Telephone Gaming

Remember how excited you were when the iPhone first reached the markets?  Remember how weird it was seeing grandma with an iPad for the first time?  Think about how commonplace it is to see old ladies playing Angry Birds.  We live in the future, folks.  So of course it makes sense that there are now some totally kick ass phone games on the market.

There's a lot of fun games you can play in your spare time, and I am now thoroughly addicted to a whole slew of them.  Shit.  I even do most of my blog drafts on my phone...

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. 

but let him watch..... My amazing Jetpack Run scores!   97th percentile. What what??    

Seriously though, mobile gaming has progressed far and beyond what I ever thought it would have when I saw it first start on.  

I think I noticed this playing Block Fortress, which has quickly become my new waking obsession on the iPhone.  If you think of the bastard spawn of your basic tower defence game and minecraft, this is what should come to mind.  And the game is gorgeous.  Which is like, hey, this is my CELL PHONE!!!   Just gotta love those little, 'you live in the future' moments.  

Like when the creative side-apps on your telephone start surpassing the quality and scale of games you played as a kid and ruin you with a darkly lethargic nostalgia, the likes of which I am experiencing right meow.  Right meow, as I sit here and type this with a degree of disdain for this particularly spherical world.   Why can't everything be as destroyable and rebuildable as Block Fortress worlds???? SIIIIGH.