Mobile Phone Game
By 1997, cell phones were everywhere, and PDA functions were being built into them. They had small LCD screens, similar in resolution and color to the displays of 1970s microcomputers like the Apple II. So Nokia decided to put a '70s computer gaming classic, Snake, into one of their phones. Thus was born a new platform for video games.
The rise of camera phones a few years later greatly improved the hardware. Modern mobile phones have gaming horsepower equivalent to 5th or 6th generation consoles such as the Nintendo Gamecube, Sega Dreamcast, Play Station 2, and X Box. The iPhone in particular, with its heavily developed "App Store", and its subsequent tablet-lovechild the iPad, has shown itself to be an actual gaming platform, as to a lesser extent (due in part to widely varying hardware) has Google's Android.
Systems
- IOS Games
- Android Games
- And others
Games:
- Act Raiser
- Age of Empires I and III
- Angry Birds
- Bejeweled 1 and 2
- Bounce
- Breakout (and innumerable clones)
- Call of Duty 1-3
- Chaos Rings
- Chips Challenge
- Chronicles of Inotia Children of Carnia
- Chuckie Egg
- Doodle Jump
- Double Dragon
- Dragon Quest Monsters Mobile
- Drakengard
- The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold
- Final Fantasy
- Friends Of Mana
- Front Mission 2089
- Furdiburb
- Gamevil Pro Baseball
- Grand Theft Auto III
- Guitar Hero III
- Insaniquarium
- Kingdom Heartscoded
- Madden NFL
- "Life Is Crime"
- Monopoly
- Makai Toshi Sa Ga
- Nightmare Creatures
- Paperboy
- Numerous Poker variations
- Q Bert
- Quake I
- Quake III Arena
- Ratchet and Clank: Going Mobile
- Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
- Sim City 2000
- Snake
- Song Summoner
- Space Invaders Infinity Gene
- Space Trader
- Tetris
- Tibia
- Tomb Raider
- Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2
- Towers of Hanoi
- Tradewinds
- Ultima Underworld
- The War of Eustrath
- Worms World Party
- Ys I, II, IV, VI
- Zuma