Remember the NGage? For those who don’t, it was Nokia’s (yes, we know it’s Nokia day today) idea to combine a Gameboy-like device and a cellphone. While the concept was sound, the final product sucked. Badly. It was expensive, underpowered, hard to use, and ugly as sin.
But NGage is back, this time as a game platform for Nokia’s N-series mobile phones, and it’s available for download today.
It’s something of a hack to get it onto your phone, but any S60 user would be remiss to not at least give it a try.
Ngage First access install for N95 8GB and other N-Seres devices! Direct download here! [Finest Fones]
Mobile phones have all the attributes of a games machine: a screen, memory, processing power and an input device. They also have the advantage of connectivity. So it is of little surprise, given the sheer numbers, that the most distributed and the most played game in the world today is Snake on Nokia handsets. Yet this is a false beacon because mobile phone gaming is a very tiny fraction of the size that it should and could be.