50 Android games demonstrated in one video -- who says Android can't game?
By Vlad Savov 
posted January 28th 2010 5:27AM
posted January 28th 2010 5:27AM
posted January 28th 2010 5:27AM
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not bad at all. now do they still have that 256MB size restriction on apps?
@chrislevin
yes, tho' the apps can still use all the sd card space they want for storing their data
some of the games look like garbage..
@young hov 718
so do some of the iPhone games/fart apps bro. You can't have it all on any single platform. Some of the games are right on par with iPhone.
Also, playing these games while on pretty much any carrier you want... that's pretty awesome.
Just compare those android games to the app store games. I can run 2 heavy games(asphalt 5 and guerilla bob)at a timeon my 3gs(and it wasn built for multitasking)
@(Unverified) how... if it cant multi-task?
Search for kirikae.and,yes,appstire consists not only from fart apps(I hate them,though).even wm has some
@(Unverified) You need to jailbreak the iPhone to do that. I can run two heavy games on my droid just fine right out of the box. Oh yeah, and my warranty is still valid.
Will these games work on the Nexus One?
I don't know why people cry and bitch and moan and go so hard about having decent games on their phones/iphones/webOS/android handsets...just get an old slim PSP, gaming cant be beat on that. and if you're a pirate then you can just hack one of the older slim PSP's and put all your games on a memory stick and play from there. I almost never play games on my phone, I don't know why people make this feel like it's a needed feature, like they need it more than texting or browsing the web...If I'm at home I'm on my PS3 or watching TV or on my comp no doubt, if I'm at work I don't get time to play games on my phone, if I'm outside or walking outside or something I'd rather be on the phone or texting or surfing the web instead of bieng completely distracted or something while walking or on the bus playing games, plus you always have music. in class is really the only time i've played a game on my phone, tried some out when i got bored but it just wasn't satisfying enough. my little brother has an ipod touch and i've used it to play a bunch of games and to be honest I think they're all garbage, no game i've played on an ipod touch/android/sidekick compare to anything I can play on PSP, much less my PS3/360, hell I have a DS too but don't even play it anymore.
i mean sure it'd be nice to have a monster of a smartphone that could game like a beast but i doubt you'll get it and none exist so far, and it's not that important anyway.
gaming on smartphones is overrated, most of you don't even game that much on your android/webOS/symbian/winmo/iphone phone anyway. if I was going on like a trip to somewhere and needed to kill time i'd just take my PSP with me and play that instead of playing a garbage game on my phone or ipod touch that's about 20% the calibur of a PSP game. pokemon on the DS >>>>> any iphone game, or android/webos/symbian/winmo for that matter. and yes, you can play emulators on the PSP.
@marik1234
why carry multiple devices if one can get the job done... sure a phone will likely not be as good due to compromises that a game system doesn't have to make but I dont like carrying several devices if I dont need to
thanks for posting this ...i have been looking for a version of ragdoll blaster for android ever since i saw it on a friends iphone
A lot of these games look like shovel wear. I mostly play the puzzlers on my Droid... WordUp, FitDroid, and a few others. We also have an SNES, Genesis, and NES emulators that can play any game from that generation for $4.
supersonic here i come..
Is there any bluetooth joypad, or could we use a portable bluetooth keyboard on Nexus One?
Awesome!
If developers can create games like this with the small amount of space they have to work with just think of what they can do when android allows apps and games to be stored on the SD card.... Very exciting stuff
The problem is I don't see any games that I'd actually want to play here. That's true of the iPhone as well. It's partly the touch screen, and partly just a lack of development time put in to most of these games, but they're almost all extremely, extremely simple games. Calling them "casual" is being kind. They're just simplistic. I mean, how many racing games are we going to see on phones that involve nothing more than tilting your phone to go around corners before everybody realizes this is more of a tech demo than an actual game?
Great post. Good reference for those looking for games on Android.
cant wait for the Android HD2 to be out!!!
Those games look awesome, but the music was so horrible I really wanted to stop watching...
peter griffin is the green guy.
Anybody know what that Wipeoutesque looking game was? I wants!
Great video. I spent so much time searching on the market for good games with no luck and this video has found them all for me. The android market place really needs an improved browsing mechanism. It's hard to find good content.
all these games rock!
Wow all that noise that Android was not a good gaming platform was way off.Somebody's breath smells like feet(EA) Thanks to all the devs who made that video possible.
I don't like how this comment references the Pre and that Samsung. It doesn't fit, the Pre and Samsung are multitasking the Droid is just playing games one at a time... Also seems like a trick to make people think the Droid is multitasking the 50 games, even though he says "Joining that number party, albeit in a different fashion".
Are they trying to make the Droid sound better?
very poor games compared with iphone games, but is a beginning...
@FrankLucas
Grammar fail. Must have posted that from an iPhone.
I hate how so much amazing tech and software goes basically unnoticed by the general public, just because everyone loves sucking on steve jobs balls.
Why is this on engadget... it's not even an apple product
Thank you for posting this. There look like a lot of good games here that I would probably never find in the Market. I'm seeing lots of gaming potential coming out on Android.
Spore is the best! i played it on my enV years ago. id get it for droid if i had one XD
Talk about intriguing -- I can't wait for my contract to be up to get part with my BlackBerry Storm.
That's so cool ..... i'm thinking of buying one instead of an iPad
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