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Mame on the Nokia N-Gage
wraggster writes "The Nokia N-Gage has now joined the club of consoles for whom the excellent MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) was ported to. Staffan Ulfberg has ported EMame over to the N-Gage - the emulator supports a mass of games."
True there are few good games out for the Ngage but I was pleased with the graphics of Red Faction, and Tony Hawk. Still, it seems quite overpriced and two games does not make for a good library.
Perhaps it would just be better to have a cheap cell phone and a gameboy advance.
One advantage of the Ngage is the bluetooth multiplayer gaming. FPS deathmatch in class!
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What everyone fails to mention are the game controls. Part of what made arcade games so great were the controls. They were (usually) at the right height, you stood in front of the machine, so you could put lots of 'body english' into the game, or stand comfortably. The buttons were big, bounced back, and just felt _Good_. What would Missle Command be without those big track balls, or Tempest with out the Spinning Knob. Remember Paperboy? Would it have been as fun if you didn't have real handlebars as controllers? I enjoy playing lots of games with a computer keyboard, but there are a few that I just can't enjoy without the real controls. a few that come to mind: Defender / Stargate had a very specific and complex control layout that I had trouble duplicating with a keyboard, Discs of tron had an unusual joystick/spinner combo, I'm sure you can think of a few of your favorites that you wish you had a game controller for.
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I have seen the various projects to bring better controls to Mame, very tempted to get at least a Mame controller. The dopest one was the guy that built a cabinet with a console that spun to give you one of three different controller options.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/
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