@KommaChameleon phone games are bullshit. It’s honestly insulting how, in the 11 years of smartphones that we’ve had, gaming on them maybe had a couple spikes of brilliance surrounded by generally utter crap and the business model around them seems dedicated to keeping it that way

@KommaChameleon i love games. I love all kinds of consoles and systems and indie games and big games in so many genres. handheld, traditional console, and some PC gaming. yet the game I’ve played the most on my phone is solitaire by a mile

@poss_bot yeah... plus the whole app-ocalypse thing (iOS demanding 64 bit apps and a reapproval for everything) means the back catalogue is pretty weak.

Also Candy Crush has been the top grossing game for about six years. Healthy marketplace~

@KommaChameleon oh yeah. All the cave shmup ports are gone :(

@poss_bot REST IN PEACE BUG PRINCESS

@KommaChameleon to top it all off, many modern cave games are hell to emulate and they seem to have given up on home ports altogether!

@KommaChameleon i don’t even know what the latest dodonpachi game LOOKS like and it’s been out for like... awhile now i think

@poss_bot I’ve been thinking about this. We’re at a weird point in time where the xbla/virtual console optimism is gone and those marketplaces are being shuttered. We lost, again, stuff that we had found. And because of the emulation difficulty, there’s plenty of 360/ps3 games that might just end up forgotten

@poss_bot (plus also Certain Companies are either uninterested in keeping their legacy titles in public consciousness or actively make them hard to get in convenient formats so that nostalgia becomes stronger than authentic new experiences)

@poss_bot My favorite niche on mobile are digital board games. That’s one area where the focus on touchscreens has brought us a lot of great conversions that probably wouldn’t otherwise exist, and push notifications make a lot of sense for correspondence play.

But these days you can’t really even find clever arcade experiences that aren’t riddled with ads and upgrade loops.