You favourite android/iphone vr game?

(Hard mode: it's good even without an external controller)

>Retro gaming means platforms launched in 2001 and earlier
>iPhone release: 2007
>First Android phone release: 2008
not retro

>>11844354 (OP)
I cannot think of a more SOVLESS way to play /vr/

>>11844363
Wasn't asking about platforms but games. By your logic any older game run on a post 2001 PC isn't retro. Emulators also exist

>>11844363
I think (>>11844396) summed it up perfectly, it's still sort of retro and on topic, a thread to discuss a way of playing retro.

>>11844379
As long as you're playing then it's not SOVLLESS at all, I find this helps me play during the day, a smartphone I'd already take with me anyways is more portable than any handheld out there for the simple fact I don't need a separate device, especially if I use the touchscreen controls instead of a controller add-on.

>>11844354 (OP)
>Favorite
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (SEGA Master System)

>Controllerless
Legend of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse (SEGA Game Gear)

>>11844354 (OP)
Surely you mean mobile PORTS of retro games?
Otherwise it's anything that can be emulated.

https://vcmi.eu/ is the peak phone game

(so basicly Heroes 3)

NetHack is the only game I've ever played where my favorite version is the smartphone one, I find it a fair bit more practical than playing on PC

>>11844625
Anything, really... games just play differently on a phone: my favourite SNES platformer is probably near unplayable on a touch screen device. Like >>11844612 said, a phone is something that's always in pocket makes it a great way to kill time on a game every now or then whether it's on a work break or in a waiting room or something. I wouldn't play on a phone at home. It's inferior yet applicable.

I'd say arcade games generally are well suited for short bursts on a phone. In this way smart phones in part revive how arcade games were played in cabinets.

(Whoop de doo; platforms change the game experience)

Also, the awkward touch controls turn Doom into a survival horror. It's probably better suited for a smart fridge.

>>11845858
What is your choice of soup, Sir?

I've played Pathos: Nethack Codex. Feel like there's something better out there...

>>11844354 (OP)
I used to play tons of Fire Emblem 7 on my first smartphone. It had toaster specs so there weren't a lot of good games it could run, and I learned the hard way that i can't play most action games worth a damn on a touchscreen.
>>11844379
Who gives a fuck? If you really want SOVL, spend a fortune on some vintage hardware and a CRT that will likely end up collecting dust.
Surprise surprise, a lot of people emulate retro games on their smartphones, and have been doing so for the past 15 odd years. For most people, just being able to play the games is more important than doing it in the most "SOVLFUL" way.

>>11844354 (OP)
Isn't that a neo geo game?

>>11846231
No, actually. It was designed and visioned by Steve Jobs for the Apple© Iphone® as a way for people™ to experience the ZEN of Golfing in everyday environments without the need to travel to golf parks. In 1995 however the Nazca corp used a quantum straw to suck the idea out of Jobs' sleeping brain and released it a year later as a NEO•GEO title, which in an ironic twist got ported to Google Play. The hole left by Nazca corp quantum straw in Steve Jobs' brain developed into a golfball sized PNET that ended up killing him in 2011.

>>11844354 (OP)
>smartphone retro
True smartphone /vr/ won’t be allowed here until 2028 at least. Nevertheless, as an emulator, it’s undoubtedly the most soulless and least ergonomic way of gaming.

>>11846316
I don't believe you

>>11844354 (OP)
carmageddon if that counts

Civilization 2 (PS1) of course.

WarioWare: Twisted! plays better on a smartphone than it does on a GBA.

>>11847424

Friendly reminder that Drastic emulator is free on Android
Probably verboten on ios