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Old-School Games Reborn on the iPhone

by Lee Bains on January 3, 2009 at 02:02 PM


With the success of the Nintendo Wii's straight-forward games, and the recent wave of 8-bit nostalgia, it is only fitting that the iPhone -- possibly the vanguard of popular personal technology -- is now offering a wide selection of classic games, as USA Today points out.

Among the retro games available for download on the iPhone are 'Super Monkey Ball,' 'Tetris,' 'Pac-Man' and -- as we mentioned earlier -- 'SimCity.'

USA Today reviews one particularly intriguing game known as 'I Love Katamari,' in which a user rolls a ball of junk around various landscapes, continuing to accumulate more and more random items as the ball snowballs into mammoth proportions. Using the iPhone's 'accelerometer,' the gamer controls the direction of the ball by tilting the iPhone one way or another.

Could it be said that all this nostalgia for the tech of yore says something about the persistent evolution of popular technology? Could it be that video games struck the ideal balance between technological appeal and good old-fashioned enjoyment fifteen years ago? Or could it be that, just as we continue to listen to Elvis and read Dickens, we'll continue to go back to those great games of a bygone era? [From: USA Today]

Tags: classics, retro

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