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This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone

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Submitted ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

    /s

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    • TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What are you talking about? Ringtones were the original paid cosmetics!

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      • Thrife@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ringtones and these Logo banners!

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      • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Could you get ringtones on Nokia 3210/3310 ?

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Excellent point about ads. Yes I still remember when every internet site DID NOT have advertising

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      • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Back then, websites didn’t need to show ads. They just distributed adware. Those days are long gone…

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      • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There was a time when websites had hours.

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    • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you want free games with minimal functionality there is always f-droid.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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 had downloadable missions.

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      • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ad break

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  • tomiant@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You were also able to type out a message and send it using a single hand, you only needed to recharge the phone once a week, and it didn’t shatter like an icicle if you so much as sneezed at it, it was cheap and it didn’t spy on you. Smart phones is the dumbest thing that happened to humanity.

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Once a week? Those things could go pretty much forever on a single charge so long as you weren’t making calls, even with batteries that had a tiny fraction of modern capacity due to their simple hardware.

      Nowadays even a completely idle smartphone on extreme power saving mode is lucky to last a couple of days, especially if you don’t/can’t disable the vendor-mandated bloatware that periodically wakes it up to phone home. When used regularly, it’s not uncommon for a phone to drain within a single day.

      Sometimes I miss the simple, rugged designs - right up until I remember how much better smartphones are at literally everything else. Still wish companies would get the memo and focus on bigger batteries rather than smaller phones, though.

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  • SektorC@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The fucking battery is almost empty after just three days! Just because I played Snake every break.

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  • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is what they took from us.

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How dare they!

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  • nothingcorporate@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Snake > Snake 2

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember paying 3$ for a ringtone

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I remember ringback tones. When you wanted to inflict your music tastes on literally anyone who called you.

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I remember reading sketchy guides on how to add custom ringtones without needing to pay for the privilege. Arbitrary restrictions on user folder access predate Android.

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      • JenIsBringingTheDrugs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I remember putting .jar (I think) games on my flip phone, when I discovered that it was like a whole new world. Sd card loaded with as many games I could find haha

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bring-ding-ding-ding

      Bring-ding-ding-ding

      Baaa-ba-ba-Bowaaaaar

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    • CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I remember making my own ringtone on the Nokia

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  • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still have one of these somewhere. It didn’t break but the charger did

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  • Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • tomiant@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Aye, it be true. It done been like the man say’th!

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mistakes were made along the way.

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  • CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Everyone Nokia user knows that Space Impact was a better game than Snake

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Later on I got a phone with Bounce, now that was the tits

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      • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Snake > Space Impact > Bounce

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    • CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There were at least two different versions of it. The one where the second and third level are in the space ship (not on some sort of a bouncy rover thing) is the jam

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to code ringtones into peoples phones in exchange for cigarettes.

    Last Resort by Papa Roach was most popular followed by Better Off Alone by DJ Sammy, because they both sounded killer in twangy Nokia synth.

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    • wunami@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Better Off Alone was by Alice Deejay.

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      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Shit why am I thinking DJ Sammy? Old man moment

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  • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now cell phone games play you.

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  • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And you could use the IR blaster to play multiplayer games.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m tired of the smart phones and their addictive games and whistles, just give me a phone that only does call not that “texting” BS and only one ring you cannot change !

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    • Stitch0815@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Stuff like that exist more or less i don’t know if there is a phone that can’t even send SMS but there are phones with e-ink displays only doing calls sms and caleder.

      You could also install a launcher on any android device that mimiks this

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