Text... on a phone??? Well that's a novel concept.

If you're not playing Zork on you're phone, you're a fucking nobody. For that matter, if you like computers or computer games and you're not into interactive fiction (specifically INFOCOM), you're a fucking hypocrite. This dude over at gizmo-a-gogo has ported the z-interpreter (the "console" that text games run on top of) to a java app for your phone. The only issue is that occasionally you have to scroll up to read, but since the original games are based on your 80 character wide Apple IIe (or Atari ST) monchrome screen, (and your phone is between 15 and 20 depending on the model) it's par for the course. Get on the bus with this one friends, before you become a hopeless hipster dinosaur who actually buys songs from the iTMS and listens to them wears an Urban Outfitters' t-shirt pushing an $800 stroller around in West Elm looking for Asian inspired candlesticks to match their black-lacquered futon frame.
- posted by Mason @ 9:42 PM