We'll be adding both Smartphone and Handheld gaming fantasy ports now, ranging from the old to the brand new.
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Ports.
First up some stray lambs from last time.
Azure Dreams. Snes
Konami takes on the rogue alike with this anime take on the genre. We actually liked this for PS1 and would like to see a simpler sprite version of this. Tame Monsters and raise them to fight alongside you in the Monster tower, out of battle you can use you stuff you brought back to raise your town up from the backwater it is to a fine city. You could also date the girls in town, including the creepy library owner who reads your memory card Otacon style.
Mighty Pang. PS1 Saturn.
One of the last CPS2 games and the last Pang game for a long time (magical Michael came out 8 years later). Would love to see a nice version of this as it never made it to a home console and looking at Wikipedia they never released anything for Saturn.
NDS Games
Though coughing up blood now, the NDS has been both a success and criminally under exploited. There are billions of mediocre cash ins for it involving pretending to be a small girl and poking horses with styluses.
That or ports of hidden object games and lacklusterBbejewelled clones including a not very good version of Popcaps cash cow. Here are a few games I'd love to see for the wonder box.
Cannon Fodder.
War has never been so much fun, so said the old Amiga game. Leading a pack of small soldiers to glory, trying not to get killed was one of the Amigas highlights. Developed by Sensible Software, who would go onto make a sequel before abandoning it to some no mark Russians to piss all over the series for a shoddy PC sequel. We would love to see this being ported to the DS along with using the stylus for controlling your troops.
Senisble Soccer, Saturn / NDS / iPad
Which leads to this, I don't want Fifa and its official names, we would love a port of the Original Snes ISS pro before it became Pro Evil (complete with Dog / Referee transformation please) and as a European we certainly want this. Tiny little footballers with leagues of made up players, funny names and squads, and best of all gameplay. I can see this working on either Saturn (with its sprite handling) or iPad best thanks to its larger resolution screen. I would love a DS port too as that would be cool.
Elite 2 Frontier.
Possibly what we have been craving for all along. This is the premier Amiga space trading game of all time, true the combat is broken, but its got an autopilot now and a massive universe to explore and above all tense gameplay. Do you grade up your ship or do you spend cash on repairs and max out your space on imported veg to flog onto mining worlds. It was an impressive job on the amiga and would love to see it be replicated for the DS. Closest thing is Platinum games Infinite Space a space drama that plays a bit like the games but also more like a strategy game.
Romancing SaGa 1-3
We did gate some old Gameboy remakes for NDS but the SNES games would have worked well on the NDS. Also known for being rock hard, these RPGS took no prisoners and would love to see them remade with the SaGa 2 engine.
Squigs.
A PD version of columns from an old Amiga Power disk, and possibly the only thing here that would stand a realistic chance of a Remake. It was fun and had a rescue mode where you had to get down to a lone squig and rescue it.
Vandal Hearts. We love this more than is Humanly possible especially the intro song which still haunts us now. Unlike everthing I've added here this was being remade for DS but I suspect is long since cancelled, a shame as it was shaping up to be quite nice.
PSP
Still with a big following in Japan, the only game I can think of releasing may make it as a PSOne classic release like Xenogears did.
Saga Frontier 1+2
These actually work as Popsloasder games but would love to see a proper remake of both the two PS One games.
Blackberry.
Finally we'll finish up with some dregs for the Acorn Electron of smartphones. Whereas the playbook seems to get all the emulator love and its true that all its games are substandard knock offs of original titles, we would love to see two things for the business phone.
Sunvox.
This is not a game rather a modular tracker that is ported to about a million mobile systems. We would love to see this here simply because the only alternative is a relentlessly shit Kiss creator thing that reminds me of the bastard son of Music 2000 with in app purchasing and a crippled nun. Come on fuckberry, it would work, your curve phones have proper keyboards so this would work and would give the kids something to do rather than message on BBM or play crap knock offs.
Finally an emulator, anything, even a ropey NES emulator for your phones. Though this would require it to not be signed by Blackberry and be open source. Once you do that and have an unofficial store I think it would be much better.
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