IPHONE GAMES (Zero Punctuation)

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This week, Zero Punctuations reviews some of the popular iPhone games at this time.
Fast-talking Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviews a new game each week in this animated series that combines informed critique with cutting humor. Watch the next episode of Zero Punctuation a week early, only on The Escapist.
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[@sythygaming6458]

Well, I think we need an updated version of this video.

[@ratoh1710]

Ask and you shall receive, give and take a few years.

[@spyrosdeloglou8970]

He did an extra punctuation recently I think, about how the mobile game industry has gone to shite.

[@Mr_T_Badger]

Let’s all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee.

[@Broockle]

like y tho, his thoughts on DoodleGod are on complete display

[@kierannurmi5488]

There is. It's on extra punctuation.

[@betchaos7383]

if you ever feel your life is going downhill, just remember that mobile games were once good enough to be approved by YAHTZEE of all people.

[@Macswaggens]

The The Room games were good enough for a Steam port. They've even got a VR sequel

[@betchaos7383]

@@Macswaggens true! I only finished the first one, maybe the second one, I don't remember. But my sister LOVES all those games. She's not much of a gamer otherwise, but the room is her exception.

[@Macswaggens]

@@betchaos7383 I'm glad you've played those cool games!

[@TheMemeSheriff]

it's been 4 years, now all iPhone games are Clash of Clans ripoffs and micro transaction fee 2 pay "games"

[@CraftKitty007]

its a damn shame. I've been seeing ads for more and more fucking clash of clans ripoffs than ever before. sometimes in these very escapist videos.

[@redey1290]

*cough*game of war fire age*cough*

[@Marpfie]

+CraftKitty Why would it be CoC ripoffs? I'm pretty sure it wasnt the first game of that kind

[@kalebkelley6614]

+Karpfador Because it's the most popular game of it's types

[@Ryanmiller70]

+Karpfador You don't need to be the first to do something in order for people to claim others that came after are ripping it off. You just need to be the best or at least the most popular. Look at God of War. There's plenty of games that had the exact same combat style as GoW before GoW existed, but they weren't as good as GoW, namely Rygar.

[@gamingwildlife]

Wow. Mobile games have completely changed since this video came out, haven't they? Now 101% are all about microtransactions and they contain less gameplay and no innovation.

[@wackywoohoomeme]

They're innovating new ways to get your cash.

[@cinammonstyx7622]

There's still some innovative ones not trying to get your money, they just aren't successful.

[@ComradeMongol]

We need an episode on the wild mobile game developer, how they go to great strides to make games so hard that one may as well empty all of their wallets contents directly into their greedy little mouths.

[@cinammonstyx7622]

It's not even that most of the games are hard, they just make you wait forever.

[@sladikk]

Innovation? Name one popular iPhone game besides Fruit Ninja that's not directly inspired or ported from a Flash game or a real life board or card game.

[@tostie3110]

This video is in need of a remake. The market has gone further in worse territory and they're shoving it down your throat in even more annoying ways.

[@jodhod1498]

there are good games out there, the eight continent series,several adventuring platforms such as sword and dungeon, a straight out amazing RPG in style of final fantasy called doom and dungeon, an innovative running game called blades of brim stc

[@azureblaze8318]

There just as many good games as there are bad. You just have to hunt them down and be smart enough to know if it is bad or good on either its description, play style, or if the characters appeal to you or not.

[@thatonenerdonline9183]

There are so many of these videos that could be updated

[@Gravedigga63]

AHHHH yes the days where iPhone games were actually fun and not designed solely as a black hole sucking every hard earned penny from you with cheaply made graphics and unbelievably mundane gameplay.

[@KSIdragonrage]

Stephen Terry bruh

[@cyancat5451]

Stephen Terry it's because there are no quality standards. the industry had to sort itself out somewhat after the crash of 1983 because consoles were expensive and their sole function was to play games. if the games were bad it was a waste of money. the iphone doesn't have that factor to inforce any kind of quality standard like the grim reaper looming above, the mere sight of it's gleaming scythe terrorising the dreams of consoles everywhere. everyone in countries with avarage wealth high enough to afford a smartphone owns a smartphone. games on the appstore don't need to aspire, inspire, enrich or even just entertain, they merely need to distract so that you can pop it out on the bus for five minutes or distract the kids in the back of the car. in this enviroment games with heart and soul perish cold and lonely while generic crap made to brainwash those who don't know any better thrive like a parasitic fungus on a decrepit yet enormous body of a beast that can't be killed

[@cyancat5451]

Stephen Terry although a lot of good games with souls exist on iphone the appeal of traditional gaming devices is so strong that the dedicated audience for games will continue to prefer them over iphone games. this makes mobile a platform with a casual majority. this is not necessarily a bad thing but the casual audience is very easy to exploit

[@CornishCreamtea07]

I had scrolled down just to post this exact comment.

[@i69GrzzlyBears]

I was thinking the same thing. I cannot download a single mobile game to play in spare time that isn't based solely on microtransactions.

[@gossiperzoroark9629]

Birds. Ropes. Jetpacks. Fruit. Long ago, the mobile market lived in harmony. Then, every thing changed when Candy Crush arrived. Only quality control, the mark of great design, could stop it, but when the world need it most, it vanished...

[@JusticeForPottsvilleMaroons]

"It honestly seems to be the only market driven by actual gameplay innovation, where the next big seller is almost impossible to predict." Oh boy, the video did NOT age well...

[@kronosbach5263]

Yeah, It REALLY did not. Then again that was 10 friken years ago

[@witherrose1566]

Aged like fine milk

[@TheKingOfNachosTM]

i blame candy crush for this

[@RobertJones-bs9pf]

Watching this in 2021 is like finding an old filmreel about the health benefits of DDT.

[@thedarklordofcats339]

most accurate description

[@LazerLord10]

Oh, if only the mobile game industry wasn't so full of crap now, we might be able to enjoy some of those hidden gems. Sorry, I meant gems buried at the bottom of a grand canyon-sized pit filled with radioactive waste.

[@projecttitanomega]

+LazerLord10 You just gotta know where to look. You want a good mobile game that's new(ish)? Try 0h h1, or 0h n0. FLow is also a good one.

[@airandfingers]

+Austin McIntyre Thanks for the suggestions, these look like fun puzzles! I also enjoyed Room (and its sequels Room 2 and Room 3), and the choose-your-own-adventure games like Creatures Such as We make for interesting storytelling.

[@jodawoe]

"You're a ninja, fruit is flying in front of you, and FUCK FRUIT!" Definitely in Yahtzee's top 10 quotes. I think that "fantasy batman", "big stompy boots" and "required no less" are still my favorites, but he's always on point, so you can't go wrong.

[@Scottyy788]

my favourite is knickerless saint bum nose

[@dubsky_]

"It seems to be the only industry actually driven by gameplay innovation" And then Flappy Bird came out.

[@projecttitanomega]

+PK Rockin Ω Sure, but it still kind of is. The problem is that innovation isn't popular.

[@tj12711]

That wasn't even true 4 years ago when Yahtzee said it. Angry Birds was a ripoff of a flash game. All mobile games are either a ripoff or derivative of another game. There's nothing wrong with that, but calling them "innovative" is beyond charitable

[@tj12711]

***** No it doesn't. It means taking something which is already there and adding new elements or ideas to make it better, which is consistent with my first comment. Mobile games have almost never added anything new to the industry (except the art of making people with addictive personalities and bad taste blow their life's savings on micro transactions).

[@CraftKitty007]

and then clash of cunting clans came out.

[@projecttitanomega]

+PK Rockin Ω Well, if nothing else, it's a brilliant place to study sociology.

[@JamesR624]

1:13. Too bad that that's not even *remotely* true anymore. Variety in iPhone games? As someone in 2016, I can't help but laugh my ass off at the ridiculousness of this statement.

[@pauldeddens5349]

If it isnt a remake of candy crush (which is a remake for a flash game) or a flash game, its probably amazing, or absolutely terrible

[@belphaphone]

Agreed, the pioneering spirit is long gone and now the iOS is far worse for new devs to make any money or take risks on with original gameplay. Some lovely gems do still pop up from time to time, but at about the same rate as on PC.

[@jodhod1498]

again I would take this time to argue for the eight continent series. they are innovative and dlc free, you only have to pay for the paid version if you what to support the developers.

[@Fran-zx5xy]

Well he can't change the video he made so long ago...

[@JohnPinkrton]

Pretty sure by "gameplay innovation" he meant "ripping off old flash games".

[@ECL28E]

Because mainstream games are always innovating, like CoD giving you...a dog, Gears of War giving you...John DiMaggio, Uncharted giving you...sand?

[@LeonGun8]

ECL28E Naughty Dog's two main series this past generation (Uncharted and Last of Us) were created with the sole intention of crafting an immersive cinematic experience rivaling the grandeur and writing of Hollywood flicks. Now if you don'tconsider improvements in game's scope and writing to be improvements upon gaming (or if you don't think they accomplished such), that's your opinion.

[@JohnPinkrton]

Well they certainly do have writing like hollywood movies, taking no risks and staying as generic as possible.

[@halfhalo33]

ECL28E Bah, want innovation? Go check out Indie games on the internet or Steam

[@halfhalo33]

LeonGun8 Yeah, next for more innovation we need the fps to be 24 and the game to be more like a movie (ie Beyond: Two Souls). Just no, Uncharted writings/story is also a rip off, just like Hollywood (wear most of the time its a "recreates" a book). Mass Effect, Bioshock, and Half-Life had way better story/writing.

[@ArcaneAzmadi]

I think, 9 years on, this is still the _only_ Zero Punctuation where the ending credits skit ended with an animation rather than just a still frame for the final punchline. Guess Yahtzee _really_ hated that fucking little lizard.

[@MrTimoth3]

Pokemon Go made me come back to this video, reminded me of when innovation could be found in phone games before the black plague of Mictrotransactions

[@veryfancysavior7265]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Wow dude you killed me with that joke "Pokemon go is innovative" Hehe Wait are you serious? Fucking idiot

[@MrTimoth3]

Saleh ALShami It relies kinda heavily on nostalgia but actually moving around looking for things is pretty cool, I think PSP had a game like that a few years ago tho

[@plaaosert]

take a look at a game called Ingress, it's by the same company.

[@MrTimoth3]

Thanks

[@sharkymcsnarkface6642]

Somebody is needlessly hostile in this comment chain and evidently does not do well with those who oppose their opinion.

[@ThereMayBeLions]

Android. Android made me breathe on Mars

[@minimi98526]

DeeM10123 android saves lifes!

[@ThereMayBeLions]

And whenever Window's phones start to pick up steam, I'll say that they can protect me on Venus, I guess.

[@minimi98526]

YoursTruly_GTG I see a way how they might survive... make the phones gaming platforms, and give them steam

[@ThereMayBeLions]

michiel That.....could work. Brilliant!

[@justtheworst.6795]

YoursTruly_GTG Breathing On Mars You Say? Simple, Inhale, Exhale, Suffocate

[@NeoBoneGirl]

And then flappy bird came out and iphone games went down the shitter with clone upon clone of flappy bird.

[@art-n-filmsam3844]

..and they're still coming

[@runakovacs4759]

It reached its apex with "Flappy Sperm"

[@TheKrazyguy75]

And that didn't happen with every other viral mobile game? They only got public attention because the original was pulled.

[@Lightscribe225]

Krazyguy75 Still doesn't help that the biggest titles are either flappy bird knockoffs, or something from King (douchebags) like Candy Crush Saga or Some Other Saga...

[@slambangaction]

What the hell is flappy bird? (I don't have an iphone by the way)

[@ThatFanBoyGuy]

"You can't make a game any more simpler when the title screen also is the instruction manual" ~Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, 2011

[@cheerfulgestalt3282]

I don't have an Iphone. We discovered that breathing on Mars simply requires that you don't breathe, you make Mars do the breathing for you, because the planet is dreadfully scared of killing its population again. It's kinda clingy...

[@rufusdickinson]

For that comment you win: everything.

[@cheerfulgestalt3282]

Rufnacous Thank you very much, I accept this everything with pride. I would like to thank Mars for letting me live this long so that I may receive it.

[@pallete9844]

Your Icon Pulls It Together also i dont even have a phone

[@Xenoitia]

Sadly we still have to grow our own food, but yeah Mars is quite nice with the whole breathing for us thing. PS I also lack an IPhone or any kind of smartphone for that matter.

[@r.pizzamonkey7379]

1 word-"android"

[@8ball633]

Oh how the time has changed

[@CrapTurret94]

So... everyone else is back here after the latest Extra Punctuation video, right?

[@aldrnarienby4756]

I can breath on Mars because I am an Android.

[@Gr1mmReap3rT2]

+Arynn Kitsune Wow no replies to this comment? That was incredibly clever lol

[@amirdashti]

+Arynn Kitsune lol

[@dreadpiraterobertsnumba5]

+Arynn Kitsune Noice.

[@jfcwtfusernames]

+Arynn Kitsune Do androids breathe?

[@spamacc.2829]

*Android master race intensifies*

[@quetzalthegamer]

1:16 Crazy how prophetic this point about copy-paste phone games turned out to be.

[@PupCake1025]

5:00 Obviously it's because they were learning at the best wizarding school in the galaxy: PIGFARTS. Why, you may ask? Because Pigfarts... (Cue the dramatic reveal) Is on Maars...

[@Assassin0Nation]

It's really nice here on Mars. You should visit, sometime.

[@64UPAllGOD]

The trick is to where a fishbowl over your head.

[@gameglitchersweb]

And fill it with air or if you are part fish use water! but who are part fish these days?

[@curlyfordoge4366]

Gage Glitchers *raises his hand*

[@Rikudo44]

Considering how much mobile games have grown since then you should make a follow up video.

[@redhandsbluefaces]

I still don't have an iPhone... Mars is fantastic btw.

[@RarefoilB]

I know right? Do you live near my crater? We should meet up. Mines the one with the inch of water as opposed to 1/4th of an inch.

[@RarefoilB]

+Joseph Carter Okay, but just so you know, a dust storm warning has been called around this area, so I might not make it. Out alive.

[@charizardoreo]

+redhandsbluefaces I have one but I never play any games on it, I would rather play real games

[@swagz262]

+RarefoilB I'm trying to escape mars actually, meet me at the peak of Olympus Mons.

[@TheCalmPsycho]

+redhandsbluefaces I had a Nokia 210 until aboot a month ago, when I found myself looking into the future. I was shorter, aboot 70 years old, dyed my hair red, and had a sex change, with the same phone. It was at that moment that I knew I had to get a new phone. So I picked up my sister's unused iphone 4 from the top of the fridge and got a new SIM card. The iphone 4 isn't old, rite? Wait, they are coming out with a 6? Fuck, seems like I gotta spend a bunch of money for the best reason ever, to remain relevant.

[@m5rty_cbasedbro190]

Back in the old days when mobile games weren't stuffed with microtransactions

[@redenginner]

its great here in mars city, even with all these dissapearnces and deaths.

[@simasgx]

Yes! Now pardon me while I go feed my pet CITY EATING DUST WORMS!

[@ghostgunace]

Is that a reference to doom?

[@redenginner]

Yes, yes it is how keen of you sir, so go blaze off

[@jamesreid9284]

I wonder if, on a future ZP review, Yahtzee will review a movie instead of a game.

[@ivosamuelgiosadominguez6649]

Well, he did review The Last of Us and Beyond Two Souls. Sorry, I had to.

[@DecisiveZoom]

just discovered this guy... who needs air to laugh xD

[@Klick404]

This video has aged so poorly it hurts. I wish we could go back to that wonderful time where mobile gaming was innocent and nice. An interesting distraction while on a long drive or waiting for an erectile disfunction appointment. It was simple, it was FUN.

[@victorholmes7075]

Believe it or not, breathing on Mars couldn't be any more simple.

[@SakraNomoko]

Yea, just use all the hot air generated by people who insist on their smart phone's supremacy.

[@SakraNomoko]

***** Technically, our exhaled air is 14% to 16% oxygen, so it would work just fine, as long as the CO2 scrubbers were working. But who cares about technicalities? It's supposed to be a smarmy pun! :D

[@jacknife002]

***** And they exhale CO2 which is harmful to humans in large quantities. PUN RESUMES!

[@ColonelMcboot]

I can breath on mars! I just breathe in a hostile atmosphere and die!

[@herbertstevenson4229]

I remember when I had to breathe on mars without an oxygen tank(iPhone 5S) but then some random ass guy on the street gave me a slightly used oxygen tank(iPhone 5S) for no apparent reason.....not kidding,but if you don't believe me then that's fine......strangest day of my life.

[@ismaeel747]

cat + internet = youtube XD

[@ismaeel747]

I was pointing out a bit I found rather amusing. I don't see the problem, don't like it? don't read it... it's not hard really.

[@YengPu]

***** People that complain just for the hell of it when they could just as easily scroll down a fucking centimeter are a much more annoying than people that quote the video.

[@WolfiKurisu]

***** You're only taking up more space with your unoriginal angry reply. inb4 "So are you!"; I don't care.

[@rattasxela]

***** I know this is 6 months late but why the hell are you capitalising the beginning of nearly every word you type?

[@Pizzaboy609]

***** Tell me about it.

[@bmombaerts]

The reason the "mobile games" are "original" compared to each other is cause they aren't stealing from each other, they are stealing from intenret flash games. Each and every one of those mobile games their "idea" has been taken from a popular flash game (that probably did it better and had more effort put in it)

[@jbkjbk1999]

Mobile game don't steal from eachother?! HAHAHA.

[@IProChaosAngel]

R'Kdairos Zo'dhyac How are mobile games stealing from minecraft?

[@tatguy]

***** trust me if you go on the popular page you will see tons of minecraft clones

[@IProChaosAngel]

tatis tatguy doesnt mean they all are

[@LemonRush7777]

They also steal from consoles now that they have the horse power. Actually, Gameloft has been shamelessly stealing from consoles and PC games for as long as they existed.

[@puppetperson7612]

Its honestly crazy how downhill mobile gaming has gone.

[@AtelDrone44]

Watching this today is a little depressing. I miss when we had hope

[@Pokemongod777]

Mars is a great place to live, just take the left turn at Lava City and the right turn at the space junction and you get to the breathing department. You may have to sell your liver though

[@ConnorAKAthor377]

Lava city? You DO realise that Mars is a LOT farther away from the sun than earth, right?

[@Pokemongod777]

ConnorAKAthor377 Lava City is just an inside joke between a friend and I, doesn't matter

[@ConnorAKAthor377]

***** Ah, okay.

[@bcfblack]

ConnorAKAthor377 Wait, what does that have to do with anything. Lava on earth is not really at all related to the sun.

[@ConnorAKAthor377]

bcfblack Mars is colder than Earth was my point.

[@supercoolguy43]

Had a flip phone for about 10 years. Don't replace what ain't broke. Which incidentally is what I am, which is also why I don't have an iPhone.

[@caitthenerd7470]

+supercoolguy43 So, you need replacing?

[@supercoolguy43]

CrazyCashGaming Preferably with someone less broke.

[@W_Wolfie]

is that flip phone still alive?

[@mildweather7314]

Well, this aged like milk...

[@Zerpderp0]

By using my Android, I have successfully been able to breathe on Mars

[@aleccrawford2109]

lies

[@ActuatedGear]

I have a fishbowl, a garbage bag, a very warm sweater, and when the air starts to run out of oxygen, I've got a couple of cans of air freshener.

[@ThePCguy17]

I was sleeping. That's how I breathed on mars.

[@greyardwhite2683]

Aaah good old times when Iphone games actually we're innovative. Nowadays everything is a copy of flappy birds; simple style, continuous pressing one button and *it. never. ends.* And of course then there is Geometry Dash.

[@PandaEden]

and don't forget the endless clash of clans esq games oh and how many different angry bird games are there i lost count after the 1st coz all the rest remind me of paid dlc. but who needs dlc when you have micro-transactions (ahem clash of clans)

[@JeffordP1994]

Adnaan Hussain Remember Infinity Blade

[@PandaEden]

*****​ sorry bro, not an iOS gamer ( I think that was an iOS exclusive ) so care to explain ?....

[@VenomousCr0w]

Goblin Sword is a current exception to one tab. There is no one tap.

[@JeffordP1994]

Adnaan Hussain Infinity Blade is a hack&Slash that was made a few years back, using the Unreal Engine

[@TheRunningRoman]

I'd rather spend 12 hours mucking about with my 3DS on a game that was designed with for a game machine. I don't have an iPhone and frankly they seem to be going the way of the 80s arcade: filled with pay-to-play, obnoxiously immature, and containing the depth of a puddle after a kindergarten class walked through it.

[@Goombalove3000]

yeah, but this was written in 2011. the 3ds games then were a not great and iphone games hadn't yet been spoiled

[@volt792000]

of course youd rather spend your time playing on something you own as opposed to playing with something you dont.

[@Goombalove3000]

***** on what grounds?

[@JuanToFear]

Yahtzee should do more of these. Always looking for new games to play on my phone.

[@littlefieryone2825]

The thing about the Google Play store that makes me more than a little mad is whenever I look around in the free section I see about a million ripoffs of other popular games, not to mention reviews that give a well designed game one star just because it doesn't work on their phone.

[@aricharles5058]

Don't have an iPhone. Don't want an iPhone. Don't need an iPhone. I've got a dinky little flip phone, and it works fine for the few times I actually end up using it for emergency purposes and such.

[@Flyawayautumn]

See that's fine for you and it's fine for a lot of people I'm sure but personally I just like having access to the internet at all times and games and shit are just a nice side benefit

[@MRMARKSMAN1581]

Amen brothah

[@mrb692]

Ari Charles Still using a dinky little flip phone, or have you got a smartphone?

[@sninctbur3726]

Out of the moments in this video that aged like fine milk, 1:13 takes the cake.

[@WolfHeroEX]

I don't even have a smartphone at all, so I guess my lungs still working has something to do with genetics or something.

[@MrUnknownuser164]

Did anyone else think about Little Alchemy when he mentioned the game about combining elements?

[@projecttitanomega]

+MrUnknownuser164 Well, if you thought that, it may be because Little Alchemy kind of ripped off Doodle God.

[@MrUnknownuser164]

***** I've never played Doodle God, so I wouldn't have known.

[@xenan7889]

escapist: mobile game are driven by innovation flappy bird : hold my beer

[@SherlockHolmes000]

I have a flip phone. Call me the Emperor of Jupiter.

[@neos1234125]

I always love the Brisbane references. Especially the Mana Bar. It kicks ass.

[@levinseve3471]

That closing statement was awesome.

[@o76923]

I wish that he did follow ups on this.

[@wrongtime9097]

I don't have an iphone, and now I have my own potato farm on Mars

[@liamwirvin9586]

I hope it's nice there Mr. Damon.

[@wrongtime9097]

It was until my house imploded

[@BoboMagroto26]

Bought a Samsung S7?

[@wrongtime9097]

Nope. I literally have no cell phone. At least the potatoes taste good, though

[@BoboMagroto26]

XD

[@k-leb4671]

There was a Halfbrick studio outside my secondary school. It was probably the headquarters before moving to Musgrave Road, Red Hill. I wonder if they would've taken an internship............

[@reillyobrien4372]

"like a velvet fist withdrawaling noisily from a moist. Hey wait a minute... [Changes subject]"

[@RockingSpaceDragon]

Oh it was rather simple. I just took my windows phone, opened it up and used all the unused good stuff to create a fully functioning spacesuit and house. Amazing so the good things they didn't use, eh?

[@suspectsn0thing]

Well, I guess all the innovation has run out. The rip-offs on the appstore actually make me sick.

[@robertburbank3202]

suspectsn0thing _REPLY_

[@ECL28E]

Try "The Room"(No, not that one) and its sequels. It's a series of puzzle games where you open a series of strange boxes and physical mechanisms.

[@AssassinKillua15]

You go into the playstore now and it's just a bunch of those stick figure simulation games where you're running on a track of some kind avoiding obstacles. The same game over and over with some different color thrown into the mix.

[@Bourbonismbeta]

My android phone creates oxygen. And sucks my... wait a second why the hell does youtube want me to share this on Google+?

[@mrwortharead2631]

Seven years on and this video has aged like milk

[@Tillyard86]

I would love to see a follow up to this video, talk about Doodle Jump, Clash of Clans and Temple Run.

[@jimnicholas7334]

Not many of us left here on Mars and I think my time to is coming up, but I still amaze every social group by whipping out my flip phone in 2018.

[@alexniklaus6216]

Boy how things have changed...

[@sedertful]

It's easy to breathe on mars. The trick is surviving the oxygen deprivation.

[@robertjoe9396]

3:56 Something about that is just too funny more than it should be

[@randytyson]

The first time I watched this, it took 20 min to load this on my iPod , those were the days

[@quinnolsen4712]

I don't even have a phone and certainly not an iPhone

[@psinjo]

quite frankly it's rather easy to breathe on mars, i didn't spend an arm and a leg buying an iphone so i have much more money to afford air in a can, shipped to me regularly as i tilt my head back and open my mouth to breathe like the entitled little shit i apparently am

[@Proserpira]

The naïveté in this video is so sweet, so...nostalgic. Ah, the gentle caress of hope, she is a cruel one...

[@doyouthinkicare444]

I live in a giant dome and planted a few trees, it's a bit cold on mars but I quite like it.

[@vissenekku]

Proud owner of Nokia 1100.

[@1DevilsDagger1]

Give £5000 if u can some how brake it

[@vissenekku]

I've had it for ten years. If it could break, it would be broken.

[@Postghost]

I bet you it'd blend. Haven't tried *that* have you?

[@user-op4ge3wj4y]

Postghost one doe not simply break a nokia

[@xSomeRandomGamer]

That thing can save your life

[@Catlord98765]

I have an android! We live on the moon not mars, gosh!

[@mezzskardwize8570]

"Sweetie" that's old school lorry British right there. Damn yatzy you an OG

[@FlatlandsSurvivor]

Nothing makes Yahtzee seem even more funny than not haveing any sleep the night before.

[@CritSuccessNerd]

funnily now a days mobile gaming is becoming rehashed. Example look how many angry bird games there are.

[@vicentetemes5793]

Then there appeared Clash of Clans. And Castle Clash. And Clashing Clashers. And Legend of the Clans...

[@captainbloodloss1]

the atmosphere of mars is infact breatheable, but being mainly CO2, you'll lose oxygen quite quickly. (contrast to venus which is superheated and caustic and titan which is -200 degree butane)

[@gfizzle099]

Need a new one of this

[@NotYoCheese-wb8kc]

I have a gameboy emulator on my Samsung that farts air freshener

[@TheLoneTerran]

I never could afford one of those phones. Hundreds of dollars for a phone? I'm not a millionaire.

[@urvinespiegel7335]

I breath on Mars by never crawling from under this rock.

[@gnbman]

Thngs were so different when this video was made. Angry Birds and Doodle God have since been commercialized to death, and microtransactions, corporations, and corporate microtransactions crushed mobile gaming so hard that console gaming felt the aftershocks.

[@BenedictTanShanWen]

Well, this opinion is obsolete given that mobile gaming has gone the way of the mediocrity cesspit.

[@Jarzyniak]

What was the last mobile game you've played? Try something like Device 6, Monument Valley, Out There, Republique, Wayward Souls. All of these are great games released this year that you can get really cheap even when not on sales (and with no microtransactions).

[@BenedictTanShanWen]

Of all the games you named, none of which compel me to pick my phone/tablet as my preferred method of gaming. Even the best games of yesteryore like sword and sorcery and the carnal superhexagon feel awkwardly executed thanks to there being no great way to execute any kind of interface on a touchscreen. The only way I enjoyed completing the former was on PC. All things being equal of all the games you posted there isn't anything on that list that wouldn't play better if it were on a gaming platform other than mobile with the possible exception of Device 6 and even then I'm skeptical of that. Mobile gaming succeeds not because it's particularly any good; it succeeds because it's always there.

[@jackthompson7125]

It was obsolete the moment he uploaded the video. As many others have pointed out, the fun early phone were mostly just rip offs of flash games from half a decade ago, many of which could be played entirely without ads and God forbid they require you to pay for them.

[@masonpines6349]

This retro-review is brought to you by Raid Shadow Legends.

[@nnickerson100]

i do not have a iphone but some how got all 3 consoles from the gen that has the game cube in it handed to me

[@fearanger1]

Touche... Truth be told, my iPad was a gift from one of my friends who wanted a buddy to play with. The problem is that he already has a PS2 with lions and cyborgs, ghost busting with guns, ac collection of old arcade games and even Space Invaders Anniversary!

[@uknownada]

I wonder. Is his last comment about "breathing on Mars" supposed to say you're so out of touch with everyone else that you HAVE to have an iPhone, or is it that you don't have an iPhone so you managed to become intelligent enough to learn how to breathe on Mars?

[@uknownada]

***** Something tells me you haven't met that many people in your life.

[@ivanhostiuk9398]

Vinnie Sifter what is bad about android? How does android make somebody pathetic?

[@BigT.Larrity]

Vinnie Sifter Android shits all over Apple, enjoy your fragile basic bitch phone.

[@mezzskardwize8570]

The latter bro. For reasons obvious in 2018

[@rjd-kh8et]

0:25 So if the game has any cutscenes at all, Sega's ripping you off? What?

[@Wanzerman123]

I figured out to breath by wrapping my head in a plastic bag and making sure the bag has a potted plant in it.

[@BoboMagroto26]

I.. actually started playing Fruit Ninja again after watching this, cheers Yahtzee

[@forge4119]

well it wasn't easy to learn how to breath on mars, but i have my ways.

[@alexanderwalker3906]

Oh how times have changed. Now triple-A games are back to just being meh and now mobile games are just shoddily thrown together microtransaction casinos that are plastered wall to wall with hybrid battleshipanimegirlswhoyoucanlookafterfuckandmarry. Don’t forget they need to be advertised on every single square inch of the internet.

[@NightReaper213]

The trick to breath on mars is to have a huge bubble around your head with a bonsai tree in it and you can just water it with your tears.

[@anon9579]

I want an alternative gameplay mode that replaces the candy with a cinder block too