Play with the phone It is so natural in this era that the mobile gaming industry is the one that has grown the most in the last year.
Newzoo estimates that in 2020, there were 2.6 billion mobile gamers, of which 38% paid for their games, and Statista estimates that this item will leave a worldwide spill of $ 11.35 billion.
Today it is the standard, but in decades past the idea of video games on the phone It was innovative, and as an example we have this old note published in the newspaper El Economista on September 3, 1999:
“Game Boy on cell phone?” It is the head of the story and it is understandable that the newspaper chose to make the analogy with the Game Boy, because in 1999, the idea closest to play on a hands-on device they were portable consoles.
Also, the center of the note was the announcement that Nintendo and Konami would create a new company called Mobile21 that would focus on the development of techniques to play in Game Boy and in the cell phone.
Indeed, Mobile21 It emerged in October 1999 and its object was developments for the Game Boy Advance, a console that was released until 2001, among which the Mobile Adapter GB, a Game Boy Color compatible accessory that allowed pairing with the phone to share data on the Internet, such as high scores.
Mobile21 had a short life, ended in December 2002 and some games that made use of technology were Pokémon Crystal of Game Boy Color Y AirForce Delta Storm, Gradius Galaxies Y Jurassic Park III: Island Attack of Game Boy Advance.
An incorrect information of the note is that through Mobile21 the Game Boy Color would be put on sale (referred to as “Game Boy of Colors” in the text), when the truth is that this portable console reached the market in 1998; that is, one year before the Nintendo and Konami venture began operating.
But a fact that should be rescued is the appointment of Hiroshi Yamauchi, then president of Nintendo, who said that the days when people wanted complicated and expensive games were long gone, as now they were looking for simple titles at a lower cost, one of the realities of the current gaming scene.
As Newzoo points out, the growth of mobile game This is because, on the user side, the barrier to entry is lower and, on the developer side, it implies less complex development processes.
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