I spent last night looking for interesting things to put on my phone. As well as a seemingly-full version of Sonic The Hedgehog from the Megadrive, some new themes where I can pretend my phone is broken/an aquarium/a surveillance satellite, and a bunch of other rubbish, I came across this. Someone in Sweden is taking the first Legend of Zelda game and transcribing it for Java. It seems to be screen-for-screen, monster-for-monster, item-for-item, but with much prettier graphics. Who needs a DS when you can do all this on a phone you've got already?! You can find a copy of the newest version here, if the original site doesn't work for you (it didn't for me, I think he's getting a lot of traffic) and he is planning a full version by the end of the year (currently it's only the first 6 dungeons and about two thirds of the map). Much more fun than Tetris or Columns, if you ask me, and they're the only other games that I've ever been able to control properly using stupid tiny little phone buttons.I continue to marvel at the fact that we now carry around in our pockets devices with more computing power than those great big chunky computers with the big floppy discs that were the best you could get in the early 90's. And we use them to send each other messages like 'k b there soon cu bye.x' to people we'll see in 15 minutes.
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