Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “THE EVOLUTION OF MOBILE PHONE GAMES!”.
Does this sound mean anything to you to many people? This is joy. This is happiness. This is exhilaration and fear. At the same time, welcome to mobile gaming – and this is where it all began, released in 1989 by company Nintendo, the Gameboy was inspiring a generation it. Finally, convinced people that actually there’s huge amount of joy to be able to slip this device into your pocket and take it wherever you go. While there were multiple iterations of these sort of portable consoles after the Gameboy, it was Nokia who really first brought the idea onto a mobile phone with their Nokia 6.
1. 1 0. Each phone came bundled with the game’s snake.
Little did not. You know that this game was about to change the face of the gaming market, while it’s merely just a few lines and a dot snake changed the very functionality of mobile phones. It changed the way people use those devices as potential forms of entertainment. After seeing the huge soaring success of snake developers really wants to latch on to the idea, many games are created specifically for the mobile platform for the first time ever.
None of them really had the same success of snake, though, and these games are very clearly limited by the processing power and the screens on offer on these devices. The development of wireless application protocol, better known nowadays as W ap allowed more complex operating systems to be formed, and with that came things like color displays the benefit of that being able to actually create an image that people can see as opposed to them. Just looking at a bunch of pixels was huge for the gaming landscape on mobile phones.
Developers started to latch on to the idea developing games cult classics like pac-man, like Tetris, was finally great for the mobile devices. The Java platform was significantly more powerful than anything before it and we finally started to see console game developers and big brand names appearing on mobile phones. We saw things like Splinter Cell things like monkey ball, even games that we recognized today we’ll finally playable on mobile devices.
Now, even though today Nokia is kind of seen as more of a sideline to companies like Samsung and Apple back in the day, this was the one company everyone routing for after the previous success of their mobile phones. Nokia released the n-gage, and this was the first ever console / mobile hybrid. It could play franchise things like Call of Duty things like Colin McRae, and it was really really impressive to look at. However, due to a lack of sales, the device just didn’t take off the whole idea was great, but the buttons and the whole configuration was a little bit awkward to play on and then came the BlackBerry, which, to be honest, is probably the first phone that we Would have actually considered smart by today’s standards. It had a huge amount of functionality and in terms of gaming, it was slightly more powerful than the Java platform. So it could effectively play even more complex titles, but still nothing too much in the way of 3d games, and then it happened.
2007, Steve Jobs stood on that stage and announced the iPhone and this whether or not he knew it at the time was about to change the face of the entire planet. A 3.5 inch touchscreen display far larger than ever seen before on a smartphone access to an app store. These things change the whole face of the smartphone industry and then came the big it is games like Angry Birds, games like fieldrunners.
These would make people green with envy all of a sudden. There was a reason to have this iPhone above the fact that it has a cool display. What happened next was a big surprise to many people along came a rival platform, namely Android released originally on the HTC dream, which, to be honest at the time, was quite the opposite.
A dream to use Android was a bit fragmented, messy and even glitchy, but what people didn’t anticipate is how quickly Google was going to make up for this. The company just did not stop smartphone after smartphone bombarded the market game after game, the App Store and the app market developed at the same time as the user base expanded the application development accelerated on both platforms, big-name developers all wanted to get onto the Android platform, Because it was no longer that niche market that no one really cared about it was the next big thing. Mobile gaming just got pretty serious. We’Ve got titles like modern, combat 5 ones like asphalt, 8 games that actually rival the console landscape games.
That look and feel like they were designed to be played on a giant TV but they’re in your pocket. As for the future, who really knows I mean 10 years ago? What people are predicted that, in a phone 5 inches thin, you could have the graphical horsepower of something the size of a TV box. Back then, probably not with things like flexible displays, hologram technology, graphene batteries, who knows what the future of phones is. You know is how powerful, how incredible and immersive those experiences could be.
All I can say is the future looks bright thanks for watching I’m mister user boss, and this is insanely cool tech. You .