The N-Gage is a PDA that combined features of a cell phone and a

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developed and designed by

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, released on October 7, 2003. The following lists contains all of the known games released for the N-Gage, as well as unreleased games. Originally announced on November 4, 2002, the N-Gage competed against its rival, the

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, by integrating mobile phone functionalities but it was unsuccessful due to the button layout that was primarily designed for a phone not being suitable for gaming and its resemblance to a

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when used for

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s, leading to the origin of its mocking "Taco phone" nickname. On May 26, 2004, Nokia introduced the

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as a redesign that fixed widely criticized issues and design problems of the original model, however, it was unable to make an impact. Both models were commercial failures, approximately selling only 3 million units combined and the platform was discontinued on November 26, 2005. Only 57 of the games developed for the system received a North American retail release, with two retail releases being exclusive for

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territories. However, a few titles only saw release through either

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or bundles that came inside a MMC movie card. In addition, one more game came with the system on CD-ROM that was later made available for Symbian S60v2 cell phones.

Games

There are officially released N-Gage games on this list.

Cancelled games

A number of games were either announced or already in development before ultimately being cancelled.

Notes

References

External links

List of N-Gage games
at MobyGames {{Video game lists by platform * N-Gage

Games

Cancelled games

See also

Notes

References

External links