Okay, I'm typically not a big "gamer". No Playstation 2, not tons of PC software on my desktop. I do have Flight Sim 2002, Combat Flight Sim, Sim City 3000, Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, Need for Speed III, Nascar Racing on my home PC.

My Axim has been used for business and utility functions so far but yesterday I bought a couple of Hexacto's game bundles. I'm very impressed with their small file size and bunches-of-fun gameplay. Here are my 'capsule reviews' of each game in the 2 packs:



Lemonade Inc. - Set up your own Lemonade business and run it for financial success. Play around with recipe, inventory, price and business expansion. Watch for external influences to your business success like weather. Plays landscape on the Axim screen. Incredibly simple to learn and very, very addictive.

Slurp - I don't know how to describe this one. You've got a lot of liquid blobs on your screen. Use your stylus to click on them and the blobs go away BUT use strategy to pick the right combinations to click on so you can clear the screen. A no-brainer to learn and hard to stop playing.

Pop's Pipes - Kind of like Tetris except it's not the 'block shape'you care about as the tiles fall, it's making the 'pipe picture' on the falling block 'fit' your other pipe blocks already on the screen. Link four blocks together and they disapear. Super easy to learn. Fun, but the Axim's D-Pad button is sluggish when playing and sometimes makes the blocks go to the wrong places. I believe I can remap the buttons but haven't tried it yet.

Emperor's Mahjong - A graphically rich Mahjong game. Match the tiles to clear the screen. Plays landscape on the Axim screen. Lots of styles, patterns, and options. I must be getting old because those tiles are real tiny on the Axim screen! Reading glasses needed! Fun game

Awele - I'm still learning this one. Ancient game of strategy where you capture 'seeds' on a gameboard. Website says "very easy to learn, but can take a lifetime to master". I'm in the mastering stage. Cool graphics and reasonably fun.

Again, impressed with Hexacto's game design and fun'ness.

Paid $59 total for the two game bundles - worth the $$ in my opinion.

www.hexacto.com

I have Lemonade on my Clie and on my Axim. Love it! It is a fun, fun game. And like you said, very addictive. I have Slurp on my Clie and that is a neat game. Haven't come up with the $$ for it on my Axim yet though.

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I tried that lemonade game for like 3 hours but I couldnt get past making a certain amount of people pissed off at the taste of the lemonade and no matter what I did and no matter what options I tried worked. I got frustraded and decided I hated that game.

I think I like ziosoft a little bit more...

I've got the recipes figured out - it depends on the temperature- hotter outside, add more ice, and add more lemon and sugar so the ice doesn't dilute it too much. (I'd give you the actual recipe but not online - don't want it to be a spoiler for someone.)

I'm up to about $1800 with a lemon shaped stand in the mall!

I can't beleive you didn't buy/review their sports games!! Baseball Addict and Tennis Addict are incredible for PPC games! They have nearly the functionality of PC games of not so long ago...
They have Soccer Addict as well, but I haven't played that one yet.

Don't even bother trying them - just buy them!

I d/l the Slurp and Lemonade demo. The lemonade demo has a cut off of 30 days of running the stand then it disables the whole game. No problem with that...the Slurp demo does not appear to have a cut off time/date. Some options are disabled from the front end (high scores etc). BUT, I've played it about 100 times without any warning about demo has ended etc. BUT, I have noticed that now when exiting the demo it locks up my Ax and I have to do a soft reset to get anything back. At first I thought it was something to do with having the switcher bar running, as it seemed that having that on caused the problem but having it off did not. However, now it happens regardless of switcher bar running. Has anyone else had this problem. I WAS going to buy the full verison but hate to buy it if it is going to continue to have problems.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
C

I liked lemonade Inc at first, until I figured out an extremely cheap recipe that makes lots of money almost every day without having to change it for the weather. I had tons of cash very quickly. And then it lost its fun.

McCade

Yeah, I've been playing Lemonade while out of town all weekend. Once you buy all of the upgrades and make enough money, it slowly loses its fun. That big lemon-shaped stand is cool though.....the money just floods in once you have that.

--deftech