Game On!

Being a total mobile gaming freak, I know how frustrating it is to find the right kind of games for your cell, that are built for your cell. Especially when your cell is not a Symbian at the very least. So for the benefit of all the frustrated Nokia Series 40 gamers, allow me to list my all time favourite WAP sites for downloading .jar and .jad format games, good ones, relatively virus free and non-porn-advertising.

www.wap.mypuk.com
www.waptrick.com
www.cellufun.com
www.gameloft.com
www.wap.sayni.net
www.wap20.mygamma.com
www.worl2006.wen.ru/downloads.wml#c1

The first four WAPsites are the best and my favourites. Watch your step at mypuk though. All games are not clean. Some just make your cell hang. But oh well, you're literally spoilt for choice (over 2000 java games). Cellufun is awesome.

And yes. It's no use pointing your PC's web browser to these sites. That's why I haven't hyperlinked them. They purge things in .wml format. Not much use on a PC.


In the meantime, just for bragging rights, let me list the games on my cell phone right now. (I'm supposed to be studying right now, but I'm sick of studying why metals should corrode, so I'm doing this)

• City Builder 2: Just like SimCity! Magical but rather clumsy
• 1941 Frozen Front: ok-ish strategy game
  
• Connect4 SP: Addictive mind chow but slow
• Mr Sudoku: Huge collection but slow, again
• 3D Adventure: Rudimentary FPS with stereo walls a la Wolfenstein 3D
• Extreme Snow Boarding: Crazy gadget!!
• MiniGolf Castles: Perfectly melds into boring lectures
• Black Hole: Cool RPG with a nice, though unidirectional storyline
  
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Play as Aragorn as you thwack the dumb orcs.. muhahahaha
• FIFA 04: Too good. Pity the 6610i doesn't support newer versions
• Vans Skate n Slam: Wicked adrenaline puncher
• (applause)Medieval Combat: A tribute to Mortal Kombat, helps vent out anger. KO graphics with all the gore and kewl magic make a winner. Wish there were more bloodthirsty characters to control...
• Harry Potter: Crude Pacman style one
• Gem Game: Just like Bejeweled. Highly addictive
• (applause)Asphalt Urban GT: In a word... Wild. Hey I drive a black Lamborghini Murcielago AND a bright yellow Gallardo!
• XR-Jetski: Loss. Wasted 50 bucks on it cos of the cool name

AND NOW... DRUMROLL

• Prince of Persia: Harem Adventures
• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
  
• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
• Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
• YES! I have them all courtesy Gameloft. They're the only reason I wish I had a better cell! Mindblowing, hot Prince, even more mindblowing hot moves. This series has had me hooked for ages.

• Car Racer 2: Ok-ish sort of racing game that I haven't finished since a year due to a bug. Still on my cell in the hope that it'll go away one day :s
• Tour de France: Poor graphics, but lots of scope for tactics as you cycle for victory.
• Adidas All-Star Football 1.0.0: Yes! I play as Becksy-poo!
• Mobile Pet Dog: My cutie pie poodle Astro V5 whom I feed regularly and who has died 5 times already :D
• Mobile Pet Penguin: Cute fella too
• Cellufun Sudoku: Neat but limited collection
• W Corps: Another cool tactical but bugged one that I haven't finished but aim to some day...
• LOTR Trivia: Awesome!
• Flintstones: Puzzle. One of the unfinished ones
• Boarder Cross: Cute snowboarding game but slow to respond
• Periodic Table: Well technically not a game, an app that has pulled me out of tight spots many times ;)

And the standard fixtures:

• Bounce: Cheat's the way to go baby!
• Chess Puzzle
• A converter.

Whew. long list huh? And these're only the ones on my cell's short memory as of today. I update regularly. Don't raise an eyebrow. Each game does not exceed 6okb space and hence costs me not more than 60 paise (cheers to Vodafone). Cool or what?

And I haven't even mentioned all the games I've tried (which I won't remember in any case).

But two series deserves a mention. Drumroll.

• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Extended Ops
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Sexy missions, careful tactics required and fairly responsive controls. Good ones but I prefer the PoP series. Didn't get the same from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Series though. Pity.

• Townsmen 1, 2 and 3 are also great strategy games that make for great playing when you have the time, or when you're likely to have long breaks between two moves. Three cheers.

Most of these games are courtesy wap mypuk and Cellufun.
There are a whole lot more that I shall brief you about in further posts. Watch this space for more.
So now that you know what a hard-core mobile-gamer I am, I'll stop this monologue with yet another "GAME ON!"

Thumbing Through the Past

I started my tryst with the cellphone at school, when Moothamma (masi) gifted Mom her old cell to use during hospitalization after a hysterectomy. She didn't really use it then, but Mom realized that I'd really taken to the cell. It was a humble blue 2100, quite one of the high end ones in those days. So the cell became mine. And I was officially the youngest owner of a cellphone at school. No-one had my cell number as no-one had a cell to store it in, but I carried it around with me everywhere, feeling all grown-up and busy. Those were not the days when every school kid struts about with an N-70 like now-a-days.

A little more than a year later, when I was fed up of playing Space Impact and Snake II, Pop gifted me my then dream-cellphone. A Nokia 6610i. Don't laugh. By that time cellphone mania had pretty much caught up in colleges and a 2100 was so NOT it. Snort. The rest, as they say (though I'm not sure who "they" are), is History.

I can't imagine a single day without my faithful 6610i. It has been with me through thick and thin, been through the thick and thin spaces I try to stick it into, fallen ten score times, proferred its tender 2-inch display for me to crack, weathered its buttons painfully as I texted away, withstood the onslaught of deadly viruses and back-door worms from my GPRS connection with no more than a sputter and to this day braves my unwieldy maneuvers as I game away on the 40-odd .jar games it can store for me at a time.

I love my cell and am not about to swap it for another in a hurry. (Huh what did you say? N-95? Bring it on! Hehe!)

Beginning Transmission

When I tell someone that I maintain a blog, pat comes the query : "What do you blog about?" Um. Well. Ahem. "Nothing in particular really." But I've tired of umm-ing and ahem-ing every time. Been mulling over this one for a while. I've finally decided that my blog six-pack needs a tribute to the CellPhone. It has long since come to rule my life and lifestyle.

So, that's what this blog's about. Let's see how much crap I can come up with about cellphones.


Read on...