Sega doing PalmOS Games

Bill Kendrick writes "Sega has demonstrated a number of games for Palm OS handhelds during a keynote address at the PalmSource Japan conference. PDA Live has the scoop. The games they've made so far aren't going to be released commercially, but they're available for trial download through April."

Comments

I do palm games as well

[Anonymous Coward]

But I don't imagine this will be as useful as Astroglide.

Great!

[AgentGray]

"All your PalmOS are belong to us."

- I knew Sega was behind it all along.

Best Quote From The Site:

[stevenbee]

In Sega and Smilebit, including the software and the installation method which are opened to this HP, I do not support at all and it does not become precocious.

Gotta love Engrish!

Business Plan?

[rohar]

We can't compete with Microsoft & Sony... so let's port some TRS-80 software to a handheld.

I love Japanese -- English Translations

[caferace]

From the download site:

...please try the more interesting one right or wrong at once."

"The highly efficient library which our company developed uniquely this time and which makes drawing expression rich is included in the demonstration software introduced by the conference. the company which can develop the application of rich game development or rich power of expression -- since offer is planned like, please contact me to the following mail address about a library and application."

And finally:

"In addition, a general user -- a question [ like ] -- please understand beforehand that I cannot reply to an inquiry."

Phew...

Re:I love Japanese -- English Translations

[decipher_saint]

"The highly efficient library which our company developed uniquely this time and which makes drawing expression rich is included in the demonstration software introduced by the conference. the company which can develop the application of rich game development or rich power of expression -- since offer is planned like, please contact me to the following mail address about a library and application."

Eurika! You've found the guy who wrote my old VCR instructions, always wondered what happend to him!

Graphics cards for PDAs?

[knuu]

So, how long until NVIDIA or whoever releases a GeForce XYZ PDA Power Ultra v4 graphics cards to power the soon-to-be-announced QuakePDA 4? Sweet.. :p

Re:Oh, great...

[Rude Turnip]

"Another way to go blind!"

RTFA, they're porting games, not pr0n.

lan parties

[fabiolrs]

Hope they build a Quake clone to palm so we can all group and play it with our palms on a lan partie! :)))

damn, imagine you talking to a friend near you at a palm-lan partie: "hey, check it out, i modded my palm, it has transparent case, neon lights inside, geforce 4, and everthing else..."

The specs require more than I can supply

[sootman]

The page says the game requires "3.5 or more PalmOS(s)". I can get two instances of PalmOS running at once, *maybe* two and a half on a good day, but three and a half Palm OSs... man, that's more than I can do. They must have some really good engineers over there.