09-09-2005, 02:01 PM
Older games are almost always better. Jumping on mushrooms who hurt you from the side but not below? Collecting rings and bouncing on strangely placed springs? Hell yeah. Games these days are so obsessed with making money and they have the resources (both in the abilities of the devices and the money behind them) to put zero thought into a new game and hide that fact in shiny graphics and other features.
Here's my list of wingames:
zsnes: a SNES emulator. There's lots of other emulators too, just google "emulator". To get ROMs you can look around google (try "abandonware") or the filesharing nets (Direct Connect has a copy of a torrent of every NES ROM ever floating around; could probably find it on Torrent sites if you tried hard enough)
Marshmellow Duel - a NES game I think. Google it, you can probably find ROMs
Dink Smallwood - An RPG made by fellow geeks complete with stupid (and funny!) humour and pixellated graphics. It was the most fun I've ever had in an RPG. It also comes with a level editor and you can download other people's levels to play new games once you finish the default one.
Super Smash Brothers on N64
Starfox on N64
SFCave - you've probably seen clones of this, but it _is_ the original, this guy actually came up with a new game (and what's more, the first ever release was for PalmOS!). You have a ribbon and you are in a cave. You have to avoid obstacles coming at you. Holding the button goes up, letting go goes down. Oh, and the cave shrinks. Is win.
(and to respond to the question: no I don't have the problem because I don't game. I hack my Palm and play with sounds for amusement)
Here's my list of wingames:
zsnes: a SNES emulator. There's lots of other emulators too, just google "emulator
Marshmellow Duel - a NES game I think. Google it, you can probably find ROMs
Dink Smallwood - An RPG made by fellow geeks complete with stupid (and funny!) humour and pixellated graphics. It was the most fun I've ever had in an RPG. It also comes with a level editor and you can download other people's levels to play new games once you finish the default one.
Super Smash Brothers on N64
Starfox on N64
SFCave - you've probably seen clones of this, but it _is_ the original, this guy actually came up with a new game (and what's more, the first ever release was for PalmOS!). You have a ribbon and you are in a cave. You have to avoid obstacles coming at you. Holding the button goes up, letting go goes down. Oh, and the cave shrinks. Is win.
(and to respond to the question: no I don't have the problem because I don't game. I hack my Palm and play with sounds for amusement)