Rob Browning wrote:

> Portables were meant to be played when circumstances keep people from
> playing with larger, more powerful devices.  Because of this, portable
> games are supposed to be quick to play and enjoy during the time you
> spend on the subway or a ten-minute coffee break.  This recent trend
> of making games for portables which don't fit with this philosophy
> annoys the hell out of me.

  One of the nice things about my PSP is that I can shut it off in the
middle of a game, and when I start it up, play resumes at that point.
It's saved me a couple of times when the battery died in the middle of
a level of Valkyrie: Lenneth.

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MD Anderson Division of Quantitative Sciences
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