iPhone Games - Stealing from history??!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:54 pm

I'd like to take a fun game from our past and maybe "port" it to the iPhone.

The first thing I thought of was "Lemonade Stand." Well, someone already did that.

Then I thought of "Hammurabi." Well fuck me, someone did that, too. (Though nobody seems to like the version that was created, so maybe I'll do that anyway.)

I think someone owns the IP for Oregon Trail, and I'd rather grab something abandoned.

Can you guys think of anything? I guess the only things that come to mind, as far as criteria goes, are:

- Very simple to implement
- Not obviously owned by a company.

Yes, I could make my own game from scratch, blah blah, I'd rather find the source and port something my first time out. It costs $99 to be part of Apple's development network, which is hilarious in its own right, so I'd be releasing this on Cydia, which only has about 40 entries in their "Games" section. (Cydia is the alternative to the App Store, for those people who have their phones in jailbreak mode.)

Bugs · Post by **Bugs** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:42 am

Xenophobia!

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:57 am

The first two I came up with, "Rogue" and "Eliza", have apparently already been done. I'll have to go dig through my old, OLD disks and do some brainstorming. When I think of old PD games I think of card games like blackjack and whatnot, um, what else ... horse racing?

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:37 am

"want some rye" Tapper

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:51 pm

Yeah, seriously. Rogue and Eliza would be clutch, but I think a million nerds had the same idea as I.

I can't believe that there are only FORTY games in the Cydia section. What a way to get great exposure!

Christ, maybe I ought to move Creeping Maw from a possibly-made Vectrex game to an iPhone one.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:51 pm

I thought I had it -- TRON Light Cycles -- and then I found this.

Maybe you could dig through the old Atari 2600 library and see if there's anything that hasn't been ported yet.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:01 pm

CIRCUS ATARI IT IS!!!

Actually .... Circus Atari it is?

That is a good idea, since I don't think Stella's made it to the iPhone yet.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:09 pm

OH MOTHERFUCKERS

That's a screenshot of Clownce, for the iPhone. $0.99.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:08 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: OH MOTHERFUCKERS

Hunt the Wumpus?

Night Driver?

Bruce

ChainGangGuy · Post by **ChainGangGuy** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:12 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Christ, maybe I ought to move Creeping Maw from a possibly-made Vectrex game to an iPhone one.

I still believe.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 4:18 pm

RobB, you seriously need to write a text adventure game for the phone. Man, talk about distracted driving. Start simple, maybe three puzzles and see how it goes over. Maybe a whole new way to deliver the art of writing back to the masses.

I only assume that these games are freely available to all who want them, without hacking or unlocking or anything high on the learning curve.

Anyway, it's just an idea.

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