The Wireless Arcade

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 ;)

Comments

If you are writing these games,

[Anne_Nonymous]

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.

Been here for years.

[Monthenor]

I don't know about all you gee-whiz PDA users, but my number one game of ALL time on ANY system, the one I've spent the MOST time on in my 17 years of gaming, is ZTetris3.0 for the TI-85.

It has everything this article mentioned except wireless: portability, cheap graphics, multiplayer, and the air of dignity from my sleek black calc. It is also (IMO) the greatest version of Tetris ever made.

It has gotten me through the most boring classes and the longest waits. It doesn't eat batteries like some other TI games I could mention *coughbreakoutcough*, yet it is still endlessly fast and challenging. The two-player battle mode is perfectly balanced, with all sorts of different tactics my Chemistry buddies and I developed in high school. I would seriously consider teaching a class on Tetris Theory if someone would pay me.

So I'll leave my phone in my pocket, thank you. TI has me covered.