Mobile Phone Games

• I'm pretty sure that my, not particularly great, mobile phone has more computational power than that main frame I mentioned in the early online game page.
• Despite all that computation, they make really good light clients.
• That is, you play a multi user game on your phone, and most of the computation is done somewhere else.
• Of course there are also games that are dedicated to run on your phone. (I play a skiing game.) They're not distributed.
• If you have a light client, you need to send more data. Typically, the phone company makes its money by selling bandwidth.
• The computational cycles are free.
• The iPhone is a good example here. You can play poker with up to 8 people. Note that has low bandwidth.
• You can play quake, but I'm not sure if that's multiuser.