Mario,
From Pac-Man to Metal Gear Solid. From the very first Zelda to Fallout 3. From Super Mario (no pun intended!) to Lara Croft.
Gaming has changed dramatically over the past couple of decades. We've seen Sonic, Mario and Link step back so Snake, Lara Croft, Drake and so many others take place. It took only a couple of hours to end Dr. Robotnik's evil plans. Now it takes a couple of days (weeks, maybe) to finally fight Zeus in God of War. What that means in my view is that the complexity of games have evolved just as hardware did. Still, I personally miss those games that were equally fun, where your avatar was a 2D sprite blittered on a plain surface/canvas. What about Tetris? Boy, that was *very* fun.
Gaming is evolving to kinda merge with movies (Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Fallout, Metal Gear Solid 4, etc), meaning they're morphing more into a interactive story-telling than a kill-the-evil-aliens-2-hour-entertaining-application. All in all, mobile devices recently became capable of supporting more robust, interesting games (Angry Birds, anyone?).
Enter Android.
On to the question (finally): what are your views on Android bringing back those kind of quick games, those you can play on the way to work or maybe on a plane while travelling? As a side question, do you think the console industry will react to that (say, porting Angry Birds to PS3)?
Thanks,
Luiz Valmont