Comments on: Palm OS Games Wish List 2007 http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/ Gadget reviews and news by Julie Strietelmeier and friends since 1997 Sat, 26 May 2012 21:11:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: blue http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24708 blue Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:50:16 +0000 #comment-24708 <p>Hi Mark,</p> <p>Just spent the last age writing my own shootemup game for the palm.</p> <p>As I enjoy a challenge would love to see if you like it enough to put it on your list.</p> <p><a href="http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp;jsessionid=6FA4744608DFE8320D7FAA785F7532AC?siteId=1999&platformId=1&N=96804%2034&productId=233105">TheBelt2120</a></p> <p>Regards Cat</p> <p><em>[Edited at October 11, 2008 02:52:10 AM.]</em></p> <p><em>[Edited at October 11, 2008 02:52:35 AM.]</em></p> Hi Mark,

Just spent the last age writing my own shootemup game for the palm.

As I enjoy a challenge would love to see if you like it enough to put it on your list.

TheBelt2120

Regards
Cat

[Edited at October 11, 2008 02:52:10 AM.]

[Edited at October 11, 2008 02:52:35 AM.]

]]> By: Mark Adkins http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24707 Mark Adkins Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:41:10 +0000 #comment-24707 <p>Jeez- now I have to admit to my Sudoko semi-addiction. </p> <p>I find that I play a round of Astraware Sudoku about every other day, and the daily paper version a couple times a week. I am not sure it is so much an addiction as it is getting bored with older stuff.</p> <p>I find I get a game, play the bejeebers out of it, and then regret registering it. Right now, I am getting kinds tired of Sudoku and going back to Spider Solitaire... which I was bored with before.</p> <p>I need a new addicting game. I need it NOW!</p> Jeez- now I have to admit to my Sudoko semi-addiction.

I find that I play a round of Astraware Sudoku about every other day, and the daily paper version a couple times a week. I am not sure it is so much an addiction as it is getting bored with older stuff.

I find I get a game, play the bejeebers out of it, and then regret registering it. Right now, I am getting kinds tired of Sudoku and going back to Spider Solitaire… which I was bored with before.

I need a new addicting game. I need it NOW!

]]> By: Julie http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24706 Julie Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:24:00 +0000 #comment-24706 <p>oops, Sudoku was exactly what I was thinking. My thinker isn't working too well as I have a horrible headcold... As for Sokoban, love it!</p> oops, Sudoku was exactly what I was thinking. My thinker isn’t working too well as I have a horrible headcold… As for Sokoban, love it!

]]> By: Mark Reid http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24705 Mark Reid Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:45:45 +0000 #comment-24705 <p>Julie- I believe you're thinking of Soduko, which I agree is intensely boring after two games. Sokoban involves pushing boxes around a "warehouse" maze to get them into correct position and can be quite interesting.</p> <p>Mark- When I saw Vexed mentioned in your review I went right past it because I had played it and finished it long ago. Julie's link prompted me to look again and find it has been updated a lot. Here's a link for <a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105572">Patience</a>.</p> Julie- I believe you’re thinking of Soduko, which I agree is intensely boring after two games. Sokoban involves pushing boxes around a “warehouse” maze to get them into correct position and can be quite interesting.

Mark- When I saw Vexed mentioned in your review I went right past it because I had played it and finished it long ago. Julie’s link prompted me to look again and find it has been updated a lot. Here’s a link for Patience.

]]> By: Julie http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24704 Julie Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:32:03 +0000 #comment-24704 <p>Awww now Mark, don't be a hater ;o)</p> <p>Speaking of Sokoban, anyone else out there just not see the point of that game? I mean who in the right mind finds a game to be fun that requires you to add numbers together? That is just wrong! ;o)</p> Awww now Mark, don’t be a hater ;o)

Speaking of Sokoban, anyone else out there just not see the point of that game? I mean who in the right mind finds a game to be fun that requires you to add numbers together? That is just wrong! ;o)

]]> By: Mark Adkins http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24703 Mark Adkins Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:35:43 +0000 #comment-24703 <p>Yeesh. I work my fingers to the bone sweating over a hot keyboard to do the review and post a link, but Julie gets the thanks. :-)</p> <p>Mark- I like sokoban games, and like Microban. Thanks for the reminder- it is one of the games that I have 'lost' over time. I don't like the freeware 'Traffic', but the base game play is solid. I know I have tried Patience- I'll have to look for it again.</p> <p>Thanks for the links- I'm always on the lookout for good leads! Although Aargon is not being nice for me right now- the free trials are not working for me. Such is life!</p> Yeesh. I work my fingers to the bone sweating over a hot keyboard to do the review and post a link, but Julie gets the thanks. :-)

Mark- I like sokoban games, and like Microban. Thanks for the reminder- it is one of the games that I have ‘lost’ over time. I don’t like the freeware ‘Traffic’, but the base game play is solid. I know I have tried Patience- I’ll have to look for it again.

Thanks for the links- I’m always on the lookout for good leads! Although Aargon is not being nice for me right now- the free trials are not working for me. Such is life!

]]> By: bonna http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24702 bonna Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:39:11 +0000 #comment-24702 <p>TEXT TWIST GAME</p> TEXT TWIST GAME

]]> By: bonna http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24701 bonna Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:37:41 +0000 #comment-24701 <p>Very addicting game. I got 100,000 in a few minutes with the help of a word finder :) http://marvin.mindhyve.com/wordfinder</p> Very addicting game.
I got 100,000 in a few minutes with the help of a word finder :)
http://marvin.mindhyve.com/wordfinder

]]> By: Mark Reid http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24700 Mark Reid Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:10:16 +0000 #comment-24700 <p>Thanks for the link Julie. I played Vexed many a moon ago, but it looks like it has come a long way with high-res and lots of new levels.</p> Thanks for the link Julie. I played Vexed many a moon ago, but it looks like it has come a long way with high-res and lots of new levels.

]]> By: Julie http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24699 Julie Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:42:57 +0000 #comment-24699 <p>One of my favorites is <a href="http://vexed.sourceforge.net/">Vexed</a>. It's freeware and wonderfully puzzling at times.</p> One of my favorites is Vexed. It’s freeware and wonderfully puzzling at times.

]]> By: Mark Reid http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24698 Mark Reid Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:52:09 +0000 #comment-24698 <p>For a laser/mirrors game for Palm try Aargon:</p> <p>http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&platformId=1&N=96804&productId=71476</p> <p>I've bought lots of games for the Palm, but most of my favorites are the simple freeware ones that are a lot closer to the "Zen of Palm". Astraware's titles look pretty, but they are slow to load and exit, and have poor feedback. Click on something and wait a beat for the program to respond. They work like "gasp" winmobile games.</p> <p>Currently on my Centro I have three bought games (BeCrossword, MegaGammon, and Scrabble) and six freeware gems: Microban (a sokoban game with tons of free levels), Patience (the best solitaire game for palm and it's free!), PocketBo (a great SkipBo card game clone, Puzzles (more about it below), Shisensho and Traffic.</p> <p>Puzzles is a Palm port of a collection PC freeware games called Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection with 27 separate logic puzzle type games (my favorite is Tents). You can find the Palm version here:</p> <p>http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~jharvey/puzzles/</p> For a laser/mirrors game for Palm try Aargon:

http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&platformId=1&N=96804&productId=71476

I’ve bought lots of games for the Palm, but most of my favorites are the simple freeware ones that are a lot closer to the “Zen of Palm”. Astraware’s titles look pretty, but they are slow to load and exit, and have poor feedback. Click on something and wait a beat for the program to respond. They work like “gasp” winmobile games.

Currently on my Centro I have three bought games (BeCrossword, MegaGammon, and Scrabble) and six freeware gems: Microban (a sokoban game with tons of free levels), Patience (the best solitaire game for palm and it’s free!), PocketBo (a great SkipBo card game clone, Puzzles (more about it below), Shisensho and Traffic.

Puzzles is a Palm port of a collection PC freeware games called Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection with 27 separate logic puzzle type games (my favorite is Tents). You can find the Palm version here:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~jharvey/puzzles/

]]> By: Geoff http://the-gadgeteer.com/2007/12/11/palm_os_games_wish_list_2007/comment-page-1/#comment-24697 Geoff Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:32:41 +0000 #comment-24697 <p>The Palm game scene looks pretty lonely to me after the abrupt departure of PDA Mill and their beautiful games like the GameBox casual series and Snails (a Worms clone). I'm glad, and surprised, that Astraware hasn't followed suit.</p> The Palm game scene looks pretty lonely to me after the abrupt departure of PDA Mill and their beautiful games like the GameBox casual series and Snails (a Worms clone). I’m glad, and surprised, that Astraware hasn’t followed suit.

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