Technology

REMEMBER THIS: The Nokia N-Gage

By Samad Robinson

October 05, 2017

The N-Gage was ahead of its time I don’t care what anybody says. Maybe it was way too far ahead of its time it had a short lifespan. The N-Gage was a PDA, Phone, and Handheld gaming system. Little did we know in 2003 that smartphones were the future and we would have games, email, and text in the palm of our hands.

The N-Gage was a unique device without a doubt. They had their own gaming cartridge. They wanted people to get the N-Gage and give up on the Game Boy Advance at the time. For $299 Nokia may have priced its way out of the game(no pun). For me, at that time I was very interested in the N-Gage, but the asking price was just too high for me. In 2003 I could have got a PS2 for $200 – $179. So getting an N-Gage was out of the question.

Nokia did manage to sell an estimated 3 million N-Gage devices. Here is a list of all of the games created just for the N-Gage.

Ashen Asphalt Urban GT Asphalt Urban GT 2 Atari Masterpieces Vol. I Atari Masterpieces Vol. II Bomberman Call of Duty Catan Civilization II Colin McRae Rally 2005 Crash Nitro Kart FIFA Football 2004 FIFA Football 2005 Flo-Boarding (pack-in, Europe only) Glimmerati High Seize King of Fighters EXTREME Marcel Desailly Pro Soccer Mile High Pinball MLB Slam Moto GP NCAA Football 2004 ONE Operation Shadow Pandemonium Pathway to Glory Pathway to Glory: Ikusa Islands Payload Pocket Kingdom Puyo Pop Puzzle Bobble VS Rayman 3 Red Faction Requiem of Hell Rifts: Promise of Power Snakes Sega Rally (Australia and Brazil only) SonicN Spider-Man 2 SSX: Out of Bounds Super Monkey Ball System Rush The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey The Roots: Gates of Chaos The Sims Bustin’ Out Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Team Stealth Action Tomb Raider Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Virtua Cop (Port for N-Gage planned but never released) Virtua Tennis Warhammer 40,000: Glory in Death Worms World Party WWE Aftershock Xanadu Next X-Men Legends X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse

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