27th February 2005, 10:28 PM
I don't know if you care for Wario Ware games, but the latest installment, Touched, for the DS offers up over 150 unique ways of implementing the touch screen (not to mention the microphone as well). Things like rolling up a snowball, turning a large ball to find Warios face, moving a hand around the screen trying to catch falling rings, throwing a bowling ball at pins, and steering Earth through a scrolling space-shooter kind of scenario similar to R-Type, except the screne moves vertically are all excellent uses for the touch screen and make a game like Wario Ware great. I can see more great things in the future too, Nintendo's last bastion of hope is it's handheld market, and it won't let it go down without a hell of a fight.
The Earthworker Race has ended. Everybody wins.