Most everyone who ever played games on one of the 8 or 16bit home computers will fondly remember the Turrican series. If you're one of those, or if you're looking for an impressive platform shooter for Linux then you'll be delighted to discover Hurrican has now been open sourced and ported to Linux thanks to Hurrican SDL!
http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.p ... n-SDL-Port
I have got it to compile and run great on my Debian laptop but I'm having problems with the graphics on my Pandaboard and it seems I'm the only person on the Pandaboard mailing list who is interested in running a few games so instead I thought I'd come here to see if anyone is interested in trying to get this running on their Pi?
Hurrican has USB joystick/pad support under the Windows version and apparently this should work under the SDL port too but I've not got that to work so please test that if you can and let us know if you get your controller to work please!