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by ferongr 5034 days ago
No, it doesn't. It's possible that whatever browser you're using doesn't support some feature, maybe requestAnimationFrame, but I could onlt speculate here. Flash is used for some ads though. I'd suggest you try either Chrome for Android (if on ICS) or Firefox Aurora for Android (the latter is guaranteed to work because both mobile and desktop versions of Firefox have standards support parity).

Disregarding the technical side of things though, the games themselves are below mediocre from a gameplay perspective.
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nilliams 5034 days ago
Well the games are remakes of the classics, so if you don't have any fondness for the originals, you probably aren't going to like them.

Personally I had some fun with lunar lander, though it seemed a lot easier than the BBC micro version I remember :)

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ferongr 5034 days ago
No, the response to controls, the "feel of the games" is just bad. The originals where an order of magnitude better.

The games look like subcontracted creations without artistic supervision from Atari just to advertise IE. They are not remakes for the sake of remaking old games, replicating and improving gameplay with modern visuals.

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nilliams 5034 days ago
Sure, I think that's fair. The whole thing could definitely have been done a lot classier. And I don't doubt there are better online versions of these games already out there - I've since found a better (flash) version of lunar lander.

The article itself is still pretty nice though and I applaud the effort that went into that.

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