What Game Are You Playing Right Now?

~~[MERIT]~~ · 01-30-2019, 02:21 PM

Got my son an Amazon Fire 7 tablet for Christmas. Been looking for some good games that he can play that don't require Wi-Fi. Any Suggestions?

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-30-2019, 02:23 PM

I don't think I can even mention any tablet games. I'd be in trouble if I was forced at gunpoint.

debaserr · 01-30-2019, 02:26 PM

You could go the emulation route and get a bluetooth controller.

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-30-2019, 02:27 PM

If tablets can do emulators, the sky's the limit!

Unitron · 01-30-2019, 02:40 PM

Assuming tablets aren't too different from smartphones, you could do this:

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-30-2019, 02:50 PM

As someone who used floppydisks back when it was the standard, I'm absolutely not feeling a craving to go back to that!

They were slow as hell and had far too little storage capability. First time I finally got to use USB memory sticks instead, I felt very grateful for technological progress.

~~[MERIT]~~ · 01-30-2019, 03:00 PM

I remember starting college and paying like $30-35 USD for a 512 MB flash drive and thinking that it was the tits.

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-30-2019, 03:07 PM

Having spent years being limited to 1.44 megabytes per disk, even 10 megabytes would have been amazing to me in the 90's.

Unitron · 01-30-2019, 03:17 PM

I find it more amusing that you can even do that in the first place, and leave it to LGR to be the one to do that.

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-30-2019, 03:22 PM

Pointless old-tech geekery can have it's charm. Last year, I installed Windows 3.1 in DosBox just to **** around with it, so I'm not above stuff like that. I also watch LGR a rare time now and then.

01-30-2019, 02:26 PM	#11633 (permalink)
debaserr eat the masters Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 5,470	You could go the emulation route and get a bluetooth controller. __________________ Last.FM

01-30-2019, 02:40 PM	#11635 (permalink)
Unitron Paragraph President Join Date: Sep 2018 Location: Burning Star Posts: 837	Assuming tablets aren't too different from smartphones, you could do this: __________________ Last.FM RYM

01-30-2019, 03:17 PM	#11639 (permalink)
Unitron Paragraph President Join Date: Sep 2018 Location: Burning Star Posts: 837	I find it more amusing that you can even do that in the first place, and leave it to LGR to be the one to do that. __________________ Last.FM RYM

01-30-2019, 02:21 PM	#11631 (permalink)
~~[MERIT]~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 4,814	Got my son an Amazon Fire 7 tablet for Christmas. Been looking for some good games that he can play that don't require Wi-Fi. Any Suggestions?

01-30-2019, 02:23 PM	#11632 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	I don't think I can even mention any tablet games. I'd be in trouble if I was forced at gunpoint.

01-30-2019, 02:27 PM	#11634 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	If tablets can do emulators, the sky's the limit!

01-30-2019, 02:50 PM	#11636 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	As someone who used floppydisks back when it was the standard, I'm absolutely not feeling a craving to go back to that! They were slow as hell and had far too little storage capability. First time I finally got to use USB memory sticks instead, I felt very grateful for technological progress.

01-30-2019, 03:00 PM	#11637 (permalink)
~~[MERIT]~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 4,814	I remember starting college and paying like $30-35 USD for a 512 MB flash drive and thinking that it was the tits.

01-30-2019, 03:07 PM	#11638 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	Having spent years being limited to 1.44 megabytes per disk, even 10 megabytes would have been amazing to me in the 90's.

01-30-2019, 03:22 PM	#11640 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	Pointless old-tech geekery can have it's charm. Last year, I installed Windows 3.1 in DosBox just to **** around with it, so I'm not above stuff like that. I also watch LGR a rare time now and then.