{"id":3638,"date":"2011-08-20T02:38:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2011-11-17T22:24:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:24:29","slug":"snapp-judgments-frg-deluxe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/entertainment\/snapp-judgments-frg-deluxe\/","title":{"rendered":"SnApp Judgments: FRG Deluxe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today\u2019s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/promo._V155017784_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3639 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/promo._V155017784_-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/promo._V155017784_-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/promo._V155017784_.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Today&#8217;s free app is <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004DM28IS\/ref=mas_ty\" target=\"_blank\">FRG Deluxe<\/a><\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=bl_sr_mobile-apps?_encoding=UTF8&amp;node=2350149011&amp;field-brandtextbin=Woo%20Games\">Woo Games<\/a>, which usually runs for $3.00. You ever play the old arcade game <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smash_TV\" target=\"_blank\">Smash TV<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Williams? If you answered yes, then you&#8217;ve basically played <em>FRG Deluxe<\/em>. You play as a humanoid robot on a top-down playing field blasting everything in sight, using the touchscreen equivalent of two joysticks to control movement and shooting &#8212; left thumb controls your movement, right controls where you shoot at.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Problem is, it&#8217;s nowhere near as good as <em>Smash TV.<\/em>\u00a0Which, in fairness, was an amazing game, even when it was ripping off wholesale from <em>The Running Man<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Robocop<\/em>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comadmin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/smashtv-big-money.mp3\">Big money! Big prizes! I love it!<\/a>\u00a0<em>FRG<\/em>\u00a0probably isn&#8217;t that bad, it just doesn&#8217;t hold up well against a 20+ year old video game. I know my phone is capable of pumping out graphics as good, if not better, than the old game. Heck, I can even emulate the original on my phone. So why does this one look so flat and puny in comparison?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Come to think of it, why hasn&#8217;t whoever purchased the <em>Smash TV <\/em>rights in the Midway fire sale released it for mobile with a similar scheme to <em>FRG?<\/em>\u00a0I&#8217;m guessing either EA or Warner Bros? In any event, to quote the game ripping off <em>Robocop<\/em>, &#8220;I&#8217;d buy that for a dollar!&#8221; Seriously, I&#8217;d pay a dollar for it. Maybe even $1.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today\u2019s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today&#8217;s free app is FRG Deluxe\u00a0by\u00a0Woo Games, which usually runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,45,614],"tags":[244,68,241,1149,1150,74,108,1151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}