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-ifone/Atari (2005) -played on a Motorola 265 Summary Three old school Atari classics in one mobile package.
Old games get released on the cell phone all the time, but Atari and ifone did something smart and released three games as a single download. Asteroids, Centipede, and Combat are still fun to play in small doses and translate very well on the phone. The controls are exactly how they were for the games when they originally appeared in the arcade and the Atari consoles. The games actually seem easier to control. You don’t have to hassle with a clunky joystick, but then, sometimes the small pad on the phone is a hassle for certain games. I found it extremely easy to zip around in Asteroids and Combat. But that’s not the best thing about this three game download. The greatest thing that was done to these classics is that the game will automatically save at any time. If you’re in the middle of blasting apart asteroids and need to go do something else you can just end the game. Whenever you go back in and hit continue you’ll be in the exact same position you were in when you left. That also means that you probably forgot there was a huge asteroid headed right towards you when you left so you’ll die right away. It’s good to see that ifone knows that most people usually don’t have a lot of time to spend playing a game on a phone and included the auto save feature. I’ve said this plenty of times, but this should be a standard feature on all cell phone games, even old school games that never had a save feature before.
If you already downloaded Asteroids or Centipede before, well, you got screwed. If you haven't and want a few old Atari games on your phone, Atari Legends is the way to go.
-Shawn
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