Here are games that have stood the test of time. Any copyright holders should get off their butts and get these games on the iPhone, NOW! Any developers should be talking to these copyright holders and offer them some sort of deal. Why risk an unkown game idea when there are SO many champion titles out there that aren't on the iPhone? If there are no plans to port them, who would turn down free money for it to be ported for them? Check them out on wikipedia and raise the standard of iPhone gaming forever. StarControl2/UrQuan Masters - possibly the best game of all time and already freeware MULE Autoduel (best Car Wars game ever - based on Steve Jackson's rules) Pool of Radiance Ultima series? (I mean, come on) Wasteland Eye of the Beholder Alternate Reality: The City, The Dungeon (finish the series that never got finished! Mid 1980's games that rock!) Cyber Empires Warlords series Might and Magic series (at least some of the earlier ones) All of these games are mega fun well beyond their technical limitations and decades after their releases. Each have excellent gameplay (something forgotten in most of today's games) and they all played fine on nothing more than an intel 386, so many should be easy ports or even susceptible to some upgrades if the dev resources are available. Even without changing anything in these games, however, each are proven hits that would dominate the games currently on the iPhone. In fact, I downloaded UrQuan Masters (the freeware version of StarControl2) and played it on my PC a couple years ago. When I can enjoy a game written in 1992 on the same hard drive as Crysis, the latest HalfLife 2 episode and NeverWinter Nights 2, you KNOW they did something right.
MULE was a great game and I would guess that EA still holds the rights to that game. Dan Bunten was the designer/programmer/creator of MULE. He was a nice, very down to earth, talented person. Sadly he died of lung cancer about a decade or so ago.
Any of the old side scrolling fighters would be awesome, especially with 4 player wifi. Games like: Battletoads TMNT - Turtles in Time The old Simpsons arcade Final Fight Yeah arcade brawlers!
I want to know why Paperboy isn't out...wouldn't that be perfect with accelerometer controls, and swipe to throw your papers?
Starship Titanic - it was a game written by Douglas Adams (he wrote the hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy) and developed by the digital village. Its an adventure game (think Monkey island) with all the same wit, insane characters and nutty sci-fi themes for any fan of hitch-hikers. It even features the voice acting talents of JOHN CLEESE! Here's the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Titanic
Any blizzard game, dune 2, fallout, and... Herzog zwei. Elder scrolls 2 daggerfall, and any ultima game(especially 8, oh and the spinoff first person arpgs.) that's all I can think of right now.
I'd like to see a remake of Bitmap Brothers' Gods. Short game but fun. Heroes of Might and Magic would be nice, short of that, King's Bounty.
Battletanx - a port of the excellent N64 game Twisted Metal Goldeneye/Perfect Dark with Online - Won't happen Magic the Gathering (atleast the Duel of the Planeswalkers game) would all OWN
Blood. The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall. (with QSTpack+fixes, latest current patch for town name fixes and fixsave, quest fixes not provided by QSTpack and third party fixes etc, etc and a rebuilt ported binary. those all make a normally buggy as all get out game more stable than any of Beth's recent stuff) The Elder Scrolls 1: Arena. (considering that Bethesda softworks now owns Id games, they could use a modified version of the wolf3d classic controls for Daggerfall or Arena, those being 1st person action roleplaying games. Oh, how I wish I could play them on my ipod.) The origional System Shock (CD version) ((On another note, this topic is what motivated me to get an account here after I'd been using this website for news for a few months.))
