Hi.

First, I gotta say I *HOPE* something like this would be a reality, but I know it probably won't be in the near future, unfortunately.

But, imagine how friggin' cool it would be to play all you GOG favorites - on your android device.

If GOG.com would (somehow) manage this, I think it wouldn't be a hard sell ;)

With current computers, there's always the trouble of screen size (IRL and resolution). No matter how beautiful the game was back then, 640x480 *WILL* look ugly stretched over 42 inches in 16:9 scale...

But in a 3.5 to 7 inch screen, with the ability to play on the go, well, can anyone honestly come up with a better idea? :D With a 7" screen, I know it would be perfectly feasible to play a GOG in portrait mode with the lower part of the screen used by keyboard, and in a landscape and/or with smaller screen, just pop-overt the keyboard from the menu-button when needed.

What games would you take with you?

ps. For those games that use DOSBox ( http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/GOG_games_that_use_DOSBox ) this might be quite possible, even if not easy, in the hopefully not-too-distant future: http://androiddosbox.appspot.com/

For the ScummVM games also, for the others just wait until 2015 when handhelds will have the capacity that you can install Windows 98 SE or something on them and enjoy many old games.

Also, there's that iDOS app for Apple thingies that was floating around a few months ago.

Isn't the issue here the lack of controls more than anything else? DosBOX already has a port to ARM which would allow it to run on most handhelds, the problem though is that most DOS era games just aren't easy to use without proper controls.

This. Smartphones could be amazing mobile gaming platforms, if only the hardware designers would bother putting a couple of proper control buttons on them. You can play ScummVM games just fine on a touchscreen, but lots of genres are simply impossible to play properly.

That's why the Nokia N-Gage as much as it was derided was loved for it's gaming layout and NES, Megadrive and MAME emulation. The Sony Xperia Play looks ideal for Android emulation but I doubt enough people will buy the Xperia to justify coding emulators for it.

Meh, it'll get hacked or jailbroken or whatever they call it and there'll be heaps of emulators. I'm hoping the 3DS gets hacked soon, the DS had a few great homebrew emulators.

EDIT: Wait, if it's Android then people are free to write emulators anyway, right?

Yeah I wasn't saying there wouldn't be emulators as there are Android emulators. I was saying there might not be enough demand for those emulators to use the Xperia's dedicated gaming keys.

Ah, I bet there will. After all, people bothered to make various emulators on Palm OS that supported the Zodiac's controls. And the Zodiac only sold about 100 units. >.>

Oh yes the Zodiac. That was the main competitor to the N-Gage. Good times. There was also the GP2X. It was a strange world before the iPhone landed.

Pfft, screw the GP2X, I remember the GP32. It took SmartMedia cards!

EDIT: Smart. Media. Cards.

They come in sizes from 2MB to 128MB. >.>

Never forget the greatest dick move in history. The Gizmondo.

You'd think microsoft could make a 98SE app for windows phone 7, the minimum spec devices have got more than enough grunt to run it. Hell just for the laugh you could quit out of 98 to the dos shell & run windows 3.1, it'd be like running pocket pc 2002 all over again

I fucking disagree. "Smartphones" are toys, emergency mobile internet browsers and nothing else. Oh, they are "computers" for dumb people, too. Anyway, whatever they are THEY ARE NO GAMING PLATFORMS, jeez....