I’ve even been playing Grand Prix Story while I’ve typed this out. OK, so maybe I don’t like the crap ones as much, but the whole experience of stumbling across something truly brilliant is worth the occasional rubbish one. It’s a little bit like a tapas menu of various flavours.Įssentially, this is a love letter to iOS games. If it’s a load of old tripe Unpleasant Horse then it’s gone, deleted, whacked and I move onto the next. Sure, we still get hidden classics sent in for preview/review but the iOS platform recaptures a time when I don’t fully know what I’m getting until I’ve paid the paltry fee and played it first hand. There’s no doubting we’re in a purple patch of great games, but there are very few surprises these days.
Now we’re told what we’re supposed to like before we’ve even had a chance to play it for ourselves. The genuine thrill of finding something new to pour countless hours into has deserted me in recent years. I also spent £1 on the awful Yogi Bear, so my success rate was a bit of a mixed bag.īut it was listlessly combing shops for anything that would run on my Spectrum that added to the overall experience of gaming and that ultimately got me hooked.įast forward to the Sega Megadrive (I promise, there is a point to all this) and even though I’m reading games magazines my next purchases are based on word of mouth from my school chums rather than relying on the incessant in-your-face, LOOK AT ME, advertising of today’s big hitters.Ībove: Forgot to say I can also play while riding a bikeīesides the App Store’s Game of the Week recommendations I still use the tried and tested methods of old – flicking through the game section until something tickles my fancy or listening to my co-workers/random folk on Twitter for advice. For example, one day I found bomb-raiding classic, Harrier Attack for 80p and spent hours playing it. I’d spend ages flicking through the boxes of cassettes for nothing in particular, but would always come across something of interest. My uncle used to take me to computer, and sometimes charity shops, to look for games. A time of innocence – when all games had an equal chance and bed wetting was the norm and not just cause for making an immediate doctor’s appointment. It reminds me of my Spectrum days as young boy. Above: Chair's Infinity Blade is as triple A as iOS games get and it really is excellent
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