i.e., musings

Classic games reduced to highlights

I would never play through the entire Super Mario Brothers again, but if I could replay the last bout with Bowser and relive the ending, that would be mint.

Same with Final Fantasy 1; get me straight to the battle where my characters get all grown up, and then take me straight to the last battle.

Why isn’t there a service that makes this possible? I’d buy more XBL Arcade remakes if they supported this and might actually care when Wii classics were released if they let me jump around.

This list could go on forever! Anyone got a favorite classic gaming moment they’d love to relive but don’t have the time to replay the whole game? With emulators and ROM states this should be totally possible, but I’d love to see a pretty package.

Is Google pulling a fast one on T-mobile?

Pretty much everyone to date that’s seen the pricing info on the Nexus One is disappointed. It’s not even the price that’s disappointing so much as the expectation of more from Google.. And maybe we’ll get it.

We already know that number portability is in the works for Google Voice, and some people have already ported their number. If you’re using your Google Voice number as your main number, what stops you from getting just a data plan and using GV’s VOIP and SMS functionality for all your calling needs?

You might balk at a $530 unlocked phone price, but if you’re only paying $40/month for data service, vs $80 for a subsidized, contracted phone from T-mobile, you’d make up the difference in less than 9 months.

The one major caveat to this is that you’d need an existing T-mobile SIM card because there’s no way T-mobile would give you one if you were planning on doing this.

It’s a good thing I’m a T-mobile customer whose contract expires the day before the Nexus One announcement.