Cell Phone Games

[pgrmdave]

So, I've been working for a company which publishes cell phone games and I was wondering - does anybody actually play these games? If so, what games do you play on your cell phones, and why do you like them?

[Pyrotex]

So, I've been working for a company which publishes cell phone games and I was wondering...

YOU? Program cell phone games?

Isn't that like... the "skid row" of computer science???

[pgrmdave]

I don't program the games, I just QA them. And considering I'm 20, still going to school full-time, and on the East Coast, it's a pretty good job :)

[Pyrotex]

I don't program the games, I just QA them. And considering I'm 20, still going to school full-time, and on the East Coast, it's a pretty good job :)

OH!!!! I'm so glad.

It comes as a surprise to me that you're so young. Really. I somehow got the impression you were around 40, and a hot-shot UNIX gunslinger slapping together industrial applications in C++, Perl and UNIX scripts for somebody like General Electric (prolly the jet engine division).

[InfiniteNow]

I play the one that came with my cell all the time. It's addictive! I play it whenever I'm in the back of a meeting which is going slow, or in a cab or whatever... It's called "Bejeweled."

[Pyrotex]

I do love a good computer game, but cell phone games leave me cold.

In my old cell phone, there was one game, basically a shooter: I could raise and lower my ship on the left, and I could shoot at random bogies that crept in from the right. I played it maybe half a dozen times.

My current cell phone, a lovely Nokia "candybar" has maybe 5 games on it. There are three main reasons I do not play them:

(1) The instructions are cryptic (I was only able to figure out how to play 2 of the games.)

(2) The games I did figure out (and played) were too trivial and boring beyond tears.

(3) The interface (slick, rounded buttons smaller than a fingertip) sucks.

[Jay-qu]

I used to play snake and space impact on the old nokia's, or the memory game - they where good for a few mins of entertainment when bored.. on my new phone I only have 1 game, prince of persia (no good and the loading is nearly as boring as just sitting there doing nothing!) I have to download any others which I just havent bothered doing.