Pre-Smartphone Mobile Games
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Do old Java/J2ME cell phone games count as retro? They really don't seem like a thing anymore now that almost everybody's got smartphones.
>>3189364
EDGE was also great game.
I think if i can dig up my old phone it should still be on it.
Bubble bobble port deserves mention.
Bumping out of interest
Kinda sad that a lot of those pre smart phone games are lost like tears in rain,
But then I remember how most of them were shit, only really remember playing saints row, was a pretty shitty GTA clone
>>3189390
The way I see it, both mobile games and plug-n-play TV games have yet to be properly archived for some reason. It's like nobody really cares about them enough to save them.
Who knew turn based doom would be cool?
Anyone remembers Sola Rola?
>>3189421
>The way I see it, both mobile games and plug-n-play TV games have yet to be properly archived for some reason.
I really like plug-n-play games for some reason. Most of them are bad, but they were so popular and then died when people started buying HDTVs and actually cared about video quality.
Like, they were right at the edge of when the world turned high-tech. Before HDTVs, smartphones and high-speed internet took over.
All release dates I can find are after 2000 so they aren't retro. Only simple stuff like Snake should count.
I remember the Guitar Hero mobile port being surprisingly entertaining, even though it only used three buttons
>>3189421
>It's like nobody really cares about them enough to save them.
Sad but true.
I imagine a lot of plug-n-play systems may have had specialized hardware or something, at least among different companies. It's probably more effort than it's worth to salvage them.
With pre-smartphone mobile games I'd imagine the only backups are kept in some old files on old company computers, so they're likely already gone from being thrown out or deleted, and if not they're just lost in the archives until the company decides to do some cleaning.
It's sad. At the same time though, if there were anything really valuable in all this it would've been saved. Beyond being a stepping stone in the history of mobile gaming, there's not much to them. It was very rare to find one that was quality, at least from what I remember.
>>3189390
Most Eastern Europe and Indian websites still have them.
