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I just installed Hero of Sparta, non-market place game for free. I swear, that's the last non-market place app I'll install on my phone. For those that are interested, url = http://www.gameloft.com/android-hd-games/?adid=147865

"Modern gaming" requires a keyboard and mouse.

For you perhaps. I've enjoyed Gameloft's Modern Combat: Sandstorm tremendously on my iPad. Played it in the back of the car, in the train, at my girlfriend's place, etc.

Sure, I've played Call of Duty with keyboard and mouse, but for me gaming is no longer strictly limited to my study at home.

"if those android game devs were deveoping on apple's platform they'd be SOL."

Um, Gameloft does make iPHone games, a lot of iPhone games, making $25 million from iPhone apps in 2009.

"I've certainly heard enough horror stories about the review process to turn me off from ever trying to sell anything on the iphone."

Sure there's a review process, but judging from how many apps make it obviously it's not bad, and with 200,000+ apps I'd be shocked if there wasn't somebody complaining about the process.

I'm sure you won't be missed, plenty of developers are becoming millionaires off iPhone apps, you don't have to be one of them. How many Android millionaires are there? After 2 years not one Android developer has made a million dollars from apps. In fact Android developers celebrate making "up to" 100k a year

Besides Android has it's own major problems, like a 24 hour return on apps: according to one Android developer, you can return any Android app for a full refund within 24 hours. Talk about fail, no wonder Android developers are broke when users can instantly download apps, use them, and then return it for a full refund and repeat the process anytime they want.

Sorry but Android is a joke, Google does not make money from Android while the iPhone is Apple's cash cow. If the iPhone vanished tomorrow Apple would be in serious pain, but if Android vanished tomorrow Google wouldn't even notice, so Apple will fight tooth-and-nail to make sure the iPhone maintains it's Jesusphone status while Google will continue to ignore Android.

Here is a playable demo to try as well. Boring game to me. :)

I wish that mobile phone service providers would realize this. [...] No way am I going to pay $10 for a game I've not seen nor heard of before.

I'll second that emotion. I just got a phone from T-Mobile, and it has a demo version of something called Midnight Pool. You can play up until someone's cleared everything but the 8-ball. The full version costs $5.99, and I'm seriously considering it. But there's no way you'd have convinced me to spend six bucks on a mobile phone game that may or may not work. My wife has downloaded a bunch of games to her phone that absolutely suck on her screen (Pac-Man, in particular, is unplayable).

I just realized something, though. We're not the target demographic. She is. *sigh*

"I'd really like to see you name some and link to them, even just 3 or 4, I'd really like to see some good examples."

http://www.glu.com/
http://www.gameloft.com/
http://www.mrgoodliving.com/
http://www.morphemewireless.com/
http://www.digitalchocolate.com/
http://www.doomrpg.com/
http://www.mobu.com/

That should get you started. Yeah, a lot of phones are still a couple of steps behind the GBA. But on the other hand I can pick up half a dozen mobile games for the price of a GBA game and I don't have to faff around switching cartridges. Both formats fit their niches.

Actually, games on different PDA's are becoming more and more advanced.

As posted elsewhere, you might want to check out TsN. They've been broadcasting Tribes 1 matches for quite some time (always with commentary, sometimes with a video stream as well...basically as you described it, with camera control done by one person, whose image is broadcast to streaming viewers), and are getting to Tribes 2 now (not video yet, that I know of).

Yes! I felt so awful about not knowing who authored that. Thanks to you (and google) I checked and it was made by a music group who are themselves called Golden Shower. Quoth joshua at memepool:
The Brazilian electronic music group Golden Shower's recent video, Video Computer System (mirrored here and here) will remind you of all the great games for the Atari 2600 VCS.