Started playing a game on my mobile phone the other day called Peggle which was pre-installed. It's actually amazingly fun, and me and my girlfriend took turns to play it when I was at her house for a week.
The game was pretty fiddly, due to the phone being touch screen, and the screen isn't that big. Although it is fun, the aim of the game is to basically light up all 25 orange pegs on a map with a total of 10 balls to begin with, you can get free balls sometimes if you're lucky enough to get a big enough score in one shot or your ball happens to land in what's called the free ball basket which moves from left to right at the bottom of the screen. Sounds funky don't it? Gets better, you get 2 pegs on a map which activate powers which when hit can cause a variety of effects, like multi-ball or fireball.
Anyway enough about talking about the actual game, the whole fiddly effect caused me to wish the game was on PC, which I found out it was! You use your mouse to drop the ball wherever, and the graphics are a lot more sharp, and you can't forget the fun little sound effects you hear when the ball hits one of the pegs.
I can safely say, if I had a bunch of games like that installed on my computer, and a load of modern FPS games installed, I'd probably play the first bunch more. Reason being, is that most mainstream games nowadays are not original in my opinion, they're all about killing other soldiers of killing terrorists, or a game that looks like it's trying to be World of Warcraft which I personally think is the most boring game in the world.
I remember when I was little, and I had quite a lot of games on the Super Nintendo and the Nintendo 64, because they were all special and the game's popularity didn't effect its price. The games were all unique, about completely different things, and the controller layout was really simple to understand and didn't require much effort to get used to it at all. The shape of the cartridges too made them easy to put into a collection, without the hassle of making sure you don't scratch the back of it, or look at the bottom to find out what platform it's for.
What happened to that? I miss it.
