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It wouldn’t load, however, so I’ve got no idea how good/awful it was. Home Run Hero: This is the game other airlines have advertised on their websites as part of their in-flight games. Also, evreyone’s moved onto Threes now anyway.
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That’s the in-flight Millionaire experience.Ģ048: It’s the same game you can get on your phone, but with a harder to use interface. Imagine playing a quiz game and turning every animation off, every video setting to 2003, and then play the game with no sound. It’s not much to crow about: there’s no effects, transitions, or anything flashy whatsoever about the licensed quiz game. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: This wasn’t available on the smaller Airbus plane, only the A380. Alternatively, it could have been the drinks that I started ordering at this point, knowing there was so many other games to get through. Over time the game gets faster and faster, unlike my spirit, which slowly died with every virtual calorie I delivered. Pizza orders appear on a map, and you drag those orders onto your pizza shop as fast as possible. Pizza Frenzy: Another 2005 Popcap gem, Pizza Frenzy is basically like a half-baked Cook, Serve, Delicious. The other kicker was an atrocious frame rate, which is always what you want when you’re trying to stop a serve from barrelling down the middle. Why? Why not just have a fixed viewpoint? The worst part is the camera: when you run to the net, it zooms in, eliminating vision of your opponent. More Mario Tennis meets Animal Crossing, really. I’m a bit of a cricket nut, so that’s where I started. That seems to explain games like Tennis Showdown, which doesn’t really illustrate what you’re in for. If anything, the prevailing design logic seems to be “put something bright that moves on the screen so kids will shut up”. The biggest problem is that most of the games run like shit, the input delay is immense, and the games are so poorly coded that things like AI, frame rate, and content were all afterthoughts. To Emirates’ credit, their Vita-esque controller works real well. There’s good reason for that: for the most part, you’re playing some pretty crappy smartphone games. DEVELOPERĪbout seven hours across two flights: an Airbus A330 flight from Vienna to Dubai, and a A380 flight from Dubai to Sydney. Playing 2003-2004 games in 2017 doesn't scream world class, nor does a laundry list of ancient Popcap games. The variety of games, the in-flight controller was comfortable and bright, the touchscreen worked quite well. Maybe it'll keep the kids from screaming? TYPE OF GAME I whittled down the list to the ones that looked the most entertaining and ploughed through 15 of those before my body refused to continue. They’re the market leader for in-flight video games, and you can view their catalogue online.īecause Emirates’ ICE system had over a hundred games, I’ll simply go through my experience with each game I played. The developer on every game I saw was DTI Software, although they’re now part of the Global Eagle in-flight entertainment conglomerate. The time of copyright on most of the ones I tried was from between 20, although there were a few games that were well over a decade old. Their website at the time of writing, however, has the same titles I saw on Emirates’ ICE system: Bejeweled 2, 2048, and Football Cup.Īll the games I experienced had the quality and style of very early era smartphone games.
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Deluxe, Pokemon, Mario Golf, Zelda: Oracle of Ages and more. Singapore Airlines, for instance, had access to a small range of Nintendo games, including Super Mario Bros. The Emirates website proudly boasts that it’s been rated the best in-flight entertainment for the last 10 years running, but the airline’s a bit behind the times on the video game front. Most of those are singleplayer affairs and classical board games, like backgammon and Monopoly, although there’s a few multiplayer offerings like in-flight poker. This story originally appeared in August 2017.Īccessible through the in-flight menu or the Vita-esque gamepad, Emirates serves 103 games to those flying cattle class on their long-haul flights. That inevitably failed, so I opted to kill time by scouring through Emirates’ range of in-flight games, of which there are hundreds. On my way over to and from Germany for Gamescom one year, I attempted to do something I’ve never had much success with before: sleep.