Besides the Chromebook update I recently released, I've recently discovered through trial and error that there's a lot of great games that have been ported to Android, and thus, work on my Chromebook or my 2023 Motorola Moto G Stylus. The three in this example, I remember playing or hearing about a lot during my high school years, and when I found out that it was a thing, and scratched a nostalgic itch that had been hard to reach for awhile, naturally, I was ecstatic.
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| Space Cadet Pinball, on Chromebook |
The first one, as seen above, was actually one I had been trying to get for awhile, either through WINE, flatpak/crostini, or any means possible. I then found out that someone ported the Linux version to Android, and aside from not being able to easily change the default flipper controls and having an obnoxious overlay, is otherwise a perfect implementation.
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| Geometry Dash (Geometry Wars), Chromebook |
Next is Geometry Dash, which, for any of you who owned an Xbox 360 in 2007, will probably instantly recognize as being Geometry Wars. I went ahead got it. It was actually recommended as being optimized for Chromebook in the Google Play Store, and worked like a charm, and I love the game.
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| Hexic - Gameplay (Android) |
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| Hexic - Boot, Android |
Finally, is Hexic, which after all these years, I actually still have a physical copy of, despite not owning a computer that will run it. I was initially disappointed that it would only display in phone or tablet mode, and not in the resizable orientation that Android on Chrome OS is known for, but it meant that instead I had an experience that high school me would have only dreamed of while browsing pictures of Pocket PC PDAs in the current issue of Computer Shopper magazine. I'd been playing this one a lot over the Thanksgiving holiday, and am having an itch to go back to it even while finishing this article.
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