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I had a blast spinning up J2ME Loader on my phone (it's on f-droid) and playing games I had on my Sony Ericsson W595 back in the day :) Worms, Zombie Infection
by andrepd 5y ago
I had a blast spinning up J2ME Loader on my phone (it's on f-droid) and playing games I had on my Sony Ericsson W595 back in the day :)
Worms, Zombie Infection, Sims, loads of Fishlab games, a silly GTA clone... Massive nostalgia hit
I expected it just to be the nostalgia, but actually those games hold up pretty well especially considering the limitations of the platform! Certainly they are a breath of fresh air compared to the microtransaction/ads/spin-the-wheel/spyware - ridden games for mobile platforms today.
- sen 5y agoModern mobile games are an absolute joke. Sure there’s some gems, but a vast vast majority even from the “big” names are just junk. Eg the official Tetris requires a monthly subscription to not have ads between EVERY game, other big names only let you play a single level then the rest cost money for each and every additional level, etc etc. Our “phones” are now more powerful than gaming PCs from not that long ago, and could easily play plenty of proper PC and console games from a few generations back, and yet the mobile gaming industry is basically just a lucky dip buried in a landfill.
- contriban 5y agoThe stores should finally label “free” apps for what they are: adware, subscription-based, time-limited demo, … I dream of returning to a free category that is actually free, or with a reasonable amount of advertising. Apple, which so much “focus” on quality they still won’t reject absolute user-hostile junk.
- mekkkkkk 5y agoMobile games are indeed 90% crap cash grabs and dark patterns. But given the absolutely immense amount of mobile games available today, those 10 remaining percent still contains an insane amount of good games.