I grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons in the 70's and playing Atari in the 80's. I loved going to arcades and playing Donkey Kong, Pac-Man and Frogger, and I wanted so badly to bring one of those coin-op games home and have an arcade in my bedroom.

I bought my first computer, a Commodore VIC 20, from one of my High School buddies who only used it as a console for playing game cartridges. I would always come home from the arcades and try to recreate the games I was playing on my home computer. I was never quite able to capture the look and feel of the arcade versions. Of course, now you can get an emulator for your home computer that will play the actual same games from the arcades. And home console games today are so far beyond anything from that era that it's hard to imagine how kids could go so crazy over something as simple as Pac-Man.

That's what is so interesting about the Palm platform. It seems like the perfect place for those old retro-style games. The emersive 3-D games would be overkill on such a small screen, and role-playing games are too involved when you're just sitting in a waiting room for 10 minutes. I like games that you can just pick up and play for a few minutes without having to think too much or commit a lot of time to the game. I'm not much into strategy games. I like to shoot stuff, blow stuff up, chase something or be chased by something. I like the motion and the physics.

Sure, I enjoy playing Grand Theft Auto III, but I will always be a big fan of the golden age of video games.