The official UK Java download chart was released today, covering the month of August. And guess what? Tetris and Pac Man are still in the top slots. Did I just image the last twenty years of game development?
Whatever, it must be a sobering state of affairs for developers looking to push the genre in new, more interesting directions. Is mobile gaming - as a mass entertainment medium - going to be forever stuck in the eighties? Is this down to the limits of the technology, or maybe the fear that afflicts users when faced with a multitude of unfamiliar choices on their network provider's games portal?
Or maybe people really, really like Pac Man.
