I recently read an article about an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that was similar to Duck Hunt. The game has been taken down due to licensing issues. You know, Nintendo owns the rights to this game. There is another application similar in nature to Duck Hunt still available on the iPod Touch and iPhone platforms.
How does this happen? I assume there some sort of QA to make sure nothing copywritten gets through. It makes sense for it to be taken down, but why was it allowed up in the first place?
This brings me to my next point: GABO
According to another article I read, a simulation game called Gabo was canned by Apple because it was “unpleasant.” Yoot Saito, the developer, makes pretty good games. He is responsible for Seaman! The game is quite possibly one of the most imaginative projects on the Dreamcast system. The concept is that you have to raise this fish-man thing from a tadpole into an amphibian. Along the way, you use your microphone to talk to him and teach him to say things. Gabo is effectively the same thing, except it’s raising a caveman.
Or would’ve been, rather.
This is why I don’t think the iPhone or iPod Touch will ever be viable gaming platforms. They just don’t know what their doing, it seems. You can put up copyright games, but God forbid you attempt to put up a game the features some creativity!
Not to say there aren’t any good games on the iPlatforms. There’s a handful of games I can think of that have some good potential.
There’s something fundamentally wrong here.
