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Nokia in the early 2000s dominated the cell phone market with their nearly indestructible phones. In 2003 they decided to release the first fully gaming oriented cell phone. The N-Gage. In many ways it was ahead of its time and had many of the same features of PDAs and MP3 players of the time.

Launching in late October for $300 (not bad for a cell phone at the time) it tried its hand at competing with the GBA. Running on Symbian OS 6.1, many cell phone games would run natively on the unit.

64 games were developed with notable titles such as: Bomberman, Civilization, Crash Nitro Kart, Tomb Raider, Sonic N, Super Monkey Ball, and The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey. 25 other games were in development at one point but were canceled for various reasons.

The system received much criticism alleging defects in its physical design and layout, including its vertically oriented screen and requirement of removing the battery to change game cartridges.

The most well known criticism was "sidetalking" due to the placement of the speaker and microphone being on the side edge of the device, causing the user to appear as if they are speaking into a taco.

Despite Nokia giving the device a redesign that addressed the issues of the original it would be discontinued in 2005 after meeting only half of the projected sales goals.

The Divers 2000 CX-1 is a Japan-only Dreamcast/television hybrid system developed by Fuji TV alongside SEGA and CSK released in the year 2000. The system was only produced in a limited quantity of 200 units and came bundled with a DreamEye camera, a Dreamcast controller, a keyboard and a remote control.

A complete new in box system currently is sells between $15,000-19,000.

I had no idea this thing existed. Preserving video game history is so hard.

14″ CRT display with 4 controller ports below and button controls above.

Disc tray

In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a glitch may occur on the online menu whereby two of the astronaut Toads that float randomly in the background may accidentally spawn at the same time, causing them to appear fused together as seen in the footage.