Do people actually had these? It was a meme, right?

i wanted it as kid 20 years ago but thankfully i dodged a bullet for not getting it.

Nothing beats motorola razer flip phone

THAT was the shit

It was the best way to play portable THPS until THUG2 Remix on PSP.

Yes, they did, ESL-kun.

I saw someone with one in 2007 but that's about it.

It was treated as a joke everywhere, no one online took it seriously. Then phones and tablets started getting games like Infinity Blade and we stopped laughing.

it was almost a 1:1 port of a PS1 game while everyone was on GBA's and it was personally the only THPS I played until I bought a Dreamcast version of 1 20 years later.

pretty crazy that 20 years later phone games are still shit.

I'm this anon: The guy I knew who had one was a poorfag. Still is a poorfag to this day, actually, I used to run into him from time to time because he was a retail wagie and would be working at a store I'd go to. He must have saved up some money from the job he was working back then to get one. I had a DS and a PSP. I knew some other people who had the DS because a lot of the people I knew were tendies. If I knew the anime club fuckers better I'd bet some of them had a PSP too. This was all like 20 years ago though.

3,000,000 of them sold

Lack of physical buttons, duh.

goatse

I traded my phone for my friends N-GAGE because he hated it. I think I used it twice and then begged my parents for a 3310 again.

hey let's make a phone that you hold sideways to make calls on

also let's make it play games

cartridge slot? Oh, we have room behind THE BATTERY for it, let's put it there

The remodel of it fixed that issue, yeah?

I had the original and QD a long time ago. Pathway to Glory is my favorite game on that thing, second is worms world party port. Red faction is barely playable. Pocket kingdom is auto battle trash. The best thing is it can also run java games aka actually good mobile games before the micro transaction trash flood android because google can't design premium marketplace for shit. Some of them have the best 2d pixel art because phones don't have the best resolution and mobile internet are trash back then, so devs can't put in high quality pictures in their games and have to improvise.

My brother had one and it was shit.

yes but it has a mono speaker and no native mp3 player.

My classmate in high school had one. I had a lower-tier phone but we were still able to play multiplayer during classes. There was a cool 2 player slasher game we played together sorta like golden axe. Anyway, the phone itself was fine, definitely more comfortable to play games on than an average phone at the time.

N-GAPE

Obviously it existed and yes it was shit and looks as bad as it is.

I had the QD. It was a meme all right.

razer 2 beat it

I had one and it was ok

I had one and I liked it.

While there's a sudden N-gage thread, I wanna mention the fact, that Ashen was the best N-gage game. It was made by Torus games, who did some technically impressive GBA FPSes of all things. Now I kinda want a playable port o Ashen for modern systems.

I had one and it was great, threw it away when one of the buttons broke and I still feel regret for doing it

Ashen was kino, but for me it's Mile High Pinball. Never got to the 1000th floor. N-gage was able to emulate game boy and NES without much problems and that was impressive in 2003. I still remember the good times playing Worms with my classmates. Eight players and one n-gage, that was heaven for us.

Yes. It also had an audio in btw, I used to record music from my Discman as mp3s on it; think of this as a really early smartphone

Then phones and tablets started getting games like Infinity Blade and we stopped laughing.

There's like almost a decade of time between this thing coming out and infinity blade.

3 MILLION SOLD
and still never met a single one that had one of those during those times

I've seen only a couple N-gage users beside myself (and now that I think about it, that's kind of a lot), and the only game they were interested in was Asphalt 2.

Yeah I mean look at this shit. Gaming on phone was an activity you had to rely on when bored at school if you were too poor to get a GBA. It was uncomfortable because numpads weren't meant for gaming.
And so when I saw this abomination drawing near I felt only confusion, and nobody on earth could bring me an answer to those simple questions: WHY BUY THIS SHIT WHEN I CAN PLAY WITH A GBA?
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH THE SCREEN'S FORMAT?
IS THERE ANYTHING TO PLAY OUTSIDE OF TOMB RAIDER AND SPLINTER CELL?

I tested one it sucked dick as a phone and game

I had the QD. It was a crappy phone and a crappy gaming console, but Pathway to Glory and Rifts were genuinely great.

Where you gonna find other guys to play the ngage with using Bluetooth? Weirdoville?

I worked at a Gamestop when this came out. I don't ever remember moving a single unit or game for it in the 2 years I was there

Oh yeah I forgot it's a phone so I guess you can play multiplayer phone games with other phone users or something

A designer made it look like goatse as a joke because he thought someone notice and tell him to change it, but nobody did.

For some reason there were a bunch of them at my school.

I can't believe Steam Deck barely outsold this monster of a machine!

cartridge slot?

You were supposed to get a decent SD carts and pirate your games like a human.

hey let's make a phone that you hold sideways to make calls on

This is like hearing zoomers talk about the N64 controller. "Ohhh, 3 hands?! lmao"

I-

Do people actually had

ESL moment :^D

It was uncomfortable

It was perfectly comfortable, because the d-pad was good and the 5 and 7 button were elevated.

WHY BUY THIS SHIT WHEN I CAN PLAY WITH A GBA?

It can make calls, play mp3s and actually fits in your pocket.

It was the deck of the 2000's

What if the buttons are the way they are because of ergonomics? What if the random Anon Babble screenshot made it up?

Miss the times when goatse was a normie meme