ASCII / curses arcade style games written in Perl

My first introduction to computers started back in the 1980s when, as a kid, I enjoyed creating simple ASCII games to keep myself entertained with both the programming and playing aspects.

Back then I was using a Tandy Model 2 computer. Later, as an adult I thought it would be fun to recreate a couple of those games. In the early 2000s my favorite language and one I was teaching classes on, was Perl, and so that is the language I used.

Amazingly enough, one of my games "Perl Defense Blaster" caught the eye of Marcel Gagné who was writing articles for Linux Journal magazine, and so I got a few fun paragraphs written about it, with a nice shout-out:
Linux Journal article with PerlDefenseBlaster

Now, with more code and solutions available online, I thought it would be a good time to add it to GitHub, along with several other projects of mine from over the years.

Last I looked, it requires the Curses.pm, Term::ReadKey.pm and Time::HiRes Perl modules.

These are just simple Perl scripts, so aside from getting those dependencies installed, these scripts just need to be run with:
perl PerlDefenseBlast.pl
and the like.

This collection should have 3 separate games:

• Perl Defense Blaster

  Defend your planet from the alien invasion!
  Use the "4" and "6" keys on the number pad to move

• Perl Racer

  Vertical scrolling racing game!

• Perl Arena

  Kill the mutants!

In my eyes, these small games are finished, as they are very close to the same look and feel of what I created as a kid in the 80s. However, if we find bugs or efficiency tweaks, there's always room for improvement.
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