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The Wireless Arcade

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the waitin-in-line dept.

KeelSpawn writes "Techreiview has an article on Wireless gaming through handhelds. Quoted from article: "They don't have fancy 3-D graphics, but video games for handheld devices stand poised to capture a huge U.S. market. Why? Because we all have to wait." There are a lot of "Small" games that could be great time killers in lines if ported to cel phones, and made multiplayer, and cheap. Perhaps something like the Game Boy's Pokemon Crystal, but with hooks to play perhaps the people within X miles of you ;)

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  1. Great! by MacGod · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wonderful! Now, not only do we have people yakking all day walking down the street on their phones, they're alsso playing Pokemon! Just when you thought big-city life couldn't get more annoying, comes the daily squeek of "Pikachu!" from a hundred thousand cell phones!!

    FP BTW

    --
    "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one " -Albert Einstein
  2. If you are writing these games, by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    please include a pause button. The first person who holds up my grocery line while he finishes up a level will get beaten to death with a baguette.

  3. pewp by Vodak · · Score: 3, Funny

    oh boy the cell phone makes get to play "how many version of tetris can thier possibly be"

    then one of the cell phone makers is gonna come up with a version of tetrinet so you can curse at your phone for lossing to someone with wit teh h4x on thier phone.

  4. And, yea, I thought I asked you to mow the heavens by dsandler · · Score: 1, Funny

    "But Dad! I'm Bejeweling!