#ngage — Public Fediverse posts

Aquí alcanzamos la cuspide del juego móvil, a partir de aquí se fue poco a poco enshitificando con micropagos, dlcs, lootboxes, servicios, subscripciones y dejaron de ser juegos.

Que olvidada está la epoca #j2ME ( curiosamente la #ngage si q se ha mantenido en el candelero, formato físico y esas cosas 😓) y q juegarrales hay.

Y si, es un glorioso #nokian95 (el cual me deja instalar todo, cosa q no deberia xo no recuerdo haberlo desprotegido 🤯👌)

Tal dia com avui de 2005 ens arribava "Xanadu Next" per "N-Gage" 🕹🎮. #XanaduNext #DragonSlayer #Xanadu #NGage #JocDeRol #HackAndSlashBeatEmUp #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #ClassicGaming #RetroGames #VideojocsAntics

Still no luck finding out what finally happened to Bounce and for that matter also to Virtually Board Snowboarding II, which were - together with Kart Racing - the three launch titles developed "in-house" by #Nokia (by #Kuju actually) as evidenced by the attached magazine scan.

For VBSB2, I know at least from a former Nokia employee that the developers constantly missed milestones, but that does not really explain much. It was certainly not cancelled before July 2003, as the Nokia Academy CD from that month still lists it as a launch game.

#RetroGaming #NGage #Mobile #unreleased #GTW

Here they are! Enjoy this great selection of J2ME games incl. many of the "uPlay Mobile" games, some of which were not available until now.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/iny0ky88fxhu848/j2me_games.7z/file

#s60 #j2me #nokia #retrogaming #ngage

#Pandemonium! B5.2 pre-release copy for the #Nokia N-Gage. Owning the same of SonicN for ages already, I was after this for quite some time. But every search comes to an end. 🙂

This is special not so much for being a pre-release, but because of the completely different artwork used compared to the final retail release.

#NGage #RetroGaming

Sights around #Tampere this week

#Vapriikki #Ngage #Manserock #Nokia #graffiti #streetart #laukontori

This early version gives some very nice insights into the game's development. First, I can bust a myth: The #Nokia N-Gage version is not a port of the PlayStation game! Instead, it's a direct port of the #iPaq version from 2001. Pretty much all of the iPaq code is still there (incl. FMV stuff), they just made what was needed to get it working on the N-Gage.

Even some (unused) assets are still there and the level file is taken unmodified from the iPaq version, too.

I really need to dig deeper into this. 🙂

#ngage #TombRaider #RetroGaming #mobile #prototype

Between 2002 and 2004, #Ubisoft had a service in the UK called uPlay Mobile (yes, uPlay - a name they would later recycle). Over this service, you could buy & download mobile games for your phone. There were even "physical" copies you could buy in stores, but these were just empty boxes with a download code.

That service is long gone and so is access to the games. People sometimes offer the empty game boxes on eBay for crazy prices claiming they are for the Nokia N-Gage - but they are not. They are Java MIDlets, so not even native #S60 apps. They run of course on the N-Gage, too.

Anyway, before this is getting too long: while doing research on something else, I was able to get in touch with a person who was involved in this. And he had a nice archive of many of the uPlay Mobile games that he backed up back in the day. Not all of the 20+ games, but a good part of it. I'm not sure if these are already preserved yet - I have to look into this.

More to come!

#RetroGaming #NGage

Two more planned #Nokia N-Gage launch titles that had prototypes done but never made it past that:

Bounce and Kart Racer (or Kart Racing, depending on the source)

Anyone out there with contacts to former staff members of #Kuju Entertainment? If so, please get in touch with me. I'm especially interested in getting in contact with Adrian B. (no, not Adrian Black 😂 )

Please boost. Thanks. 🙂

#ngage #RetroGaming #Symbian #s60 #prototype #unreleased

After having had the B4.1 #beta of #Pandemonium! for the #Nokia N-Gage for quite some time, I finally got my hands on the B5.2 card as well. Another one to remove from my wanted list. 🙂

Label is rather worn, but given the rarety of those cards, I can live with that.

#ngage #retrogaming

Neuer, kurzer Artikel dazu auf meiner Website:

http://retro-net.de/?id=95

#Nokia #ngage #retrogaming #prototype #Symbian #S60

Did you know that not only games for the #Nokia N-Gage came on MMC? A few generic #S60 games were released in physical form as well. I have these in my collection:

Stunt Car Extreme
Trivial Pursuit
Atari Retro

#RetroGaming #ngage #Atari