Guys listen me out: I have found some strong indicators what could happen in the upcoming months. I want to do a discussion on what you think about my discoveries. Please read every single aspect before commenting.
While celebrating new years eve, i got pretty stoned and hyped about any possible announcements from either Loopring or any other big company. My thoughts about how 2022 will change the life for us all got pretty wild. So i did a lot of research and found some really interesting articles. I'm a gamer since my early days and i want us all to succeed. There was one thing that came into my mind which afterwards blew me away:
With the upcoming release of the Steam Deck (Possible to order after Q2 2022) Valve is planning to reach their customers in a completely new way. Valve is known for implementing ground breaking technical solutions to modern problems. Just look back at the introduction of the Steam network back in 2003. Even if we jump back in time, when Gabe Newell (while he was still working at Microsoft) found an efficient way to sell the Microsoft OS by showing that you can run DOOM on it. He spent 13 years working there, serving as a producer of the first three releases of the Windows operating system. He also led development on a port of the 1993 first-person shooter game Doom for Windows 95; the port is credited for helping make Windows a viable game platform. Keep that in mind. Source
In a 2013 tech talk at the Texas LBJ School he was stating opinions on how the game industry has changed in the views of a Video Game Maker. Link to the video
Short summary of the video (worth watching the whole 1 hour for even more context): His background at Microsoft made him feel like companies were going in the wrong direction in the mid-90s and how he decided to start Valve. The necessity for creating a strong product first and not worry so much about sales / marketing. If you really made a good product, it will sell itself. At Valve they have a flat management structure. They see how independent autonomy given to employees can boost their productivity. Then he switches to an in-depth discussion of the TF2's virtual economy and player trading (= steam market and the workshop, later necessary to build a bridge to NFT things.) While bringing examples on how players see va
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You can add a cheap telescopic controller and play games like a handheld or get a dock and a wireless controller and use your phone like a console with your tv. You could use that dock and a keyboard / mouse with your TV or a monitor to use your phone like a pc. You can stream video services to an old dumb TV to make it a smart media center.
Use retroarch for console and arcade emulation. It's free and quite powerful. Dolphin works well for GameCube/wii and ppsspp works for PSP emulation.
Couple games I've been playing:
http://imgur.com/gallery/GbqRfhw
Don't forget there are zillions of games in the app store that work with controllers as well.
If you want to use your phone with your tv as a console any old cheap Android controller will do. If you have an Xbox or ps4 controller those can be paired easily as well. I'm using a USB-c to hdmi multiport powered hub to connect my phone to my TV. Make sure your phone supports hdmi over USB-c if you want to try this.
You can then navigate decently with your bluetooth/ps4/Xbox controller.
If you want to replace your pc with a phone you'll need that hub plus a mouse / keyboard and a monitor or TV to display your desktop. Samsung has a feature called dex that switches the phone to a desktop mode and there is a developer option for Android that allows a desktop mode as well.
If you want to use your phone to make your TV into a smart TV / media center you can install kodi for free. There's also an "android tv" interface but I have never tried to set that up.
There are many many guides on YouTube for setting all of these things up but if anyone has questions please ask!
Playing Mario kart double dash with a couple dirt cheap controllers and an old phone on a big TV is super fun, give it a shot!
So I was on YouTube honestly just trying to find a good longplay of Flashback via the REminiscense engine to possibly see the game in its entire glory (considering every port seems to have at least one advantage over the others, it's maddening... anyway...), and next thing I know I see a guy running it on a TI Nspire or whatever, I haven't used a graphing calculator since a TI-82 in 1999. But it got me thinking what it might be like to run RetroArch on a graphing calculator.
Stupid? Maybe. Silly? Definitely. Pointless. NOT AT ALL! ALL THOSE BUTTONS!! Seriously, a pocket device that could actually cater to the people who want to emulate retro computers rather than consoles. Imagine the retro computer equivalent to an Anbernic emulator handheld... sure you could just stick a keyboard on one of these things, but the form factor actually exists already in the form of these graphing calculators.
Tell me it already exists or is possible.
Platform: PC (Probably Windows 7)
Genre: math edutainment
Time of release: mid-to-late 2000s
Art style: kind of a plasticky 3D look
Mechanics: It was mostly bog standard edutainment fare. You were given a time limit in which to complete arithmetic problems. The more problems you could complete correctly, the higher your score.
I played this game in school. Each student was able to create their own profile to track their progress over the school year. I'm pretty sure this was an installed game and not a browser game, but I remember I could access my profile from any of the classroom computers, so I assume there was at least an online element.
The big gimmick was that you played the game on like a virtual handheld device. On the main menu, the left side of the screen had a rotating 3D model of this handheld, while the right side had either a login or a drop-down menu to select your profile. Once you logged in, it zoomed in on the handheld and your math quizzes would play out on its screen. Also when you got a high enough score, you could unlock new skins for your device, which would give you a nice colored border around your arithmetic questions. I also remember it having sort of cheesy 2000s sci-fi visuals and sound effects.
Which type of console do you remember more fondly, handhelds, full-sized consoles, or PC, and why? Because I really wanna hear about everyone's best gaming memories.
Rember seeing this as either a Kotaku article or a youtube ad during the 2010s. The game revolved around a party of demons trying to destroy some kind of giant monster with a massive number of hitpoints before it reached its destination. You could have a character attack the boss, or have them go off and grind to get stronger.
Now that x86 handheld gaming PCs are breaking into the mainstream with the Steam Deck, I was curious about the history of the category. GPD definitely gets credit for kickstarting (heh) the current trend from 2016 with the original GPD Win.
The earliest that I'm familiar with is the Razer Edge which came out in 2013, but were there earlier examples for example during the UMPC era that Microsoft was trying to push in the mid 2000s?
Of course you can game on any PC, but I'm looking for examples of gaming oriented devices which were marketed that way or have gaming controls.
One example that comes to mind is that the Wonderswan (1999) was actually x86, but not exactly a PC.
