POSTAL1(6)

📦 version 2015.git20250526, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 postal1 — like, the manual bestie 💖

okay so you found the manual page for postal1, which lives in section 6 of the Games Manual, and honestly? we're gonna have a whole moment with it. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

postal1 — it's POSTAL 1, bestie. that's the whole name. short, iconic, no notes 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

postal1

that's it. that's the synopsis. she runs, she does her thing 🌸

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

postal1 is an isometric top-down shooter video game — and not like a new one, she's been around, she was originally published in 1997 ⭐. vintage. legendary. mother.

so the vibe is: you, the player, assume the role of the Postal Dude — a man who commits mass murder throughout the fictional town of Paradise, Arizona, because he's trying to cure what he believes to be a "hate plague" that was released by the United States Air Force 😭

that's the premise. that's the lore. the game is not subtle and neither is this manual. periodt.

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

okay so this section is gonna be fast because:

  • no option can be passed to the game on the command line.

that's it. that's the whole options section. she takes zero flags. zero. not one. the command line is a vibe, not a conversation 🙈💀

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /usr/share/games/postal1/ — the game data files live here 💖 this is where all the actual game stuff is chilling.
  • $XDG_DATA_HOME/PostalPlus/ — this is where the configuration and state for POSTAL 1 hang out. and if $XDG_DATA_HOME isn't set, it defaults to:
~/.local/share/PostalPlus/

so like, your saves and settings have a home. she's organized. she's a Capricorn ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

  • POSTAL 1 was written by Running With Scissors. 🎀 absolute legends, no cap.
  • This manual page was written by Sébastien Noel <sebastien@twolife.be>, for the Debian project — but fr fr, it may be used by others too. sharing is caring 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie, you're fully caught up 🌈

ok real talk though — the game is about a dude committing mass murder, so like, content warning forever, but the manual page was very demure, very mindful, and it's dated 2025-07-28, sourced from the Games Manual for POSTAL1(6). slay, mwah 💖💅🎀
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