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The NGage Has A New Boxed Game For The First Time In 20 Years (retrododo.com)
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Sure, the fact that new Game Boy games are coming out in 2025 is incredibly exciting, but I bet you didn't think you'd be seeing a new game complete-in-box for the Nokia NGage? 

Say what you want about Nokia's entry into the handheld world (and Nokia's stupidly timed release date competing with the Game Boy Advance), it's still an interesting bit of kit and has a loyal cult following of gamers who still wonder 'what could have been' if the NGage had managed to defy all the odds and become a commercial success.

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[–] inverted_deflector@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

It really was remarkable how hated this device was at the time and I say this as one of the kids online laughing and calling it the taco gauge and ridiculing it for the side talking which lets be real isnt that egregious(and actually in what is likely intentional design the shell around the screen when placed to ear looks a lot like a side profile of an old phone). I do sometimes think back to it and how in hindsight it was just a smartphone that played games.

It was a little too ahead of it's time.