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Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

February 20, 2012 – 12:39 pm | 3 Comments

Tiny Diggers has just been released on the iPad and soon the Mac computer. Here’s the details on this fun, educational game from TouchTilt Games.
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Classics On New Consoles Aren’t Always Faithful

Submitted by Paul Munn on February 19, 2007 – 2:00 pm5 Comments

Rose colored glasses beagle Classic games are turning into big business for the current generation of consoles with Xbox Live and the Nintendo Wii’s download service offering classic titles in near-perfect emulation. Just an announcement of a big-name older title coming to these online stores is enough to generate big press releases and major online buzz.

The nostalgia factor is very high, hence the rose-colored glasses, but some of the games don’t hold up upon closer inspection. Some of them are missing features, and others have had lesser-known aspects of the games lost or disabled in the translation. This has some folks unhappy.

Among the problems are the inability to save ghost data during time trials on Mario Kart 64, the removal of cheat codes from Kid Icarus, and no planned rumble support for Starfox 64 from the Wii store. On the Xbox Live Arcade side, you’ve got folks complaining that Frogger doesn’t feel quite right, Contra is an arcade port not the NES port they wanted, and ArsTechnica and other games feel the controls on the Xbox 360 controller aren’t good enough for most Arcade games.

In the end, though, the article notes that you can’t get these original arcade games that easily anymore without being able to get the original hardware, and that won’t be cheap or convenient. Most people agree that the downloadable arcade games are the next best thing, but they could be better.

Via ArsTechnica. Image from Nittany Beagle Rescue.

http://yerfatma.vox.com Tom Clancy

I do think the recent XBL ones feel slapped together. I’d like to be able to remap the controls just a little bit for my $5, please. And give me more than one level in a demo (I’m looking at you, Paperboy) or I’m not buying it at all. How do I know if it’s worth replaying if all I can do is truck through one level?
http://www.farbot.com/ Paul

It’s just silly that they don’t let you remap buttons. It should be so easy for them to add that. Honestly, they can do it now, I won’t ask for a royalty on the idea, honest.
John H.

I second the buttom remapping complaint. When using the Wiimote as a controller in VC games, for some obnoxious reason, Turbografx games map the turbo button to the B trigger button, BENEATH the controller, where it is super easy for my fingers to brush against it, often causing me to shoot at the wrong time, sometimes catastrophically.
John H.

I suspect the reason Kid Icarus’ passwords were changed that one could make them spell words pretty easily. The password checking wasn’t very good, and there are mechanisms for making almost arbitrary passwords. Thus, it was probably only a matter of time before obscene or hateful passwords began to circulate.

Okay, it’s a guess, but it’s the best I can come up with.
nacho

No kidding about the falling short on classic games. Anybody else play “Defender of the Crown” as a kid?