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Tetris on the Hagenuk MT-2000
As such, it is no surprise that it was none other than Tetris that made an appearance as the first game featured on a cellphone. Tetris appeared as the first mobile game in 1994 aboard the Hagenuk MT-2000, a phone designed and manufactured in Denmark by the Hagenuk corporation. -
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Touch Screen
E.A. Johnson is believed to be the first to develop the touchscreen in 1965. But the tablet, which was patented in 1969, could only read one touch at a time, and it was used for air traffic control until about 1995. In 1997, Apple released The Newton, which was the first commercially released touch screen device. http://mashable.com/2012/11/09/touchscreen-history/#.Q7TGL7Wdsqb -
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key pads
key pads made gaming on mobile devises much easier it also made a big impact on typing with text talk. -
Snake on the Nokia
Snake is the common name for a videogame concept where the player maneuvers a line which grows in length, with the line itself being a primary obstacle. -
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Colour Screens
Pre 2001, most if not all phone did not have colour to them. It was only until the Sony Ericssion T68i was released. -
N-Gage
N-Gage attempted to lure gamers away from the Game Boy Advance by including mobile phone functionality. This was unsuccessful, partly because the buttons, designed for a phone, were not well-suited for gaming and when used as a phone the original N-Gage was described as resembling a taco, which led to its mocking nickname "Taco phone" -
The Rise of Mobile Games
when the iPhone was released in 2007 it marked the moment when mobile gaming really took off, apple had already released technology which could play mobile like games.
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Centipede
Glu Mobile released a licensed cellular phone version of Centipede that includes the original game as well as updated gameplay, skins, and modes. In later 2008, Atari released the game via Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch. -
Angry birds
Angry Birds is a puzzle video game developed by Rovio Mobile. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the game was first released for iOS and Maemo devices in December 2009. -
Smartwatches
Smartwatches are basically phones for your wrist. Early models were usually made to be a companion to your existing phone. However more recent watches function more independently. The pros of these watches are that they are much more portable then phones since they're always on your wrist so there is less chance of losing them. However, due to there size the screens are relatively small meaning that the could be more difficult to read and type messages on. -
Quality Control
in recent years because of the popularity of mobile game smaller company have begun to capitalize on the market by releasing shady rip offs of existing games -
DOOM on iOS
in 2013 a version of the original doom was released on IOS -
The Flappy Bird Crisis
Flappy Bird is a 2013 mobile game developed by Vietnamese artist and programmer Dong Nguyen, under his game development company dotGEARS.[1] The game is a side-scroller where the player controls a bird, attempting to fly between rows of green pipes without hitting them. -
google glass
Google Glass is an optical head-mounted display designed in the shape of a pair of eyeglasses. It was developed by X (previously Google X) with the mission of producing a ubiquitous computer. -
Pokemon GO
Pokémon Go is a free-to-play, location-based augmented reality game developed by Niantic for iOS and Android devices. The game was the result of a collaboration between Niantic and Nintendo, by way of The Pokémon Company, and was initially released in selected countries in July 2016. -
Graphical Limitations
Dude to the relatively size of the graphics cards in phones, most of them cannot handle intensity of triple A titles and are suck with very limited graphics -
future technology
with googles attempt with google glass it is safe to assume the at some point in the near future there will be augmented reality contact lenses that with be placed directly on the eye and will attach to the the retina through a neural link. one of the problems with a technology is that although it could be well secured it could become hack and could cause some serious damage to someones retinas. although the benefits would be that augmented reality gaming would be much easier.
