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Thank you so much for the article!
You are definitely better at playing it because I didn't get so far. I'm guessing that PenguinPlay can now cause some issues in Candy Cruncher because this website was closed.
I played the full version of Candy Cruncher 16 years ago, and it's one of the most addictive games for Linux. I was easily losing track of time with Candy Cruncher. I eventually decided I'm not going to play it anymore. I ran it last year, but I decided to play a few times. I didn't want to get stuck playing for hours. Losing motivated me to improve my score. It was too much fun for me.
It's a great game, and it was even more entertaining with PenguinPlay. You could compare your scores with those of other users. This feature wasn't available for Windows and Mac users.
The most interesting part is that the box version of Candy Cruncher was available exclusively for Linux users. The box version of Candy Cruncher for Windows and Mac doesn't exist. Additionally, LGP had been regularly publishing new patches only for the Linux version for many years.
You can also find the PowerPC and Sparc versions on the CD, which is only available for Linux users. You can probably play it on PlayStation 2 (and other PowerPC computers), which is amazing, but I don't have this console. It's the only Linux game where you can see Sparc on the box in the system requirements.
Linux had this advantage over Windows that commercial games weren't limited to x86/x86-64. Companies like Loki and LGP were investing time in porting some games to Alpha and Sparc. Interestingly, Microsoft never tried to port any commercial games, even for Windows NT PPC/DEC Alpha. LGP was one of the five companies that published commercial games for PowerPC. Of course, I have never heard about the company that ported a commercial Linux or Windows game to MIPS.
I was disappointed seeing a piece of paper instead of a manual. LGP also didn't include any manuals on the CD.
Lastly, Candy Cruncher for Linux was a much better product back then than the digital versions for Windows and Mac.
@Hamish, you should try playing Madblox! for Linux. I keep it on my Desktop, and play it when other games start to get too annoying for me.