I discovered Mafia Wars by Zynga on the prompting of a FaceBook friend of mine. The way she described it was that it’s a game she feels compelled to play anytime she has free time on the internet. I didn’t want to be left out of all the action so I joined though my FaceBook account.
My initial impression is that the game reminds me of those classic text-based games I used to play in the 1980s. I, preferring the more visual/realistic shoot-em-up type games, do admit that I wasn’t too impressed at this seemingly simple no-brainer temptation.









