J Tourettes said:
I think I read somewhere that Android has about 20,000 apps to the iPhones 100k or so.
When I read the 20k report, iPhone was at around 90k apps. For the length of time that the Android Market has existed, its pacing really really well. It needs better support from big developers though.
My recommendations:
SNESoid, Gameboid, Nesoid and Gensoid - All work really well, but would probably be best on an Android Phone with a tangible keyboard. NES games work fine on a touch screen phone with a few buttons, but it starts getting unworkable from SNES onwards... the dev who does SNESoid needs to add a multitouch virtual gamepad for those of us with capacative screens. He's already added tilt for left/right control, a virtual pad would solve a lot of problems.
Hyperspace - demo available as Hyperspace Lite. Its a tilt game like Monkey Ball, where you move a soccer ball from one end of the level to the goal. Not as good as Monkey Ball obviously, but shows that kind of game could clearly be done.
MotoXMayhem - not on the store yet afaik. But you can download and install the .APK that was entered into the Google ADC2 competition.
ScummVM - monkey island, maniac mansion / day of the tentacle, sam & max hit the road etc... all working using this emulator.
What the Doodle? - its online pictionary, quite fun!
Flood-it! - someone took the paint-bucket tool and made a game out of it. Quite challenging little thing.
Space Physics - you have to get an object into a goal by drawing objects on the screen. You can draw lines/platforms, wheels, motors etc -- fixing a line to some wheels for example causes it to move like a car in the direction you drew in. Clever little game.
I also like having Sudoku / Solitaire type games on my phone.