There are a lot of people, like myself, who would love to play classic games on my smartphone. Sure, I have Fallout and Fallout 2 loaded onto my laptop, but I don’t have my laptop with me all the time. I want to play Fallout in the car, from the safety of the passenger seat. It’s not Fallout, but it’s a start. Someone ported Counter-Strike 1.6 onto the Android OS.
The coding is the work of Alibek Omarov, who ported the game onto Android by himself. And it’s the real version of the game, not a stripped-down version. Sure, the game is ancient, but getting anything meant for a real computer to run on a phone is pretty incredible. It’s impressive, and given the game’s enduring fan base, it could be lucrative.
It’s all unofficial at this point, but… maybe he’ll give the Counter-Strike developers some encouragement. Counter-Strike still has a lot of active players, and if they could get that 22,500 or so to buy an Android version–as well as old fans returning to the game with a new smartphone version–that’d be a vibrant gaming community.
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