Friday, February 19, 2010

Countless Free Games!

I DON'T KNOW whether it's my mobile phone having the breakdown now, but I downloaded a game for £4.99 yesterday ~ it was called deBlob and you go around blobbing into them and painting buildings various colours. I soon got tired of it. So I had a look down the list of 62 other games available. No Jet Set Willy (see yesterday), and nothing really caught my eye. But I found one called Anno I liked the look of. By now my credit was about £2.30 because I'd also sent my Dad a video message that cost me nearly £2. So I downloaded the £4.99 game anyhow ~ and it loaded up. After this I got into a loading frenzy and am now the proud possessor of Sim City Metropolis, Earthworm Jim, Edge, McVenture, The Sims 3, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Monopoly World, Trivial Pursuit 2010 and Sonic Unleashed ... that's about £60 worth of games on "paper" (as if phones would use oldfashioned paper these days!!)... but it cost me nothing.

But how did all this happen? Did the phone make a mistake and give me the entire lot free? Are they on 24 hours' approval? Will my next 6 topups get instantly drained as cyber-bailiffs home in to collect the debt?

Do you think the FBI will arrest me when I dare step foot on American soil? Can anybody explain anything about this?

Interestingly it's two of the games I thought would be least interesting that rivetted me most: Edge ~ a cube-rolling vaguely Tetris-like situation that reminds me of the old Adventure Game on BBC2 ("gronda-gronda your royal highness!" said the Chinese lady to the teapot... then the plucky adventurers did indeed brave cyber-squared spreading out to the edge of the universe, and if they lost, fell off into the infinite dark... and good old Monopoly, which I play against my telephone, and am currently winning hands-down!

And how was your day??!?

Edge: phone game review



Monopoly Here And Now World Edition:




Sorry my blog has got about as boring as smelling an old man pissing in a lavatory. I'm sorry, really. I feel so depressed otherwise... what do you want to hear about? How I'm miserable, not sleeping and sporadically drinking too much..?

Last but not least...
The Adventure Game ... hammy acting, not-too-bad-for-1986 special effects and... well ~
Just see for yourselves:






DON'T MISS EASTENDERS' 25th anniversary live episode tonight, BBC1, 8pm if you're in the UK ~ outlanders might be able to view later on BBC America/other carriers... we get to find out WHO KILLED ARCHIE MITCHELL!!

Here's a vid from the soap's hayday, when Den and Angie used to regularly pull in 18 million plus viewers... that's equivalent to a 90,000,000 rating in the US of A. Not bad for a shoestring soap, eh?



No! Apparently BBC America have ceased airing Eastenders... but in 2004 The Dish Network picked it up. (Airing episodes 5 years behind...!) So if you're a lucky viewer, you'll know what I'm talking about sometime come 2015..!

Oh what a cute furry entertainer!

6 comments:

  1. I've never downloaded anything to my phone because I don't understand downloads and would probably land myself with a huge bill!

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  2. I'm not on a monthly contract so I feel free to just swap SIM cards if anything irritating DID happen to my present account... know what I mean..?!?

    ;->...

    I don't blame you though. I've nearly come a cropper through loopholes in Ts and Cs before... only found out at the last minute what the catches were, so didn't get caught out.

    E.g. pay monthly as opposed to pay-as-you-go mobile broadband charges 30p per megabyte overrun costs... which doesn't sound a lot. Until you realize that is £300 per gigabyte..! And the standard fee for a pay-&-go 1-month 1-gb top-up is £10!!

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  3. I have T-moble, and I buy minutes not games. But then again, I don't do much with my cell phone, its for emergencies and when my daughter need something, only.

    Janice~

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  4. They have TMOBILE in Los Angeles?

    ??!?

    I wondered why they dropped the perfectly good name one-2-one in favour of something I knew was foreign (but from where I hadn't a clue till you just told me)...

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  5. There are about 22,000 apps for the iPhone so there are endless games and such to download. I have a couple of card games but don't have time for much else, although the Trivial Pursuit sounds interesting. I'll check to see if there is an app for that.

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  6. It's when you start looking forward to Midsomer Murders as the highlight of your week that it's time to worry. (Oh dear, I'd better start worrying!)

    Oh Gleds! Why can't you find a good doctor or a nurse or someone who can help you?

    By the way, I've just got re-addicted to Tetris.

    Bless you. Lots of us care about you.

    Now my verifier is soarboar! Are you like a boar with a soar head?!!

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