Geek Speak Episode 4: Let The Mobile Games Begin!

Mobile games like PUBG & Fortnite a fuelling a gaming revolution. And there’s big money involved.

Do you remember playing the game “Snake” on the early Nokia mobile phones in the late 1990s? Or even Tetris for that matter, which was actually one of the first mobile games ever? These were some of the popular, early mobile games.

Nokia launched Snake on its phones in 1997 and it went on to become one of the most-played mobile games ever. But PC games and console games continued to dominate through the 1990s and the 2000s.

The first multi-player gaming experience too was on a Nokia mobile phone - the 6110. It had a two-player version of the Snake game, which two players could share using the phones infrared port. In 2003, in fact, Nokia even launched an exclusive gaming phone - the Nokia N-Gage.