There is such a small text window, playing / reading would be tedious.

Well, in emptriv I have a tiny font that kinda mimics the player's smallest font. It's like 5 points high so I think it works out to 5 lines high by maybe 30-40 characters wide. I implemented a paging thing with the real long trivia questions too, that seemed to work okay. I think it could actually work!

Maybe the buttons for some navigation...

Yeah, but there's some problems... First, the games all have secondary directions like northeast and southwest, plus they have "up" and "down." I think any kind of navigation thing would have to be done from a little popup menu or something. Not enough buttons for all the directions.

Throw in the fact that they're all based on typing in words ("look grue") and I think you'd *really* need an IR keyboard to make things work.

Now, a game like Legend of the Red Dragon would be a different story... I've dreamed of LoRD on the Empeg, but I think the Linux port was rumored but never actually done.