Google Android Gaming Round Up

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If you are looking for some games to play on your Google Android phone, but do not know which ones to go for, let this round up be your guide:

Slide Puzzle - A touch screen adaptation of the age old 15-piece sliding puzzle game. This uses the touch screen interface very well, and has some nice graphics to boot.

Snake - This game became so popular on mobile phones that when people see the game it was blatantly ripped off from, the famous Atari arcade game Centipede, they often remark upon how much it looks like Snake. However, recent developments in the history of this now famous series of arcade knock offs have seen the elegant simplicity and instant gratification of the top down, sprite based viewpoint replaced by several unplayably clunky, but rather flashy looking 3D versions of the game. Discerning gamers will pleased, therefore, to find out that the Android version is a return to the ways of old, although you may find that the trackball is a poor replacement for a joypad or joystick.

Sokodroid - The aim of this top-down 2D puzzle game is to push blue squares into holes with your square. Although this ...
... game can be played with the trackball or the touchscreen, the latter is almost impossible as you cannot place your square accurately if you cannot see it.

Solitaire - Fans of the classic Windows card game adaptation Solitaire may be disappointed to learn that this version is rendered vitually unplayable by the limitations of the touch screen device, which almost completely precludes accurate dragging and dropping.

Speed - This vertically oriented version of the classic Atari game Pong is enjoyable enough, but the touch screen is a poor substitute for the paddles used with the original TV game.

Sudoku - A couple of years ago it looked like SuDoku was going to eclipse the crossword as the number one newspaper puzzle, but things have cooled off a little since the heady days of Carol Vordemans SuDoku challenge. It can still be fun though, but not in this touch screen adaptation, as the squares are so small that you will frequently find yourself pressing the wrong areas.

Tap Tick - A rapidly advancing counter needs to be stopped by an intrepid button presser as soon as it hits a certain number, and no later. In case you were wondering, that person is you, but if you do not download this terrible game, then it does not have to be.

Tetroid - This Tetris clone does everything you would expect, although there is no display for the next piece, and the accelerometer works well as an input device, although it can take a little bit of getting used to.

Trap! - The aim the game in this touch screen version of the mobile phone gaming classic is to trap bouncing balls within as small a region of the screen as possible, without being hit by one while you are drawing a line. It is not bad, but the touch screen can be a little finicky.
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