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Damn you Bejeweled 2, Damn you to HELL!

I always said I would never be a mobile gamer. I laughed with smug superiority when Ed Helms on the Daily Show ripped on the Nokia Spiderman game: "It's a completely immersive... 1 inch by 3/4 inch experience... Really the old downside is you're a 36 year old man excited about playing Spiderman on your cell phone." Unfortunately it's my sad duty to admit that my name is Jon, and I am a mobile game-a-holic. Well, really it's only one game: Bejeweled 2. And it's not really a "mobile game" per se as you don't download it via a cell carrier. It's an app that I had to download and install on my Treo 650 the old fashioned way: with a hotsync cable. Watch me rationalize, isn't it charming. B2 (as we addicts call it) is the perfect puzzle game - you can play it quickly or get sucked in for hours. It has power ups. It has simple graphics that do the job perfectly. It has the classic "just one more try and I can beat my high score" addiction power. I play it while waiting for the train. I play it on the train. I play it after dinner. I can't STOP. Part of the reason is that I have a personal mission to destroy Ballgame's high score. But mainly it's just super fun, addictive, and doesn't leave me feeling a crippled wreck afterwards (like last night's Unreal Tournament 2004 session did). Damn you Pop Cap Games. Damn you Astraware! Now where did I leave off? Oh yes, on level 7 with 14000 points...