A thousand games for the iPhone
I used to love playing those old (now retro) style games. You know, those point-and-click adventure games like Day of the Tentacle, Larry, Monkey Island, Police Quest, Kings Quest, Loom, Freddie Pharkas, Full Throttle and lots lots more. The graphic quality was good (i really love the cartoonisch style), nice music and excellent gameplay. Next to the adventure games there were really good level based games like The Lost Vikings (this game was really terrific), .. (ok, i was more into the adventures).
Yesterday i was checking the Apple App Store and saw the kind of games that are being sold for the iPhone today. They’re just like (or actually not as good as) the games i mentioned above. Although game engines (like Lucas’s SCUMM) are available for the iPhone (but unfortunatly not in in the App Store) almost all of the above games are still licence restricted so technically you’re not allowed to play them unless you’ve bought an orginal copy back in the early 90′s. This is a request to all the SIERRA and Lucas Art like companies out there, either sell your games online for a dollar so we can play them on our iphone (which is a brilliant platform for these kind of games) OR drop the licence and contribute to the world!
Same goes ofcourse for all the brilliant games (more important, gameplay) created for the C64 and MSX systems in the 80′s.
