The last article gave a rundown of three of these classic games available for the iPhone, counting down to fifteen. Here are four more.

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2. In the last article, I talked about how
the perception of video games as
an entertainment medium has
drastically changed over the years.
This is largely due to the fact that a
large chunk of its core audience – who
used to be kids back then – are now
all grown up, leading to an expansion
of technical innovations and narrative
sophistication in modern games.
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3. Another effect of these gamers having already grown up is that
oftentimes, in between bouts of the graphical realism of Call of Duty:
Modern Warfare 3, the interactive storytelling ambitions of Heavy Rain,
and the seamless gameplay-to-story-to-gameplay integration
of Uncharted 3, they yearn for the bygone days when gaming just meant
frenetic unforgiving action and high scores.
Thus was born retrogaming, which as the name implies, is the
playing of classic video games whose original incarnations are
for the most part no longer available; at least not as widely as
they once were.

4. The last article gave a rundown of three of these classic games available
for the iPhone, counting down to fifteen. Here are four more.
Chrono Trigger (SNES, 1995)
• Hailed as the greatest JRPG of all time, Chrono Trigger is
every bit deserving of the distinction. Gameplay-wise, it
deviates from the usual formula by doing away with
random enemy encounters; meaning that no longer were
players bogged down by a fight every five seconds. If players
saw enemies ahead and didn’t think they were up to the
challenge, they could avoid them outright. While this
doesn’t sound like much, it actually gave more depth to
strategies (and strategies are what JRPGs are all about),
especially when added to timer-based actions that sped up
fights, and combo moves that utilized all player characters
in a party.
• If gameplay was all that greatness would be based on,
then Chrono Trigger would already be a shoe-in. The game,
though, was more than just that. It featured an engaging
time-travel story, where actions in any given area and time
would have great consequences in other places and eras.
Such complications necessitated the game having twelve
different endings, depending on players’ actions. In the 16-bit
days, this storyline complexity was largely unheard of.

5. The last article gave a rundown of three of these classic games available
for the iPhone, counting down to fifteen. Here are four more.
Duke Nukem 3D (PC, 1996)
• The first-person shooter Duke Nukem 3D wasn’t
revolutionary by any stretch from a gameplay
standpoint. It did, however, widen the appeal of FPSes
beyond the hardcore Doom and Wolfenstein 3D fanbase.
It was also famous for its crass humor and All-
American bad-ass attitude which were almost
nonexistent in mainstream games at the time.
• The success of this game prompted its developers to want
to create a sequel that would match, or even
top, Duke3D’s reception. Called Duke Nukem Forever,
the sequel’s title couldn’t have been more apt: The
perfectionist attitude of the games’ chief
designer, George Broussard, lengthened Duke Forever’s
development time to fifteen years, with many gamers
and critics commenting that the game was taking
(*ehem*) forever to finish. To add insult to injury, once it
was finally released last year, it was met with less than
warm reception, its technology and game design being
already dated by then.
• Never mind all that, though. The iPhone gets the
acclaimed Duke Nukem 3D, and that’s all you really
need to know.

6. The last article gave a rundown of three of these classic games available
for the iPhone, counting down to fifteen. Here are four more.
Earthworm Jim (Genesis, 1994)
• At a time when platformers were a dime a
dozen, Earthworm Jim stood out from other
run ‘n’ gunners (basically platformers with
guns) by employing hand-drawn sprites,
fluid animation, and Ren & Stimpy-style
humor.
• Those flourishes have served it well,
maintaining its classic status even until now.
Of course, it also didn’t hurt that it had
exemplary gameplay.
• The game's continuing popularity led to an
excellent sequel (along with two lackluster
ones), a TV show, and now an iPhone port.

7. The last article gave a rundown of three of these classic games available
for the iPhone, counting down to fifteen. Here are four more.
Final Fight (arcade, 1989)
• Although it was Double
Dragon that ushered in the golden
age of beat ‘em ups in 1987, Final
Fight was nonetheless a great game
in its own right, further popularizing
the genre.
• A side-scrolling cooperative
multiplayer fightfest, its popularity
was no doubt also boosted by the
fact that the game’s events took
place in the same universe as
Capcom’s other franchise, Street
Fighter.

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