'The Original Mobile Games' Might Be The Switch eShop's Most Bizarre Release To Date

An odd choice but if they can land the ball physics these might well be worth £2

Sounds neat, actually.

Better run at 60fps

This rules it rules

If it controls well, this is well worth 2 bucks. I also like the reproductions and the descriptions on the side of each game. Really cool conversation starter and piece of history.

That horseshoe puzzle looks frustrating!

Nice little collection actually - might check it out on mobile first.

This game should be made for the 3DS, in stereoscopic 3D it will look really cool.

I downloaded it on my phone. Some of them feel very realistic and it's a nice history lesson. It should work fine in handheld mode on the Switch I suppose.

@mist : Back in those days ~20fps was the standard frame rate for motion pictures.

They better respect the integrity of the source material in that regard or this is an easy skip.

i saw this on the e-shop and I actually said out loud 'hah, that's cool'. might pick it up some time to fill an evening.

I’ll buy that for two dollars! Neat little history book

Hm, seems like something Buzz Killington would enjoy...

This sounds really interesting. I'll check it out.

What an interesting bunch of games I will defo add to my wish list.

Reminds me of those mini toys you’d get in Wario Ware Touched

Cool stuff. And for that price, an easy pick up. I'm willing to bet, a lot of people cheated on these, though.
After all: there were no measures in place to prevent it.

Much like with that Niagara Falls game:
"When a ball has left the bank, it must not be replayed"

Yeah, right. And who or what is going to stop me from doing that?

I have to wonder what kinds of drugs the original creators of these puzzles were using, if they were able to see pigs in a couple of balls, and clover in a couple of concentric rings with holes in them...
I do also wonder what the difficulty might be about that puzzle with the colored squares. Seems pretty straight-forward to me.

@nintendolie
Actually, yeah, that's a good idea. Too bad the 3DS support is at its minimum.

NOW I'm sorry that I don't have a switch

This actually looks really cool. 149 games, only for $2. Sounds like a deal to me.

The game have ingame purchases. This means you do NOT get all games for 2$, but the DLC packs is cheap too.

It's out in Europe too.

@Ventilator it says 150 years, not 150 games.

And yes, the game offers dlc packs with about four extra games for 1 dollar each.

@Morpheel The DLC packs is atleast cheap, but all combined you can get a good game on sale.

I will see how it works first when someone posts a YouTube video of it.

Cawe have a review talking about just how faithful these recreations are?

@SpicyBurrito16 It's not 149 games. It's 149 years.

There is around 25-30 +/- games in total including history behind them and other bonuses.

I took the plunge and bought this game. The discount for all of the DLC isn't live yet, but I beat the initial 6 games included in about 20 minutes. Here's a video of the 6 included games and my times (some need improving) and the non-existent eshop discount at the very end. https://twitter.com/ONLYUSEmeFEET/status/1154059215201157121

This is a motion-only game. You can tap the sides of the game using the L-Stick, but you need motion to beat most of these. Pro Controller is what I used, and all the games felt great to me. If I can solve all of these with my feet, you hand weirdos should have no problems!

Technically, it's serviceable. Physics are good, though tapping causes some strange movement to the point where a few games can be cheesed with it. Framerate feels 30FPS to me (docked), but it's solid enough to where I didn't notice during play. HD Rumble and sound effects are both implemented well. Textures are low quality which is my biggest gripe with the entire thing, though the history portion of the game has printed text which somewhat helps. Games all play fine which is much more important than any of this.

I wish the discount was live for DLC so I could give a better recommendation, but the $2 base game feels something between a demo and full game. My assumption is that the DLC games will be on average more difficult (the first pack of 6 is called Meltdown claiming each game is very difficult). With there being 21 games in total, I'd say they'll add an additional 2 hours of just beating each game once?

Leaderboards would be welcome, but $5 for the full package, Original Mobile Games is worth it if you're into games like this and/or history. I wish I knew how much of the net profit of the game went to Strong, as I personally view my $2 (and hopefully $3!) as a donation to their museum, so the price and method of distribution do not bother me at all. This is a solid package that does what it needs to do.

Feel free to ask me any questions!

This looks up my alley. Sweet!

@Lord
Red Dead Redemption 2 did that long ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLFqKjxeCoo

Can we get an 80s version with those water games in the small square plastic tanks, where you pressed two red buttons to make air push balls to a goal in the water? Surely someone remembers those?

I agree with others, this screams 3DS release.

@Agent721 they already made it, it's part of Nintendo Labo!

@Morpheel

You mean with the first set and the TV? If that’s what you mean, that is similar, but I’d love a set like this with the original ones.