N-Gage

Entry posted by atari2600land November 11, 2019

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So I just ordered a copy of Warhammer for N-Gage off eBay. And if everything goes well, all I'd need for a complete boxed US collection is Civilization. I'm not going to even try to get Sega Rally (a CIB copy is on eBay now...for $500). But I do wonder a few things. #1 - Why wasn't the N-Gage successful? I remember hearing about it back when it was new and thought it seemed pretty cool, but the one thing that put me off was I thought I needed a cell phone plan to play the games. Now I know that isn't the case, though. Perhaps if it had more games? Which leads to question #2:

#2 - How do I make a game for the N-Gage? I have that only homebrew N-Gage game, Super Fighter Block Battle. I put on a card. But I want to make an N-Gage compatible game. But I don't know how. I'd love to be able to play a game I made on a console I love. I think I googled the topic once, and it led me to me asking the question on AtariAge, which wasn't much help.

I have a QD which is lovely because it has a cartridge slot. The original N-Gage, you had to take out the battery and change the game under it, which leads to a question of "Why? What were they thinking?" But, I guess eventually the idea of handheld devices that play video games have gone down the toilet due to Nintendo's Switch. Sony didn't put anything out after the Vita and Microsoft never tried at all.

Which is too bad because I love the idea of portable gaming but I don't want to download some dumb game to my smart phone. I miss the days when I could walk into a store and look at all the DS games there and look through them. Store bought games are going to be a thing of the past, and it sucks because I want to have a collection of physical media, something that shows the scope of my collection and how much time I put into collecting it.

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