Why? Not because of its touch-screen. Not because of its full internet access nonsense. But because it now has what is effectively the Star Wars Arcade game as an app. Look at the video, which I purloined from Agent M! It has blowing up TIE Fighters! Shooting guns in the trench! Dodging those large bars that didn't appear anywhere in the movie! And now, for the first time, dodging Darth Vader's shockingly inaccurate laser shots (should've used the Force, motherfucker)! Apparently the game isn't available quite yet, but suffice it to say, it's all I ever wanted to do with a phone. This is truly the golden age, my friends.
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Ah crap now I don't have an excuse not to have an ipod touch/iphone.
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Captain Draino said: Call me an old-fashioned 39 year old fuddy-dud. But what happened to just needing a phone to just make phone calls? -------------------------- Who makes phone calls anymore?
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The difference between BlackBerry and Iphone is simple. The BlackBerry is your 40 yr old career secretary who gets ALL the work done simply and efficiently. Your Iphone is the 21 yr old gorgeous supermodel personal assistant who only works half the time and does a "okay" job, but since she's hot you ignore that. I'm sticking with my BlackBerry and keeping my Ipod Touch around for sheer entertainment and games like this one when I'm waiting for interview subjects to show and sitting on hold. Thanks for featuring this and/or stealing it from Ryan hahaha.
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I've got NES, SNES, Genesis and N-64 emulators on my Android phone that'll do me fine.
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Yes you may be able to get this for your iphone in the future (and you get the bonus of dealing with AT&T's craptacular network coverage, and insurance logic, also no picture messaging, or tethering with a laptop (both of which can be done from blackberry, or windows mobile devices) if you have to have the game get the ipod touch, or better still a PSP/PSP go which has better controlsers, Star Wars Battle front, and the upcoming battlefront III which appears to be lightyears ahead of this.
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Here's the info from Star Wars.com: http://www.starwars.com/games/videogames/news20091022/index.html
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This is a fake, they simply placed a hollow image of the iPhone over a prerecorded clip from an actual game and synced the motion. Sorry guys.
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I have to get this. Seeing the video reminds me of feeding tokens into arcade version at Chuck E Cheese back, when that place still had real games for kids and watered down beer for the parents. Ah early 1980s I love you so.
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I love my iPhone, and I game on it quite frequently these days, although some games just don't work well with a touch screen. There's also Doom Classic, Ace Combat Xi and a new Ghouls 'n' Ghosts coming to the iPhone soon. I got Rock Band the other day but I thought the song selection was really dull.
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Ok, that looks pretty good but goddamn it I hate that fucking phone. It turns it's owners into unbearable "Ooooh I have an app for!" twats. Oh, you have an app that lets your phone do something every fucking phone has been able to do since 2005? WELL DONE YOU!
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@ Dacshiggy: Are you calling He-Man? Because after reading FuryOfFirestorm's rendition of a call to He-Man, you just gotta call it! If you do, please share with all of us how that call went down.
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@ Zadl: Well, at least you're making a few calls on it. ;P
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This is all we need, more inconsiderate fuckers talking on their cell phones when they should be concentrating on flying their goddamned X-wings. And I agree with Captain Draino... the only entertainment I need on my phone comes from the other end of a 900 number.
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@Captain Draino - Well, I'm a hip young 41 year old and I LOVE MY IPHONE! Wooohoo! Best damn thing I have EVER purchased. I get to watch my news shows via podcast while I work, I play games on it, surf the web, and occasionally make phone calls. I've even ordered parts from it when my shop's intartoobs were down, using it for business as well as pleasure. I have yet to have any complaints about it, or the battery life (it lasts me all day of pretty consistent use while being hooked to bluetooth stereo headphones and playing video.) I will be getting this game when it's available, and I'll be playing it in-between playing Rock Band, X-Plane, and Katamari Damaccy. All on my iPhone, which is controlling my iTunes library and acting as a remote for my TV. Yeeehaw! And I occasionally make calls with it.
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Big deal, they put an N-64 game on the iPhone. This is not advancement.
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This is all we need, more inconsiderate fuckers talking on their cell phones when they should be concentrating on flying their goddamned X-Wings.
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If you want a really good portable device TO PLAY GAMES then I suggest the PSP. Carry on.
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If I didn't live in the hind end of space where cell-phone service is more of a half forgotten myth I'd get one.
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Holy mother piss bucket. I just beat the zombie killin' game I downloaded. Now I might have something new to try out. Draino: I see your opinion, and definitely would have agreed with you about two years ago. A phone is for talking. Computer's are for texting. Cameras are for photos and video. And the iPhone was just a damn expensive toy. What finally changed my mind was realizing that for all the practical things I do (snap photos and video regularly, check email on the go and make calls), having that all as one bundle just seemed to make sense. And when my Razr's screen shat out on me after 5 years of loyal service, figured I'd just upgrade (for many of the benefits that eVula mentioned). The games are really just an added bonus for killing time while videos are rendering or I need to kill a quick five minutes. Back to the topic: I'm eyeing my x-wing model on desk. I really want to blow the shit out of some Tie-Fighters now.
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cant wait, so glad I got an iPhone on Sunday!
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Finally, a use for my phone!
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Captain Draino: you might have more of a point if all the other abilities of the iPhone (or, more specifically, of smartphones in general) came at the expense of making phone calls. The ability to check the weather, identify what song is playing, find out where I am (and get directions to where I'm going), look up movie times, add movies that people mention to my Netflix queue, check to see what's playing on TV (faster than going to the TV Guide channel)... these are all things that I regularly do with my iPhone. It's very handy.
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@tvtastegood Granted it doesn't have the developer support of an iPhone but it's not like there aren't good games available for the Blackberry. I'm quite pleased with having Megaman III and Mr. Driller as time wasters on my blackberry.
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I had been wondering what kind of phone I should switch up to. There is no question now.
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Figures, just another reason to pick up an iphone, but alas my wireless carrier doesn't have the iphone and I'm locked in a contract. Guess I will have to live with a blackberry and brickbreaker.
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Ironically you can not finish the trench run with out having to recharge the battery in the iphone. P.S the iPhone does not win, even with this game it is still a pice
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Call me an old-fashioned 39 year old fuddy-dud. But what happened to just needing a phone to just make phone calls? I would never own one of these gadgets. Yes, that's right. I called it a gadget! All this extra shit on these phones is just ridiculous to me. NOTICE: I said TO ME!! That's so you know that I recognize and respect your opinion of what a phone should and shouldn't do. The rest of you geeks text away and keep fingering your iPhones. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to relax in my rocking chair and take a much needed nap.
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