Well, folks, here we go. It’s the last day of the decade, and to mark the passing of this momentous day (well, alright, semi-momentous-ish), let’s take a look at a couple of videos that show absolute top-of-the-line, bang-up-to-date mobile phones running some old school games. Yes, I know this has nothing to do with celebrating the new year, but I don’t care.
First up is my choice for ‘phone that will, without doubt, be the next phone I buy’. You should know by now what it is, I go on about it enough; yup, it’s the HTC HD2, seen here running what was one of the best fighting games released on the PS1, Tekken 3:
‘Eeeeeeee, by ‘eck, that doesn’t ‘alf bring back memories, although I always favoured playing as Eddie Gordo, since I was, as accurately described by someone who actually was good at Tekken, a ’sneaky, button-mashing git’.
And second on the roster is what stands out as one of the most advanced phones currently on the market: the Maemo-powered, utterly unique, Nokia N900. Only here, we see it playing a game from way back in the mists of time (well, 1996, to be exact). It’s the first person shooter with the twisted sense of humour (as well as pig monsters and strippers), that sparked controversy, and even got banned in Brazil: it is, of course, Duke Nukem 3D.
Whoa, that brings even more memories, that does! And since we’ll be waiting long past the heat death of the universe for Duke Nukem Forever (the very epitome of vapourware, that is), this is about as good as it’s going to get in the groovy world of the Duke. Honestly, 12 years to make a sequel, since it was announced in 1997, and they still haven’t come up with anything?
Now consider how much mobile phones have evolved in 12 years, to the point where they can comfortably play Tekken 3 and Duke Nukem 3D, without breaking a sweat. Yeah. No wonder people call it Duke Nukem ForNever…
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