“I looked at all these game preservationist organisations and nobody was saying anything”.
Before iPhone and Android devices became the primary platforms for mobile gaming, there was already a healthy community of gamers in Japan experiencing the joy of playing video games on their phone, thanks to the emergence of Japanese feature phones.
These proto-smartphones let users connect to the internet to access video games and other utilities from a bunch of different mobile carriers, with the three most popular services being NTT DoCoMo’s i-Mode, Softbank’s Yahoo! Keitai, and Au’s EZ Web. Various well-known developers/publishers like Capcom, Square Enix, Sega, and Konami have all released games for these services in the past (including some based on their most popular franchises). However, they have historically fallen through the cracks when it comes to preservation, due to the challenge of actually accessing these games and the general lack of awareness surrounding their existence.
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“I looked at all these game preservationist organisations and nobody was saying anything”.
Before iPhone and Android devices became the primary platforms for mobile gaming, there was already a healthy community of gamers in Japan experiencing the joy of playing video games on their phone, thanks to the emergence of Japanese feature phones.
These proto-smartphones let users connect to the internet to access video games and other utilities from a bunch of different mobile carriers, with the three most popular services being NTT DoCoMo’s i-Mode, Softbank’s Yahoo! Keitai, and Au’s EZ Web. Various well-known developers/publishers like Capcom, Square Enix, Sega, and Konami have all released games for these services in the past (including some based on their most popular franchises). However, they have historically fallen through the cracks when it comes to preservation, due to the challenge of actually accessing these games and the general lack of awareness surrounding their existence.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
