Nokia - Games

Today, you can play Snake on a $1,200 folding smartphone. It’s a Google easter egg. A retro novelty. But it’s not the same.

They were not games in the modern sense. They were distractions . Little more than digital fidget toys embedded in the firmware of an indestructible brick. And yet, for a generation that grew up between the death of the arcade and the birth of the smartphone, Snake was not just a game. It was a rite of passage. Nokia Games

We cannot write this piece without bowing our heads to the N-Gage. Nokia’s attempt to kill the Game Boy Advance was a glorious, sideways-talking disaster. It looked like a taco. You had to hold it to your ear like a sideways calculator to make a call. The memory cards required you to remove the battery. Today, you can play Snake on a $1,200 folding smartphone