I’m not a hardcore gamer. I’m not anywhere near Theresa and Pritpaul. I mean, I play video games. I have for a while. I have fond memories of Mega Man 2 for the NES…and by “memories” I mean “from last week, when I played the clone of it on my Wii.” I’m not really that out of touch; I’ve just had an evolving relationship. I played Final Fantasy 7 and Metal Gear Solid for the Playstation and I adored ICO and Shadow of the Colossus for the Playstation 2, but…honestly that is around where I started falling out of touch with the big gaming properties. I own a Wii, but aside from Resident Evil IV I mostly use it to play ports of old games or retro-style games like New Super Mario Brothers or the new GoldenEye. What all this means in practice is that I guess I’m what you call as “casual gamer.” In fact, I would say the majority of the games I play are either in a browser window or on my cell phone. Particularly the latter, so I’ve decided to share my favorite mobile games with you all, with links to the browser versions, if they exist.
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