# That was quick (N-Gage)
**URL:** https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996
**Category:** RPGC Main Forum
**Created:** [November 12, 2003, 9:53am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996 "2003-11-12T09:53:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@BlueMageOne](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BlueMageOne)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 9:53am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/1 "2003-11-12T09:53:01Z")
[http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/12/technology/nokia\_ngage.reut/index.htm](http://money.cnn.com/2003/11/12/technology/nokia_ngage.reut/index.htm)
Christ it was just released to, you’d think they would put some kind of system on their games to stop this from happening so damn fast. With that, the taco shape, and having to remove the battery to change games, its like they wanted it to fail.
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### Author:  [@BahamutXero](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BahamutXero)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 9:58am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/2 "2003-11-12T09:58:10Z")
I think the hackers did it so quick to send a message: Don’t buy this piece of junk :hahaha; .
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### Author:  [@Jakanden](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Jakanden)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 10:04am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/3 "2003-11-12T10:04:27Z")
> Originally posted by BahamutXero
> I think the hackers did it so quick to send a message: Don’t buy this piece of junk :hahaha; .
I Second heh
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### Author:  [@Trillian](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Trillian)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/4 "2003-11-12T10:13:42Z")
Actually, I think the system isn’t really all that bad…I mean, what do you expect from a first-generation cell phone/game console/digital player/FM radio? 😜
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### Author:  [@BlueMageOne](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BlueMageOne)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 10:28am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/5 "2003-11-12T10:28:23Z")
My question is: What were they thinking with the design? So far we have seen websites that are up for the sole purpose of making fun of the way you talk into it. Its inconvinient to remove the batteries in order to change the game, and the buttons on the divice are ocwardly placed. These are simple design flaws that could have been taken care of in product testing.
I was expecting something that at least had a halfway decient design.
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### Author:  [@The\_984](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/The_984)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/6 "2003-11-12T10:29:07Z")
I think the PS2’s security mechanisms were cracked the day it was launched. I also know Mr. Saturn had a Super Monkey Ball ISO and all that jazz like a day after it came out.
As it stands, the Dreamcast still seems to have the best protection of “next generation” consoles. It took them, what, three years until they could finally play bootleg games?
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### Author:  [@Heaven\_s\_Soldier](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Heaven_s_Soldier)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/7 "2003-11-12T11:16:14Z")
 Actually when you think about the hackers were probably slower then they could have been. Considering, they probably had a lot more important hacker stuff to do before coming to this piece of inadequate technology.
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### Author:  [@Amerycinsycho](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Amerycinsycho)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 11:30am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/8 "2003-11-12T11:30:40Z")
Really Mage, why do you hate the N-Gage? It never did anything to you.
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### Author:  [@BlueMageOne](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/BlueMageOne)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/9 "2003-11-12T11:49:25Z")
I don’t “hate it” i mean its just like that uncle in your family that won’t get a job, and just sits around and drinks Papst blue ribbon all day
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### Author:  [@Ness\_the\_Earth\_Bound](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Ness_the_Earth_Bound)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/10 "2003-11-12T13:53:37Z")
> I don’t “hate it” i mean its just like that uncle in your family that won’t get a job, and just sits around and drinks Papst blue ribbon all day
Yeah, I got me one of those.🆒
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### Author:  [@Nulani](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Nulani)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/11 "2003-11-12T14:58:36Z")
They thought it would sell simply because it wasn’t a Nintendo Gameboy. That’s probably the only reason why they have sold any all. Beyond those who bought it to test it.
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### Author:  [@Kagato\_Toujou](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Kagato_Toujou)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/12 "2003-11-12T15:02:56Z")
_laughs at the cell-phone companys_
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### Author:  [@Silhouette](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Silhouette)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/13 "2003-11-12T15:13:37Z")
“Nokia (NOK: Research, Estimates) has high hopes for N-Gage, aiming to sell between six and nine million units before the end of 2004 as it challenges market leader Nintendo’s Gameboy Advance.”
I’m not sure “challenge” is an appropriate word.
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### Author:  [@Sinistral](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Sinistral)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/14 "2003-11-12T15:15:03Z")
I agree with Sil. The people at nokia are smoking good shit.
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### Author:  [@Skankin\_Garbage](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Skankin_Garbage)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/15 "2003-11-12T15:38:32Z")
Actually 984, the newer Dreamcasts (That didn’t require boot discs) have absolutely no copy protection at all 😛
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### Author:  [@The\_984](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/The_984)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/16 "2003-11-12T15:53:47Z")
That may be true, but it still took 3 years to crack the DC to allow people to play bootleg games, SG.
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### Author:  [@kaseli](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/kaseli)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/17 "2003-11-12T17:14:05Z")
The GamePark32 suffered from just as stupid a design and just as bad games, but as soon as the hackers cracked the code and made it possible to write games for the system, it made the massive import price worth it. Perhaps with the possibilty of homebrew games the NGage will be worth its massive price and overcome its shortcomings.
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### Author:  [@Silhouette](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/u/Silhouette)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgclassics.com/t/that-was-quick-n-gage/4996/18 "2003-11-12T17:18:35Z")
i dont think homebrew games are any incentive to buy some shittily made, weird handling, glorfied cell phone with a screen smaller than a postage stamp.