Great platformer game Tommy Kombat now available for free!

Great gaming source ClickGamer has just made free (instead of the original price, $19.95) an oldie-but-goldie title, Tommy Kombat.

The game is really worth its current (free) price. You can find several reviews of the game if you want to find out what it's like without getting it; for example here, here or here (the last being in French).

Getting

If you don’t have an account on ClickGamer, just register yourself (you don’t need to supply any credit card data or top up your virtual account at all!) and, after logging in, click the “Free stuff” link at the top, the “Pocket PC – Free stuff” icon, and, then, the ‘Download now for FREE’ (the direct link is here if you’re lost – as was me at first) link at the right.

Note that there’re some other, free titles in there. Most of them, however, needs your account to be topped up (while they’re still free and cost nothing) for downloading. Happy hunting!

Compatibility

Unfortunately, the game doesn’t seem to support WM5. It starts (and the appropriate title is displayed) but the initial screen doesn’t render and nothing happens. This was the case on both my WM5 iPAQ hx4700 and Dell Axim x51v. (I hadn’t have the chance to test it on my HTC Wizard. Later, when I test the game, if it’s compatible, I’ll make all you know.)

Under earlier Windows Mobile versions, however, it works great: on the WM2003SE Pocket Loox 720 (which is a VGA device; this also shows it works on pre-WM5 VGA devices and it’s not because both the hx4700 and the x51v are VGA devices that the game didn’t want to work on them), the WM2003 iPAQ 2210 and even on the PPC2k2 iPAQ 3660. (Note that, however, that on the latter you may need to install gx.dll in \Windows for the game to run. It can be downloaded from here. Start the installer (gapi12.exe), in the target path, change the first backslash (\) to a drive letter you have write rights on (for example, c:) and let it extract itself to the default directory and, then, copy c:\mobweb\mobile\ developer\downloads\ files\ARM\gx.dll to the \Windows subdirectory on your Pocket PC. Note that I've also made directly available the DLL file so that you don't need to install the installer - it's here.)

UPDATE: it doesn't run on the HTC Wizard either. That is, it's not WM5-compliant.