Going through a lot of the games that are being made available for the iPhone, many of them appear to be ports or remakes of classic games. On the weekend I spent quite a bit of time enjoying a fairly good reproduction of the classic Space Invaders dubbed Space Invasion. Apparently all you need to do to make a new game is change of few letters. The port of the game is really quite accurate and faithful to the original and is well worth the dollar or two it cost me.
More importantly though, it got me thinking about the sort of games that you would want to take with you if you were going to be stranded on a desert island (not as good as the dessert island which comes with cake and ice-cream). If you had to pick one (reasonably retro) game from each genre and you were to have a permanently charged portable/mobile device – what would you take?
Personally, this is my list:
- Arcade: Space Invaders (made before I was born and still not boring?)
- Puzzle: Tetris (Good ol’ Russian goodness)
- Board Game: Monopoly (not really a computer classic, but a board game classic)
- FPS: Doom II (or Quake 1 – hard to say here…)
- RPG: Pokemon (Cos you will have a long time to catch them all, apparently…)
I would love to hear what your lists would be in the comments below.
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