The Last Express is now out on Android—almost a year after its iOS debut. This port of Jordan Mechner's '97 adventure game features the same improvements as its iOS sibling, including achievements and a three-tiered hint system. It can be grabbed here.

Now here's a blast from the past. Courtesy of DotEmu, purveyor of updated re-releases of classic games, Irem's 1987 side-scrolling arcade shooter R-Type is ready to be experienced all over again.

Jordan Mechner jumped and kicked his way into gamers' hearts with Prince of Persia and Karateka, two seminal releases that expanded the possibilities of what games could be and how they could tell stories. But it was The Last Express that proved to be the most ambitious title of Mechner's game-making career. The…