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[Lijik]

The first Tap Tap Revenge got me really into that Nick Gallant song on it. I checked out the album because of it only to discover everything else was just mega mellow

The Nicky Boom port was one of the first ios platformers that had the bright idea to separate the left/right and up/down controls so it was a lot easier to handle than a regular fake dpad. it also helped that game was more about exploration than precision

I remember getting into a couple of gaffer made ios games from early on. One was a coin flip simulator where you had to time your taps just right with a 50s aesthetic. There was also a Beethoven endless runner that had this like monty python cutout look. It was really fun!

 

[Forkball]

It's hard to get nostalgic about these titles because many old ones are still constantly updated. Angry Birds 1 came out in 2009 and the most recent update was last November. The gap between Angry Birds 1 and it's last update is longer than the gap between Ocarina of Time and The Wind Waker. Angry Birds Rio came out in 2011 and had an update last week. These games are vastly different from what they were before.

 

[BocoDragon]

Can't see how unless mobile gaming was the only form of gaming you've done since you were young, which is now a real possibility for the future posters

All the old phone games I can think of were done better in the past or present on console or PC. Even the simplest games.

That's what I think of when the OP said he was nostalgic for Zenonia.

Like, I'd have to have been pretty poor and have no other entertainment options for me to have nostalgia for fucking Zenonia.

But I see it all the time at my school. Lots of Chinese kids whose parents would never allow them to get a console, so they actually do play horrid Korean RPGs on their cheap Android phone, and this is what they will remember as their gaming legacy...

 

[RionaaM]

Smartphone? No there clone each other enough that even the original IPs feel like sequels.

Old dumb phones though?

This was the shiiiiiiiit

Nokia S40 Splinter Cell? Yes, I played several of them on my old 3200, plus the Prince of Persia series, Assassin's Creed and many Gameloft games (Might and Magic, Asphalt and Nights series are the ones I can remember, but I'm sure there were more). I also had an incredibly barebones version of Worms that had local multiplayer, which I played a lot with a friend during high school. I also liked Space Impact a lot, playing it on my grandma's 1100.

A couple of years later I got a Nokia 5200, and spent quite some time with its games. Doom RPG was a favorite of mine, but it also had stuff like Midtown Madness 3 (which never came out on PC) and Crazy Taxi.

Yeah, I guess you could say I feel a little nostalgic for these games. Many of them were relatively simple and/or limited, but still very fun.


EDIT: S40v1 and v3 probably don't qualify as smartphone material, but whatever. I don't feel nostalgic for games I played on my old Nokia 5800 back in 2009, so I stand by my reply regarding 2005-2007 (3200) and 2007-2009 (5200).

 

[Elija2]

That's what I think of when the OP said he was nostalgic for Zenonia.

Like, I'd have to have been pretty poor and have no other entertainment options for me to have nostalgia for fucking Zenonia.

But I see it all the time at my school. Lots of Chinese kids whose parents would never allow them to get a console, so they actually do play horrid Korean RPGs on their cheap Android phone, and this is what they will remember as their gaming legacy...

Hey, people have nostalgia for shitty stuff all the time!

It's not that I didn't have any other entertainment options, it's just that my iPod Touch was a cool new gadget and I wanted to play any neat-looking game I could find on it. It might be hard to believe now but back then the Zenonia games were highly praised. I guess that's what happens when standards for mobile games are so low.

 

[The Giant]

Nope and never will.

 

[dadjumper]

Smartphone? No there clone each other enough that even the original IPs feel like sequels.

Old dumb phones though?

This was the shiiiiiiiit

Hell yeah!
Sam Derboo from Hardcore Gaming 101 has been doing some cool tweets about Korean/Japanese mobile games from the mid 2000s that I find super interesting. That market was huge over there when garakei ruled asia, I kinda wish that was still a thing.

 

[dampflokfreund]

Nostalgic for smartphone games? No. Nostalgic for Java mobile games? Yes! I remember playing many games on my Nokia 3410 and later on my first mobile phone with color display.

 

[TheRealJakoozie]

Sure. I'm nostalgic about the first plants vs zombies on iPad. That game blew my mind when it came out, so addicting! And a perfect fit for a large touch screen. A lot of what makes me nostalgic is the atrocity of aa pay wall simulator the sequel turned out to be. It's still an open wound, which makes me even more nostalgic about the first game.

 

[Ants]

back in my day we had Song Summoners and that was as good as it was ever likely to get

 

[Agent_J]

Smartphone? No there clone each other enough that even the original IPs feel like sequels.

Old dumb phones though?

This was the shiiiiiiiit

Yeah those Gameloft games were great. I had a Splinter Cell and XIII. Very charming graphics and arcadey gameplay.

 

[PantsuJo]

Nostalgic for mobile? No. Maybe for some old java games on my moto Razor.. But i haven't great memories of recent smartphone games.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I played snake and so forth years ago, but sooner or later I had a Cricket phone and got the Resident Evil games on there. It was awful. I don't think I ever want to go back. I have quite a few titles on iOS, but beyond a handful I own elsewhere I don't necessarily care. There are a few neat games, but nothing I'm addicted to or would consider Game of All Time worthy.

I remember quite a few like Batman's boomerang toss which was just silly and it never paid off.

It reminded me of not being wealthy enough to buy new games or playing my own console. I played them when I was away from home. It was a testament to who I am now with my smart phone. I never really saw it as a platform before iOS, but I saw the potential for games to come out with technology. RE was new and it was interesting at the time because I didn't know what a watered down or smaller RE would feel like.

Edit: I do feel like playing Mass Effect and Dead Space on iOS. DOOM too, but I'm so use to their console ports. ME and DS are kinda unique if you ask me. DOOM RPG is neat, but I didn't get very far. If I'm going to play Myst, it might as well be on PC. I'm not quite sure, but there's a few iOS games I do want on my phone. I just don't think beyond my iOS in terms of wanting to go back and replay a game.

I own KOTOR and a lot of other great games, but I'd say I've had a longer time to go back with them on PC. On iOS it might just have to be later on in the future. I didn't get Deus Ex running on iOS before, but then again that's not that old.

Japanese games might be different though, but I haven't necessarily had an inside look into their selection. They might be more familiar concepts than western apps. The top grossing iOS games is just what you'd expect, but I don't get nostalgic about any of it. 2007 or so is almost nastolgic for some phone games.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Looks like about a two thirds of people in here didn't even read the OP's first sentence.

Knee jerk hatred toward the word mobile is at an all time high.

my god, get yourself together. He asked if people are already nostalgic for Smartphone games and nobody is. No suprise here, its been 7 years since these devices are around, thats like asking if people are nostalgic for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

 

[daTRUballin]

my god, get yourself together. He asked if people are already nostalgic for Smartphone games and nobody is. No suprise here, its been 7 years since these devices are around, thats like asking if people are nostalgic for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Well, one could say they're nostalgic for the early days of 7th gen. I've seen plenty of people say it here on GAF.

 

[autoduelist]

I'm nostalgic for the time before mobile first became a race to $1 games, then free, then birthed an industry which perfected separating addicted whales from their wallets and eventually unleashed a plague of microtransactions in other gaming mediums.

 

[oti]

Not at all.

 

[Rich!]

Just snake. Nothing else.

 

[Real Hero]

yup just Snake.

 

[BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO]

Games have to stick with you(or at least with me) in order to be nostalgic for them. Every smartphone game I have played(that isn't a port e.g. Dragon Quest 8) is disposable trash. Even the good ones like Monument Valley and Super Hexagon.

no

Nope

Nah.

.

 

[pupcoffee]

I'm more nostalgic for the mashy buttons than the actual games.

 

[Iacobellis]

A bit. I used to keep a decently sized collection of games on my iPhone 4, but rarely touch the ones on my iPhone 6 nowadays. I think playing the original Touchgrind on an iPod Touch 2G blew my mind.

 

[T.O.P]

Smartphone? No there clone each other enough that even the original IPs feel like sequels.

Old dumb phones though?

This was the shiiiiiiiit

This and the rainbow 6 games were soooo damn good

 

[Mandelbo]

I got a little nostalgia for this shitty Worms clone called Moles that you had a rocket and a shotgun and thats all you had. It was on my Motorola flip phone.

Holy shit I remember playing this. I was really into Worms World Party at the time too, so I guess I might have found it kind of neat?

 

[RoadHazard]

Eh, no. Snake on my old 3210, sure. But not smartphone games. You need to have grown up with them (i.e. be really young) to feel that way, I think. And then I guess you'd also be nostalgic about PS3 games, which is weird to me.

 

[Jack Videogames]

Yo check out my Siemens S60 it's a bad boy with 2mb internal memory, it holds like 5 games! Watch out, I can play the Final Fantasy VII overworld theme with the polyphonic ringtune creator.

 

[RoadHazard]

Yo check out my Siemens S60 it's a bad boy with 2mb internal memory, it holds like 5 games! Watch out, I can play the Final Fantasy VII overworld theme with the polyphonic ringtune creator.

SMARTPHONE games.

 

[Bold One]

NO

 

[Jack Videogames]

SMARTPHONE games.

That phone was smarter than any other phone I've owned yo. For 50€ you had a brick that you could play games in, and no microtransactions or freemium shovelware. Just honest-to-good Java and Symbian goodness.

Also, I was not directly answering the OP, but continuing the line of discussion set by other posts in this thread.

 

[blackjaw]

Owned a mobile phone since 2000

Hell no

 

[Fasty]

When I got my first decent smartphone I played this game (Hex Defence) to death, then promptly forgot about it.

Years later I looked through my play store purchase list and saw it there, triggering a tiny wave of nostalgia. So I reinstalled it and it was still great. So yeah

 

[stilgar]

Smartphone? No there clone each other enough that even the original IPs feel like sequels.

Old dumb phones though?

This was the shiiiiiiiit

Oh shiiiit

This was a legit fun game

 

[Bert]

I am for Snake and that weird bean game on Nokias. Still better than Candy Crush.

 

[poodaddy]

no

And we're done here.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

I've only played a few games on mobile, and most were available on Facebook anyway.

 

[woopWOOP]

Ask me again in another 10 years and I'll probably be nostalgic for stuff like Brave Frontier and freakin' Lineplay of all things. Right now though, not really.

However pre-smartphone there was Reset Generation for N-Gage. Presentation was nice and the 2 to 4 player multiplayer aspect was actually pretty fun. My old phone was way too shitty to run things like that, but it was possible to also play it in a web browser (which I did). Last time I checked it seems they pulled the plug a long time ago and there isn't really a way to play that game anymore, which is too bad.

 

[Silent Chief]

Is this an N-Gage thread?

 

[Acosta]

I have no sentimental attaching to any mobile game (yet) so no.

 

[lazygecko]

I liked how mobile games filled the void left by the traditional industry once it abandoned the idea of arcade games meant to be played in short bursts. It was an ideal format for phones. Once the market gravitated towards freemium design practices, it was all downhill unfortunately.

 

[Alex Connolly]

I did have good fun with Chop Sushi, which sadly was pulled from iTunes when THQ went under.

It was a great spin on the Match Three concept.

 

[heringer]

Actually, yes!

I really miss Swordigo... such a great little game.

 

[More_Badass]

Well this thread has been a fun read!

I'd say, no, no nostalgia yet. Mobile games have advanced at such an insane rate since their inception and so many quality releases come out each month, that there's nothing to be nostalgic about yet

 

[Mihos]

No... in fact I still actively hate them

 

[Rolodzeo]

Nope.

 

[petran79]

there was an old Java mini golf game on some older model which I forgot. Nice way to spent time.

Also Tetris for Symbian.

 

[Trickster]

The only smartphone games I've ever tried that were fun, were super super simple games, to the point that I can't honestly remember their names or, for the most what they were even about. You know, the kind of game to play for a week a few minutes at a time, and then just stop playing because they're gimmick is done or you completed what little there was.

The rest of the mobile games I've seen or tried were some fucking horrid garbage, either because they're just straight up bad, or because they're some venomous f2p microtranstations hell.

So to answer OP's question. No.

 

[TaterTots]

Nah. I've tried several mobile games and I can't find one I like. Maybe one day I will and I'll feel nostalgic.

 

[Evilisk]

Technically, yes. I get nostalgic for Snake and Free Space if those count.

Smartphone era stuff though? Nope. If anything, that era just makes me nostalgic for Flash games (Angry Birds in particular).

 

[JimmyJones]

only one....

It's on android now
No if not counting ports

Oh shit I forgot all about this!

 

[p0rl]

I'm not nostalgic for any particular game, but I do reminisce about the experience of getting my first iPod touch. It was a total revelation. A lot of people were scoffing at touch controls at the time (it was 2009 and mobile gaming was "a passing fad") but I knew right there that it was the future. Witnessing gaming history being written like that was pretty incredible.