So when I played the game on my Android tablet, I couldn’t believe how much easier I found the controls and that even though magnification isn’t completely necessary with this game, I found I enjoyed the lack of eye strain playing on my tablet. To start, I was an expert at the iOS version and working with its tiny screen. Having played the iOS, Android and Nintendo DS versions of Diner Dash, I can say there are subtle differences between each. The customers vary and get more complex as you level up – babies, courting couples, tables of 6 or more…a harsh restaurant critic…they all present their own challenges for Flo, but if done right, you can help Flo achieve a lucrative business. Where the challenge comes in is how fast you can move Flo, as well as having the ability to keep her customers happy, efficiently. The gameplay is easy enough, and consists of dragging and dropping customers to their tables, and tapping on screen to get Flo to move where she needs to go. Eventually, she is able to open franchises and different types of restaurants. With more money, and bigger customer base, she can renovate the restaurant, add more tables (and therefore accommodate more customers), and eventually get a coffee machine that she can use to appease cranky waiting customers. She seats, takes the orders, and buses tables, all in quick succession, so that she will keep her customers happy, and will get paid a tip that goes into a jar used towards making improvements to her restaurant. The game sets you up with Flo in her little diner, waiting two sets of tables. The first time I played Diner Dash, a time management game, I instantly got sucked into restauranteuse / waitress Flo’s world a young woman who was forced into the corporate office cubicle, and found her method of escape when a dilapidated restaurant came up for sale. Recently, I found Diner Dash: Sizzle and Serve for the Nintendo DS as I was also curious to see what the differences were. Then, having an Android tablet, I always wonder how a game I’m used to playing on a tiny screen would translate to a tablet. Diner Dash was free, so I downloaded it from the Apple app store. I had been searching for something else to play on it that was easy and fun. I have now played Diner Dash on three systems. My first taste of this game was when I first got my third generation iPod Touch in 2010. I bet you read the title of this post and thought, “Well, duh…It’s like writing about Angry Birds, right? We’ve ALL played these games, what’s the point in wasting a blog post?” Well, why not? And why don’t we ask why this game has mass appeal?
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