![]() There’s some confusion about which phone was the first to feature a game. You also picked up upgrades for your bot along the way. With no GPS on board, the game used Cell-ID (with help from the carrier) to shoot at competing bots by sending text messages. One of the first, perhaps the first, is BotFighters. Pokemon Go was another mobile gaming craze (it’s still pretty popular), but is far from the first ever location-based game. Mozzies was an AR shooter for the Siemens SX1 Note that this was before accelerometers, gyros and compasses were a standard part of a smartphone’s arsenal. ![]() You look around to aim – an impressive feat on a 120MHz single core processor. Who remembers Mozzies on Siemens SX1? It’s an AR game that uses the screen and camera to turn the phone into a mosquito-killing gun. But it doesn’t need 5G networks, not even close. If you followed the MWC this year, you’ll know that Augmented Reality is a big deal. Munkiki's Castles showed that you don't need a high res screen or even colors to play 3D games Munkiki's Castles was a 3D platformer/puzzle game that made the best out of the tiny monochrome screen. The Nokia 3410 had a tiny screen with 96 x 65 pixels, no way it could do 3D, right? Wrong. And even if you remember the old 3D J2ME games, you may still be surprised at how old the first 3D games on mobile are. You may think that 3D gaming is something that arrived with the more powerful chipsets of smartphones. Did you know the company is based in Espoo? No surprise so many of its games were featured on Nokia phones. Rovio has a long list of fun games to its name – both original and ports. But do you remember the Bounce games? They date as far back as Snake, starting with the Nokia 9210 Communicator. Speaking of Rovio, you probably remember Angry Birds. The latest sequel was Space Impact: Meteor Shield, developed by Rovio for the Nokia N97. Space Impact would see multiple sequels, including entries on the failed N-Gage gaming phone. This was done through Nokia Club, which also hosted a global scoreboard. The WAP-enabled Nokias even allowed you to download new chapters for the game (for free, this was before DLC). The Nokia 3310, for example, also featured Space Impact a horizontal shoot ‘em up. Just like the actually-rugged Nokias, these games were forgotten and they don’t deserve such a fate. We’re not saying that Snake isn’t a great game, but it’s far from the only one. In fact, the relaunch of the 3310 leaned heavily on Snake. Similarly, people view the game Snake through rose-colored glasses. The Nokia 3310 is a nostalgia machine – people remember it as indestructible, even though it’s not the most rugged phone form Nokia. This game has been published on, and updated on. It is a game played in portrait and it's playable on Desktop and Mobile on. This game has received 1070 votes, 725 positive ones and 345 negative ones and has an average score of 3.5. Snake Nokia belongs to Arcade, Kids and it is often associated with Snake Games and Fun Games. The more food you eat, the more difficult it gets – and this is a game that’s easy to pick up but still offers a challenge after hours of practice. ![]() Eat food and you’ll grow longer (and speed up). It looks exactly the same as it did on the old Nokia 3310! You’ll take control of a growing snake that slithers across a grid. This version of the game is in HTML5, and therefore playable on any device with a web-browser. Since then, the format has exploded in popularity, with hundreds of different versions available on the various app-stores. Back in 1998, Nokia decided to release a version of the classic snake game on its mobile devices.
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