I feel like mobile games have only gotten worse as well. Like I saw my nephew playing some last year and there's just stuff happening, he doesn't even react to the stuff half the time and the game keeps going? It felt like when video games get portrayed in tv in the 90s and early 00s where the games are just completely incoherent, and the reactions of the characters don't seem to align at all.
I know that a lot of the combat in gacha games has an auto-battle mode because realistically people don't care much about the gameplay and are just farming 7 different in-game currencies so they can roll more gacha.
Young people games are incoherent
I mean, I think in this instance it's specifically games designed around getting screen-on time from 3-7 year old lol.
I see what you're talking about now. Sure, the gambling psychology they insert in mobile games to addict its users and disrupt attention span is illegal in China and should be illegal outside China too
Don't know if that'll happen 'cause I played flash games as a kid and despite some very small curiosity I have about some of them I'm not nostalgic for them at all and wish I spent my time as a kid playing any other game.
That's... I good point actually.
I also played flash games and maaaaan they were baaad. No nostalgia for them in the slightest
I had nostalgia for them for a while, some were actually really intricate and maybe even good, and some of my friends have white whale flash games lost to time. But yeah, there's no tidal wave of nostalgia products for various reasons
Personally my feeling is there'll be some nostalgia for the better mobile games but if there's any preservation effort it will probably recreate them without the microtransaction bullshit lol
Guess I'm the only weirdo here who absolutely has nostalgia for loads of flash games as a kid, there were many crap ones and many, many great ones.
Motherlode, Portal: The Flash Game, Castle Crashers, Super Meat Boy, Every Neopet game ever, Happy Wheels, Bloon TD 1/2/3/4/5, Impossible Quiz 1/2/3, Anagram Magic (+all the multiplayer games on miniclip,), Uno (+all the multiplayer games on omglol), Madness Combat, Fancy Pants Adventure, to name the ones off the top of my head.
I refuse to accept none of these are worthy of nostalgia. Some of them were turned into very successful full-blown games.
Impossible Quiz 1
I failed on the last 10 questions of that one so many times that I gave up lmao. Even as a kid, I didn't have time for that shit.
Nah me too. Smash the castle or whatever that trebuchet game that got copied by angry birds was dope
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The games people get nostalgic about and remember are determined by a mix of actual quality, how many people played them new, current availability, and whether they're tied to any ongoing franchises.
Everybody remembers the old Mario games because they were actually good, they were the most produced NES carts, Nintendo keeps re-releasing them, and Nintendo keeps making more Mario games which openly advertise 8-bit Mario. A lot fewer people remember The Guardian Legend (which owned btw) because it had a smaller distribution and has no franchise or rereleases and its parent company spends all its time barely managing to market Puyo. Nobody remembers the Adventure Island series, even though there were five thousand of them, because they were just kind of bad. If you go to my personal nostalgia mines of late 90s mac shareware, nobody remembers any of this, because approximately nobody played these, none of the companies stuck around, and it's a pain in the ass to set up the emulators (Bumbler Bee-Luxe is great, Escape Velocity Nova is great and also available outside a horrible mac emulator).
So for old mobile game nostalgia, I think it's going to run into a wall. There's a trillion of them and everybody played different ones, so there's no critical mass for the Tiny Wings nostalgia fandom. They were made by tiny companies, or just one random developer, who eventually abandon them (either because they move on, or because they don't want to have the old version compete against more predatory sequels). And the app stores constantly change standards and require apps to be updated, so the apps eventually stop being listed in the store.
There's a trillion of them and everybody played different ones
I saw a nostalgia video of old flash games, the youtuber showed 20 them, not a single one was one I had ever heard of or seen.
A lot fewer people remember The Guardian Legend (which owned btw)
I'd actually love to see a movie adaptation of that. 
Slay the Spire is a mobile game
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is a mobile game
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is a mobile game
Hyper Light Drifter is a mobile game
I mean yeah I know what you mean when you refer to "mobile" games but another way to look at it is that the gender gap in gaming basically disappears if you include mobile gaming, so the view that mobile games are not real games is arguably springing from male chauvinism.
I think non men deserve to game without predatory skinner box mechanics regardless of platform
Be a retro g*mer, play Flappy Bird
I disagree. More than half of those are ports and I actually find it more male chauvinistic to assume that women prefer mobile games.
That's like telling someone who thinks Barbie is vapid "Actually most women like Barbie so actually you're sexist."
so the view that mobile games are not real games
the issue is probably about low quality, gimmicks, and exploitation, I think the problem is reinforced when your counterargument is a bunch of ports (exceptions that prove the rule), you might as well start calling all steam deck compatible games and emulatable retrogames mobile games.
yeah after I bought my $800 cellphone and $800 laptop, I'm totally going to also buy $800/year worth of consoles (I just assume all 3 consoles + games + controllers + online subscriptions cost $800/year).
but also mobile games do kind of suck, like wtf im not going to pay you for fake fish.
It's already happening. Young gen Z is already having nostalgia for angry birds, geometry dash, subway surfers/temple run/minion rush, jetpack joyride, fruit ninja, smash hit, etc. These are all games I played over a decade ago when I got my first smartphone in high school.
tbf the old angrey birds was probably actually good and it is no longer possible to play it the way it use to be played (unless 
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I don't buy it. I grew up in the 8 and 16 bit era and I only have a small collection of about 5000 retro roms... oh...
Eh, I'm an old fart and I certainly don't get nostalgic for everything from my youth. There weren't any mobile games, but there sure were a lot of plastic "collectables". They'll probably find something to be nostalgic for, but don't underestimate the amount of "How the fuck was this blatant cash grab legal?" that they will feel about their old classics.
You have become the very boomer you once despised
NOOOOOOOOOO I DON'T WANT TO GRILL
I’m already nostalgic for angry birds :(. That said, the vast majority are terrible and ads cause me physical pain at this point.
I genuinely don't think this will happen. I know it's easy to bash whatever the new, current thing that wasn't the thing in my day, but are Gen Alpha actually passionate and emotionally invested in their mobile games?
Without a pulling story, a world that captures your imagination, that ensnares your mind and makes you think of all the possibilities in that world and/or at least meaningful social aspects, I don't think people have much to really remember or get nostalgic for. Maybe I'm very ignorant of mobile games, but I think an extremely small percentage of these really manage that, at least a far smaller percentage than other games. (And if mobile games like that really do exist, let me know, because I'm still waiting to personally experience a single one)
Like someone else said, nostalgia at best for mobile games would be like the nostalgia for flash game sites like mini clips back in the day. A few games would stand out as, “oh yeah I played that” followed by a joke about how easily entertained they were as children.
I've seen a few guys feeling nostalgia for a mobile porn game
Gacha Trash, the Movie, with a nostalgic soundtrack by the Costco Guys 
what do you mean 10 years i'm already nostalgic for infinity blade
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