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Discover the Best Palm Games

You don’t use a Palm the same way you do a desktop computer, and games are no exception. Find out what you can expect from the gaming offerings for your Palm.

For the most part, you are unlikely to spend two straight hours playing a game on your Palm. It is more likely that you will play games in five or ten minute increments. Thus, games in which you can quickly grasp the current state of the game are good, as are games in which you can make noticeable progress in a few minutes of play.

Games like bridge or Civilization don’t work well on a Palm unless you can finish an entire game in one quick session because you need to remember a large amount of information in both of those games. Tetris is a good Palm game because there is nothing to remember—the state of the game (i.e., the current pieces) is always visible. Tetris is a game that you can pick up and play for a few minutes, then set it aside and continue later.

Here are some games worth looking at, divided up into categories. This list is merely a small sample of the games available.

Role-Playing Games (RPGs)

Role-playing games put you in the role of one or more characters in a story. Typically RPGs have a fantasy theme, but there are space and detective themed RPGs as well.

Ultima.

The Ultima series (1, 2, and 3) is a remake (http://www.palmgear.com) of the original RPGs that improves on the originals. The originals only used 16 colors for the graphics. In this remake, the graphics have been redrawn ...