@mikey *#Nokia #designer #Voice in #Finnish voicing the #nGage talking to the #SteamDeck* "I'm proiu of you, Granddaughter!"

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@rox_lukas I had the #ngage QD, and I really liked that phone.
Unfortunately, lent the phone to a friend, after it was not my daily one, and he broke it 😢

But I still remember fondly the Pathway to Glory game, and also FIFA

#retrogaming

Here are both of my #SonicN pre-production samples for the #Nokia N-Gage.

Left is B4.2, right is B5.2. These are full releases btw, not just empty display cases. 🙂

#ngage #retrogaming

A new home for my loose #Nokia N-Gage game cards. 🤩 I was searching quite a while to find something like that, as the original cases with room for only four cards each were getting a pain with the amount of cards I have. These ones can hold 20 cards each and are of very high quality. 👍

#ngage #retrogaming

Another addition to my #Nokia N-Gage collection: SonicN B4 pre-production sample as shown at E3 2003.

Now I have game boxes from all phases starting with B3. You can nicely see how the design evolved over time. 🙂

#sonic #ngage #retrogaming

@ngage Seeing this, that was certainly the last N-Gage beta from me. I'm not going to release any further N-Gage dumps as long as these people are around.

On Twitter they did even claim it was a "team effort" by them. Yeah, nice to take credits for stuff you had absolutely nothing to do with. Hint for the next time: before doing such trickery, make sure none of the files are tagged. 😅 Even worse, they pissed off the person who made the game available to me so I could release it. Nice work, guys.

Hope people will see what sort of community that is by now and stop supporting them.

#nokia #ngage #retrogaming

Second last bit: here's the manual.

I might scan this, but it mostly contains bogus text.

#Nokia #ngage #retrogaming

To bring this up again: I'm especially interested in getting in contact with Adrian B. from #Kuju Entertainment Ltd. (no, not Adrian Black 😂 )

#retrogaming #mobile #games #gaming #Nokia #J2ME #ngage

Let's keep this going with revealing the contents of the box. 🙂

Here's the Space Impact "Quick Guide". This is already from a later variant and transformed into the generic "how to use" leaflet included in most of the early N-Gage games (dropped when the QD came out). No translations yet, they just used the English text all over.

In an earlier variant, this was not a leaflet but a booklet. I will show that at some later date as well.

#Nokia #ngage #retrogaming

Neuer, kurzer Artikel dazu auf meiner Website:

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

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

Anyone out there with contacts to former staff members of #Kuju Entertainment? If so, please get in touch with me.

Please boost. Thanks. 🙂

#retrogaming #mobile #games #gaming #Nokia #J2ME #ngage

And here's the box. I'll post pictures of the contents as well, but I really need to stretch this over a few weeks to make the most out of it. 😜

#Nokia #ngage #retrogaming

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

Bounce and Kart Racer / Kart Racing

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

Der "Space Impact Evolution X"-Artikel auf meiner Website hat ein Update bekommen. Ein paar Details kamen hinzu, außerdem Screenshots von B2.0 und B3.0.

#Nokia #ngage #retrogaming

Nach längerer Zeit habe ich mal wieder einen ausführlicheren Blog-Eintrag verfasst, über das Spiel "Space Impact Evolution X" für das Nokia N-Gage.

Viel Spaß beim Lesen. 🙂

http://retro-net.de/?id=94

#Nokia #ngage #retrogaming

Celebrating the finding of the last item on my #Nokia N-Gage wanted list. 🥳 This is the B3 release of Space Impact Evolution X. There was a physical release of B3.2 as well, but I'm not going to hunt for that. This is it - I'm pretty much done with collecting for the N-Gage now. The few known items I still miss don't interest me much.

#ngage #retrogaming

@ngage I have to revise my statement about the card's label looking fishy. I thought all cards of the same game at the same stage of development should look equal, but the more pictures I check, the more wrong that seems to be.

Take a look at these two prototype cards of Super Monkey Ball. Both pictures are legit (the left one is from an IGN staff member), but yet the labels are very different.

#Nokia #ngage

@ngage Ok, now this is interesting. Since he's only 10 minutes away from my location, I was able to visit him yesterday. He had the Taito Memories game shipped already, so no way for me to see it in person. I guess whoever bought it will share photos of it anyway.

But he had more. Nothing he was aware of being prototypes, but two full boxes of Space Impact! 50 pcs. in total. He told me that according to the person he got them from, there were three test-runs made of that game and they were all slightly different. And indeed, when I checked the few pictures I collected over time of Space Impact, I noticed differences I've never noticed before. So he's at least not talking shit.

Badly wanted to buy one of the Space Impact boxes, but we could not agree on a price and I had no money with me anyway. I'll visit him again next week.

#Nokia #ngage

#ngage #test