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1. cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 04:24:07 JST cool_boy_mew
   Oh? That's some major stride in game preservation. Lots of potential garbage however, but hopefully the actual good shit will be preserved
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 04:43:01 JST xianc78

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     @coolboymew Yet nobody bothers to preserve and emulate the old iPod click-wheel games.

   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 04:43:38 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • xianc78
     @xianc78 these had games?
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 04:46:33 JST xianc78

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     @coolboymew iPod Classic and iPod Nano (I think there were other models as well) had them. Apple discontinued them in 2011.

     They were basically on par with Java flip-phone games but used the click-wheel so they were even more limited.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_game

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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 04:48:29 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • xianc78
     @xianc78
     >54 games
     >Seems to be mostly inferior version of stuff
     
     I can see why nobody bothered
     
     And if they're just basic Java like most other cellphones of the era, they might be "emulated" already
   • Sky (itsskydragonz@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 04:50:42 JST Sky

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     @coolboymew FINALLY! WE CAN SAVE FLICK FISHING!!!
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 04:52:57 JST xianc78

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     @coolboymew I don't know if they were Java programs. I don't know Apple's relationship with Java, but I bet they used something proprietary or their Objective-C language. From what I've heard, the games were all zip files with a different extension.

     But mobile games, PDA games, etc from the pre-smartphone era desperately need to be preserved. It feels like people forgot that those games existed.

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   • Sky (itsskydragonz@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 04:53:58 JST Sky

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     @coolboymew OH MY GOD, THE JELLY CAR GAMES!!! THIS IS AWESOME
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 04:54:48 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • xianc78
     @xianc78 A few are. I know the Hyperspace Delivery Boy game was easier to find the PDA ver than the PC ver at some point
   • dice@frennet.xyz's status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 04:54:56 JST Dice

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     @coolboymew@shitposter.club I remember the was a game that was iOS only but can't remember what

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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 04:57:20 JST xianc78

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     @coolboymew PDA games might be easier to find, but feature phone games is probably a different story. Most of them didn't have Wi-Fi and carriers would charge you for even browsing their catalog, so most people didn't bothered to check them out, unless you can side-load Java applications via USB or PC removable storage.

   • thegreatape (thegreatape@thechimp.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 05:30:28 JST thegreatape

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     • xianc78
     @xianc78 @coolboymew I used to play solitaire on my scroll wheel ipod during class with the ipod hidden behind a book / folder. Good times...
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   • katkat@shitpost.poridge.club's status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2023 05:30:43 JST katkat

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     @coolboymew@shitposter.club :blobfoxhyper2: finally I can play those old ios games I had

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