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- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Weee portable games....
Pay for them like you did before...
again... - kasted, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9can someone please find a way to make homebrew games?
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I don't know about y'all, but I clicked the link expecting reviews of how well the games were ported to iPod, not the games themselves. I already know that Zuma uses unexciting 2d graphics -- I've played it on the PC (which is more or less the whole of the review, aside from the explanation of *what zuma is*, which I also already know).
In fact, all of these games are already available on other platforms, and most people have played them.
Please, give us the unique information on these titles: how well were they ported to the iPod?
The pac-man review does this well. I guess the zuma review is the main culprit. - hotsoda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5So how long before comments about "playing games for free" on Rockbox and iPod Linux show up here?
- miker71, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I want to see ports of classic 8bit micro games .....
- Klisk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It's a novelty... I wish I could have the pacman game, actually, but I don't want to shill out 5 bucks for a game I can play for free on a flash site..
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, I shelled out $5 for texas hold 'em and I think that's the last one I'll buy. They're good games (I want pacman as well) but the only time I really played games on my iPod was on a 24 hour trip, and I don't do many of those.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Honestly, I bought 4 games (Zuma, Vortex, Mah Jong, and Mini Golf).
Zuma's fun, just how it is on the PC, but you have to get a little used to the sensitivity of your iPod.
Vortex works well. It's just a little slower of game, but still fun.
Mah Jong is the best buy for me. Well worth the $5 because it has about 80 different puzzles with 3 different playing styles (Single Player, Pass-n-Play, & Emperor's Mode). Each game takes 3-5 minutes, so I've definitely gotten my money's worth.
Mini Golf is fun when there's another person to play with.
If you got $20 to spend, I'd get Mah Jong, Zuma, Mini Golf, and whatever else you'd enjoy. Vortex is too similar to Bricks for me to justify the price. - bluemist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I HATE THE IPOD BUTTONS.
They are really not suitable for game control. Take for instance the golf game. You use the scroll wheel to direct aim, and middle button to fire away right? But alas, when I try to press the middle button, sometimes it doesn't connect, because my finger would hit/attract the scroll wheel. You can't push a button and use the wheel at the same time (single input only) The aim will be off, and I would have to scroll again.
The scroll wheel is particularly annoying because you really have to be precise in the aiming direction. Sure, now you aimed properly... try lifting your finger out of the scroll wheel. Because it's too sensitive, your aim will move ever slightly... not good either.
Is it my fingers' fault or what? - Fett101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They do require way too much pressure for games. I don't understand why the other games didn't offer more control options, like this one in Bejeweled.
"In addition to touch-sensitive scrolling, required to move your cursor around to select blocks (a sub-optimal way of moving, in our view), you can lightly tap (rather than depressing) up, down, left, or right to move the selected block for a match in that direction." - NightRush, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd like to try some of these out, But I will just have to wait for the DRM to be cracked, And no, I dont want to run podzilla/rockbox..
- kabz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The click wheel isn't the greatest interface in the world, for all the hype. It's ok, but it could use being tweaked so hitting the middle button didn't often register as an up/down selection, which drives me mad when trying to select songs.
On the plus side, my 5G seems to have much better battery life than before. I have a 2 commute every Monday and I watch the MIT SICP videos, and this last Monday, they only sucked down about 1/4 of charge, rather than the 1/2 they normally do, so maybe 8 hours instead of 4 hours or so now, when playing video.
That feature makes the iPod a lot better. - Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The comma indicates that the event is occuring at a specific location. Otherwise, you're merely stating that all iPod 5G downloadable games have been reviewed, which is something the reader knew about or could have reasonably suspected already.
Without the comma, the link in the headline could technically lead to a press release stating that 5G iPod downloadable games have been reviewed. - chicagospur, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Are the games a method of making people buy more iPods after they break the click wheel playing games?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I bought Tetris, and I like it a lot so far, graphics are to the point and easy to navigate menu.
Now if they had a Mario bros or something, that'd be awesome - bbatsell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Zuma is the first and only game I've purchased so far, and I enjoy it greatly. I guess that bodes well for the others that it's near the bottom of the pile.
- cromer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One thing I don't understand is why they moved away from the raised (more bubble like) middle button. I just bought a 5.5G iPod and the middle button is completely flush with the scroll wheel (although it is a different texture which helps a little). A friend of mine has a 4G iPod and it's a lot easier to press the middle button on his without hitting the scroll wheel unintentionally since it's bubbled a little. Of course I'm coming from my old 3G iPod (four buttons on top with the horrible all-touch sensitive interface), so I'm not complaining too much.
- ravenmuffin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They don't seem to. I've often been playing Texas Hold'em while listening to hour long podcasts and it still has plenty of juice at the end.
I think the games load entirely into RAM so there's no hard drive access draining the battery (like a movie would). - kingace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hahahha, you just got OWNED.
- ThomasNewman1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I wish people would quit submitting EVERY SINGLE THING on iLounnge's main page. Yeah, it's a cool site and well written, but is no one here tech-savy enough to just go to ilounge.com and check it once a day? Come on, this is sad just to get a dig story sumbmitted credited to you. LAME.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"but I don't want to shill out 5 bucks for a game I can play for free on a flash site.."
But you can't play them on the go on your iPod (which I guess you don't have)
And let me guess, you don't want to pay for anything you can get for free elsewhere, like: Music, videos, computer software that you can all find on BitTorrent...
Come on... 5 bucks, are you that cheap? - thatgirlismine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why?
- thatgirlismine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wrong. Hard Drive spins up all the time. The iPod has a limited amount of RAM to hold textures, sounds, etc.
- inturnaround, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2What's with the extra, comma? Is someone directly addressing someone named "reviewed"?
- mrfunktastic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Amen. I've been playing zuma on my train ride commute every day for a week. Level 8-6 is the one I cannot crack. And I can't stop playing until I do!
- Broccoli, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Does anybody know if playing games will kill your battery fast?
- CptCancer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why don't they release Snood or Bust a Move? Those are perfectly suited for the ipod scroll wheel.
- breseler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Hey, I didn't invent Digg and I though the whole point was that it was a way to share news stories to a wider community - but sorry for making such a fk up for my first submission but at least I picked a current news item and not a four month old piece (when posted) about whacky iPod accessories......
http://digg.com/apple/Top_10_Strangest_iPod_Accessories_2 - kingace, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7Do we really need a review for tetris, bejeweled, etc..?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Digg this guy down, but you all know this article is mind-numbingly boring Apple fanboyism.
OMFG a review of Mahjong!!!!111oneone
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