This is what I get ~ $ /usr/games/pingus --datadir /usr/share/games/pingus/data/ --fullscreen -g 800x480 Welcome to Pingus 0.7.2! ======================== data path: /usr/share/games/pingus/data/ language: English (en) font encoding: iso-8859-1 sound support: enabled music support: enabled resolution: 800x480 fullscreen: enabled Pingus: Standard exception caught!: Parse error in file '/home/user/.pingus/savegames/savegames.scm' line 0: file doesn't start with '(' ~ $ I also installed libsdl-mixer1.2 i It's a shame cos I was really enjoying it