Select N-Gage games $5 @ ebgames.com

[poopnes]

Pathway to Glory, Pocket Kingdon, FIFA 2005, Call of Duty, SSX Out of Bounds and Colin McRae Rally 2005 are all only $5 each NEW at ebgames.com.

<a href="http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/categories/products/deptpage.asp?web_dept=n%2Dgage&order=list_price&intpageno=1&ordersort=asc&nooftens=1">
eb's N-Gage listing</a>

Picked up a Poket Kingdom shipped for $6.22. Couldn't pass that one up. Also hear that Pathway to Glory and Colin McRae are also really good. (Don't forget to drop in a used .99 PSX game and use CAG15 and SAVER).

[thegreatescape]

Would anyone be willing to buy Pathway to glory and Pocket Kingdom for me and ship them? EBgames.com have the stupidest international shipping policy ever (no way in hell im paying $29 US for 2 n-gage games to be shipped).
Ive got paypal and a had a selling thread in the b&s forum which is still valid if you want a trade of some sort.. Alternatively i can try tracking down any PAL (non nge) games (coz i enjoy the hunt) you might be after.

yes i really do want ptg and pk for $4.99 each that bad . :-P

[Cmosfm]

Well, I have bought every 5.00 NGage game since theyve been doing this.

Now, I can't, I'm too broke to do it. I tethered on the "payment" page for about 10 minutes...I just can't do it. Not now

[poopnes]

Well, I have bought every 5.00 NGage game since theyve been doing this.

Now, I can't, I'm too broke to do it. I tethered on the "payment" page for about 10 minutes...I just can't do it. Not now

Well you know I passed on the $20 Paper Mario 2 (though it appears to be back in stock now), but come on this is ONLY $5. ;) There was no way I was passing up a $5 Pocket Kingdom.

[Cmosfm]

Well, I have bought every 5.00 NGage game since theyve been doing this.

Now, I can't, I'm too broke to do it. I tethered on the "payment" page for about 10 minutes...I just can't do it. Not now

Well you know I passed on the $20 Paper Mario 2 (though it appears to be back in stock now), but come on this is ONLY $5. ;) There was no way I was passing up a $5 Pocket Kingdom.

Thing is, I can't JUST order one, If I place an order I HAVE to order all 6 of them.

Besides, I don't even have an N-Gage. :/

[poopnes]

Well, I have bought every 5.00 NGage game since theyve been doing this.

Now, I can't, I'm too broke to do it. I tethered on the "payment" page for about 10 minutes...I just can't do it. Not now

Well you know I passed on the $20 Paper Mario 2 (though it appears to be back in stock now), but come on this is ONLY $5. ;) There was no way I was passing up a $5 Pocket Kingdom.

Thing is, I can't JUST order one, If I place an order I HAVE to order all 6 of them.

Besides, I don't even have an N-Gage. :/

Yea its probably a lot easy to resist if you can't even play it. I was going to buy all 6, but I knew I couldn't. But I could talk myself into buying one.

[segagamer4life]

also, the games are the same price at the EB stores as well in case you wanna save a lil on shipping.

[Bluteg]

I bought Ashen, Operation Shadow, Tiger Woods 2004, Pocket Bomberman and Spiderman 2 for $1.99 each new from ebgames.com a few months ago. I still don't have an Ngage but after this sale I will have a nice collection started for it.

[classicb]

wow that is a great deal. I already have all those games but I can tell you that 5 of those 6 are some of the best N-Gage games out. Call of Duty is the only dud on the list and even it is probably worth $5.

I still picked up Pocket Kindom, Colin Mcrae, and Pathway to Glory for trading. Those are probably 3 of my favorite N-Gage games. Unfortunetly I got the display copies but their all complete and I got the price tags off without leaving any sticky stuff.

Hey Greatescape any chance you could hunt down a Sega Rally for a trade.

[Jagasian]

For $5 more you can buy something that actually makes the N-Gage worth owning:
http://vampent.com/vboyscreen.htm

[classicb]

For $5 more you can buy something that actually makes the N-Gage worth owning:
http://vampent.com/vboyscreen.htm

yeah I've got a 512mb MMC loaded with every emulator available for the N-Gage along with 4 episodes of Family Guy and a bunch of music. I still like collecting the actual game cards though. Some people will find Pocket Kingdom portable gaming crack and for only $5 you should give it a try.

[Jagasian]

For $5 more you can buy something that actually makes the N-Gage worth owning:
http://vampent.com/vboyscreen.htm

yeah I've got a 512mb MMC loaded with every emulator available for the N-Gage along with 4 episodes of Family Guy and a bunch of music. I still like collecting the actual game cards though. Some people will find Pocket Kingdom portable gaming crack and for only $5 you should give it a try.

How fun is it to play Pocket Kingdom without going online? I don't want to pay any online fees, so I would only pick it up if it was a good single player game. Is it? I am looking forward to Rifts. I used to play the pen and paper version of Rifts as a kid. Is it possible to copy an N-Gage card to an MMC card? I don't want to pirate any games, but I also don't want to have to carry around multiple game cards. One big MMC card with all of my favorite games on it is far nicer, considering I always carrying my N-gage with me.

[Nez]

Got Colin and Pocket Kingdom. Heard they were the good titles so why not? I don't know what I'm going to do about the system though. I dont feel like getting a phone bill.

[classicb]

you can play Pocket Kingdoms online (and any other n-gage game for that matter) with a bluetooth connection to your computer and access the arena that way. I've seen instructions on how to do it on several N-Gage sites. One player is good (its only $5) but online is better I like beating actual people. As far as ripping games I don't think its something us normal people can do. There are plenty of other ways ;) to get the files onto one MMC. I actually own the entire current US N-Gage collection so I don't feel too bad about downloading the games to put on one MMC card. I want the N-Gage to hang around so I like to support them as much as possible. I think their E3 Smartphone anoucement came from seeing what the bootleggers were doing.

you might find some interesting stuff here
http://www.nokiagalaxy.com/

[poopnes]

Got Colin and Pocket Kingdom. Heard they were the good titles so why not? I don't know what I'm going to do about the system though. I dont feel like getting a phone bill.

You don't need phone service to play the games on or offline. The N-Gage comes with a "dummy" sim card that lets you play the games offline. If you have bluetooth on your computer you can use your computer's net access for the Arena (online) portions of the games.

In case anybody is interested in how this works I'd be happy to explain it. Its actually quite simple and works well.

...classicb beat me too it. =) should have typed faster.

[Jagasian]

Portable game makers need to get smart. A portable isn't very portable if you have to lug around multiple game cards or discs. Nintendo really shoud have made the Gameboy Micro contain an internal flash chip, so that games could be purchased via a kiosk at a local game retailer and written to the internal flash memory via a proprietary connector.

They would save money on manufacturing carts.
It would make the device more portable.
It would also make it easier for gamers to find and buy the games they want.

The fact that the connector and kiosk are proprietary would prevent easy piracy... that is it wouldn't be any harder to pirate GBA games than currently with various flash cart kits.

[classicb]

well you must be a big fan of N-Gages E3 anouncment of being able to buy and download N-Gage games from you phone or computer. Although from what I understand this feature will only be available on the next gen Nokia Smartphones and not the current N-Gage. I'm guessing the next gen N-Gage will support this though. Its a good idea for Nokia since they can't seem to hang onto retail space.

[sharp]

well you must be a big fan of N-Gages E3 anouncment of being able to buy and download N-Gage games from you phone or computer. Although from what I understand this feature will only be available on the next gen Nokia Smartphones and not the current N-Gage. I'm guessing the next gen N-Gage will support this though. Its a good idea for Nokia since they can't seem to hang onto retail space.

I think one of the problems with the N-Gage is the number of sellingpoints. I remember last year the put out a big number of ads for Asphalt GP and some other games in a national newspaper in the Netherlands. The point was that the ads were useless as in my town there isn't a single store selling N-gage games and my town is the sixth city with almost 180.000 citizins. Something yes it's ok to advertise your product, but no use if you can't buy the product. So I think online distribution can be a good idea.

[Brisco]

I just ordered my games from EB. The N-Gage was a decent take on portable gaming, but there was pretty much nothing that could save it. There are better phones, and much better gaming systems. But I still love mine, and will continue using it as my phone for the forseeable future.

[Jagasian]

"Better gaming systems"? What does that mean? The two new portable gaming systems are not very practical as portable gaming systems. Tell me this, do you always carrying your DS or PSP around with you? I doubt it. They are just too big. The N-gage is very portable as it is also a mobile phone.

The SP and Micro are also very good at being portables. I think that they are the N-Gage's biggest competition. Not over priced, over hyped, and over sized so called "portables".

Nokia should have made the N-Gage's screen at least as large as the GBA's, and it should have come packed with built in GBA emulator. That would have given it a huge game library to start with. Native games would be able to take advantage of the full N-gage power, and would also therefore still be popular.

[Brisco]

Jagasian said:

"Better gaming systems"? What does that mean? The two new portable gaming systems are not very practical as portable gaming systems. Tell me this, do you always carrying your DS or PSP around with you?


By much better gaming systems I meant the Gameboy series, not the DS or PSP. The are better. Period. Better designed, better games, brilliantly marketed.

I do like my N-Gage, I use it everyday as my cell. Its just as a gaming system, it's very average. If the N-Gage had a screen as large as the Gameboys, the system would also be the size of the Gameboy. And would Nokia be better off by marketing that they can play emulated Gameboy games? Nokia needed to have games designed for their system, not steal its competitors. It sounds like your argument is that if Nokia made the N-Gage the size of the Gameboy, and could play its games, it would be as good as the Gameboy. Why not just get a Gameboy?

Unfortunatey for Nokia, they released the N-Gage around the time when cell phones were becoming able to play N-Gage type of games anyway, and therefore weren't truly able to "sell" this phone/gaming system to gamers or anyone else for that matter. I think if you asked most people who want extras(especially non-gamers) what type would you like included with your phone, most of them would answer with textchat and tv shows. Hell my friends cell gets cable!? WTF?!?

[geelw]

now that really... sucks, LOL- here i am with only a gamestop near me and $36 worth of credit from a trade last week! grrrr. they haven't lowered their n-gage prices, and when i dropped by yesterday with news of the eb deal, one of the managers there flipped out because that's a better deal then they get on the games LOL

well, i'm supposed to ge meet my brother tomorrow for a bit of holiday stuff, so i'll see if there's an eb near him. otherwise, anyone willing to pick up 5 of those titles and ship 'em to me for the gamestop credit? feel free to PM me, otherwise, if i can con...er, persuade my bro to do some shoppng in his free time, i'll just unhijack this topic LOL

g.

[Jagasian]

Making your game system compatible with another is not stealing. Did VCRs steal by being compatible with eachother? Did Compaq steal IBM's software by making an IBM-compatible PC? What about the fact that an Ipod can play MP3s? Is Apple stealing music? Should we force people to carry around large CD players and stacks of CDs? Users love the word compatible, and hate it when their various technologies are not compatible with eachother. In the perfect world, Playstation 2 games would be compatible with the Xbox, etc.

With regards to why buy an N-gage, if all it was advertised as was a GBA compatible mobile phone? One reason, actually. The same reason you would buy a mobile phone that has a built in MP3 player. Size, size, size!

(GBA + Ipod + phone) greater-in-size-than n-gage

I can carrying around a wallet, keys, and mobile phone... but it is hard to carry around a wallet, keys, mobile phone, in addition to a GBA and Ipod. Nokia got part of that equation right. They made the N-gage MP3 compatible. The very same reason that an MP3 compatible phone is very desirable, is the same reason why a GBA compatible phone would be very desirable.

[Brisco]

Users love the word compatible, and hate it when their various technologies are not compatible with eachother. In the perfect world, Playstation 2 games would be compatible with the Xbox, etc.

In a perfect world, gas would be less than a dollar also, but it's not. PS2 games will never be playable on any other system, Betamax is not playble on VHS players, and Mac & Windows users will never agree on anything.


With regards to why buy an N-gage, if all it was advertised as was a GBA compatible mobile phone? One reason, actually. The same reason you would buy a mobile phone that has a built in MP3 player.

True, the N-Gage has MP3 & radio tuner capabilities, but the system that they currently sell, the QD, does not. They took out those features to make it cheaper. Not without having to download some hack to the phone, and the average Joe public cellphone user doesn't know how to do that. And once again, someone beat them to the market. the Ipod was really gaining steam before the N-Gage hit the market, and those who could afford the Ipod already had a cell, and the combined size of an Ipod and today's cell is really not that larger than either of the N-Gages.

You and I are arguing the same point. If the system had better games, better marketing, and a bigger screen, it might have caught on. But it didn't. The system unfortunately never was, or has it ever been a hit. No one seemed to care about it. Just like the Jaguar, 3DO, Neo Geo, Lynx, Game Gear, anything by NEC, Virtual Boy, Saturn etc. etc. etc. Not everything that we like is a popular item. I'm just being honest about it. If you ask a hundred people on the street if they would prefer an N-Gage QD, a Sidekick or a Blackberry, how many people do you think would really say an N-Gage QD?

Now lets stop picking fights for no reason and get back to the posts original topic, cheap games for a system/phone/MP3 player/whatever again. :D

[Mattiekrome]

Thx for the info, I will make my way to the EB a couple towns over tomorrow to see what I can get my hands on (surely not any good NES games)...

[rayearthknight]

I used to own an original Ngage...(Yes, I bought it when it first came out) and I used it primarily for it's MP3, radio and web browsing capabilities...I'm more for communication than games...games are great though and when I bought a few games...but mostly I played games with the GB emulator, downloaded to a memory card...

then...my ngage's power port got damaged (the pin broke off) and no one could repair the phone without charging me full price for it so...I ditched it....and then got a QD. It left a lot to be desired...sure, better, brighter screen, easier game access...less software glitches but it was missing the multi-media angle.

I sold it on ebay and got a palmOne

HOWEVER, a few months later, I started to feel nostalgic and placed my palmone on ebay, so I could buy an Ngage original. I was then asked to do a trade with someone: an orignal Ngage for my palm.

The phone came with:
Ngage
bluetooth headphones
bluetooth adapter
A 512 MB card
And a CD with all of the currently released Ngage games.

I'm thinking...wow...that's about the price for a PalmOne Treo 600--complete with a 256 MB card.

So...I did the trade....

And I'll bet you know what happened....

Yep...I got scammed and lost my palm to someone, supposedly in TX. Never got my ngage either....and the guy called me gullible.

So..now I have scrimped and got an ipaq--and like the original ngage, it's got the features I want (plus wi-fi)...now, if I could only figure out how to install an emulator for it.