Nokia Games

A digital version of the traditional Mancala board game.

The N-Gage taught the industry that players wanted more than just simple puzzles, encouraging developers to invest in complex mobile titles. Nokia Games

Do you still have an old Nokia in a drawer somewhere? Charge it up. Snake is waiting for you. A digital version of the traditional Mancala board game

This was the era of Nokia Games.

taught the world that mobile gaming could be mainstream. Before the iPhone proved that touch screens were viable for gaming, Nokia proved that everyone—regardless of age or technical skill—carried a gaming device in their pocket. Charge it up

Before the iPhone dominated our pockets and the App Store became a trillion-dollar economy, there was a different kind of mobile gaming king. It didn’t have a retina display, a gyroscope, or cloud saves. It had a monochrome or slightly green-tinted backlit screen, a battery that lasted for two weeks, and an indestructible plastic shell.