This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone
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What are you talking about? Ringtones were the original paid cosmetics!
Ringtones and these Logo banners!
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It was so sad you could not watch a 30 seconds ad to revive back then. No cosmetics to buy, nothing. Just an ugly snake running around.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]Actually, Nokia's first Java phone, 3410 (the one on the right except with a different key layout) featured a store with downloadable games, ringtones, screensavers, picture messages etc. Czech provider Eurotel distributed the first 3D Java game Munkiki's Castles as a loss leader, and Space Impact came preinstalled but was very short unless you paid for downloadable missions.
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Ringtones and these Logo banners!
I remember there was a shitty website where you could buy credits to spend on banners and ringtones, but their website was utter trash that you could modify it and get them for free, so just got them all to fuck around with.
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Same era, I used to playing games on my calculator. I suppose you still can, but I used to do it. I remember I had RISK on my TI-89, but the games on my TI-82 were on par with the version of snake shown in the post. We would even trade the games around with the kids that didn't have a computer and/or Internet at home. We'd connect them with funky little cables that looked like audio jacks.
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This is what they took from us.
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What are you talking about? Ringtones were the original paid cosmetics!
Could you get ringtones on Nokia 3210/3310 ?
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Could you get ringtones on Nokia 3210/3310 ?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yes. You could pay some geek to type it in during recess.
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Yes. You could pay some geek to type it in during recess.
Oh, I had forgotten about about that feature. I was like 4yo back then.
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Actually, Nokia's first Java phone, 3410 (the one on the right except with a different key layout) featured a store with downloadable games, ringtones, screensavers, picture messages etc. Czech provider Eurotel distributed the first 3D Java game Munkiki's Castles as a loss leader, and Space Impact came preinstalled but was very short unless you paid for downloadable missions.
I used to work for a J2ME mobile games developer. Fun times but it was wild west. They didn't properly standardize the API so each mobile phone had its own glitches, incompatibilities and extra APIs and the emulatos were not very accurate either. That meant we basically had to have pretty much all phones there to test the games.
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Yes. You could pay some geek to type it in during recess.
Or have them (or operator logos, which were effectively wallpapers) sent over RTTTL texts. With WAP, actual wallpapers, screensavers, polyphonic ringtones, games etc. became available too.
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Or have them (or operator logos, which were effectively wallpapers) sent over RTTTL texts. With WAP, actual wallpapers, screensavers, polyphonic ringtones, games etc. became available too.
That was a little later than 3210/3310.
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It was so sad you could not watch a 30 seconds ad to revive back then. No cosmetics to buy, nothing. Just an ugly snake running around.
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Ad break
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This is what they took from us.
How dare they!
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It was so sad you could not watch a 30 seconds ad to revive back then. No cosmetics to buy, nothing. Just an ugly snake running around.
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Excellent point about ads. Yes I still remember when every internet site DID NOT have advertising
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Excellent point about ads. Yes I still remember when every internet site DID NOT have advertising
There was a time when websites had hours.
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Excellent point about ads. Yes I still remember when every internet site DID NOT have advertising
Back then, websites didn't need to show ads. They just distributed adware. Those days are long gone...
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Now cell phone games play you.
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I remember there was a shitty website where you could buy credits to spend on banners and ringtones, but their website was utter trash that you could modify it and get them for free, so just got them all to fuck around with.
Millennial WAP
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Mistakes were made along the way.
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That was a little later than 3210/3310.
iirc on the 3310 you needed Nokia's logo manager software
The one I really enjoyed was the 8110? I think. The one that was in the matrix with the slider. That one was a ton of fun to customize, different rings depending on the group (family, friends, etc)
