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NEW VIDEO! N-Gage, The Failure That Refused to Die | Past Mortem [SSFF]
🕑 Added 2021-05-31 16:04:20 +0000 UTCWelcome to 30+ minutes of Nokia madness. Y'all voted for it, and it's here. Let us know what you think! Feedback super welcomed.
This is the return of Past Mortem and the breakdown of how the Nokia N-Gage went wrong. WOW this was a doozy! It's been a long time since the last Past Mortem, so I feel like our training wheels spun off a bit. This took us a LONG time to make, with tons of research and testing and interviewing. But I think this story deserved it! I'm hoping that the next Past Mortem doesn't take so long. And I already have a couple follow-ups started. My goal is to have the next one done in July.... we'll see how that goes! And hopefully it will be the follow-up to the Kinect.
But gosh, where do we start with the N-Gage?? I think the weirdest behind-the-scenes thing that happened was that playing the N-Gage so much really aggravated Grace's TMJ. Turns out N-Gages were not designed with ergonomics in mind– who knew?!
Derek edited this video all by himself, which meant that our main editing computer was all tied up for putting the finished touches on... the N-Gage Punching Weight! Yup!! Another N-Gage video! Expect it to go live a bit later today. Sorry for the delay, but we've been all-hands on the Past Mortem for the last week or so. Holy crap, that means there's going to be ~45 minutes of N-Gage content in your timeline just in time for Taco Tuesday 🌮🎉
Grace
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Comments
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
it's incredibly laggy and slow. i think we go into more detail on it in the punching weight
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
your comment actually motivated us to change this section slightly for the final youtube version. I'm really happy with it now :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk7Pf12tUpA&t=1181s
Blackraven
What makes Puzzle Bobble so terrible on this thing?
Tiago Pereira dos Santos Silva
I agree but for a 16 year old going from Doom for GBA and from Rede Faction for N-Gage was something interesting. Duke Nuken Advance, Ecks vs Seve and Doom II games I only learned about years and years later thanks to youtube videos from the SFF and the minime. It would be cool to video some more ports for N-Gage, Splint Cell Floors Theory, Call of Duty, Pandemonium!, Alien Front, Virtua Cop and Sega Rally (Sega Rally for GBA is better).
Count Duckula
I genuinely figured it was just a regional pronouncing difference, like hun-day instead of hee-un-day for Hyundai :) Awesome video, I had an ngage back in the day but never saw an official cart.
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
I wasn’t so impressed with Red Faction. Ecks vs Sever, Duke 3d and Doom II on GBA stand toe-to-toe with it, I think. The real hotness was Ashen, which genuinely does stuff the GBA could only dream of!
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
Thanks!! I’m glad you liked it! We wrote a few fake raps, just a couple of ideas. But as we got closer to shooting we realized a fake-out would be funnier and better for the pace of the video. So no actual N-Gage rap was filmed.
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
Maaaaa, I tried my best to say “Nok-ia” in this video after people pointed it out in the Sonic ports video. But it’s a fraction of a syllable difference and I’m trying to get full sentences and paragraphs out. I was tryin’!!
Tiago Pereira dos Santos Silva
I remember having N-Gage, moving from Doom to GBA to Red Faction for N-Gage was a big leap. Pandemium for N-Gage is a very good port.
Count Duckula
TIL Americans pronouce it no-kia rather than nok-ia
Matti Vainionpää
Great vid! As a Finn, it was especially interesting to get a small history lesson on one of our largest companies with its ups and downs
JOSH
That's one trip to the past! Seeing that 5110 model again is just wow. That's one great video, Derek! Thank you very much!
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
Yes it is 🏴☠️⚓️
Tiago Pereira dos Santos Silva
I love N-Gage and I had N-Gage in the past!!
D. Tang
Is the music underneath the Piracy section from that old "You wouldn't steal a car" commercial? Regardless fantastic video! Love you guys, keep being excellent!
Bea
Great video!
Jose
The only thing I knew about the N-Gage before this video was "lol ngage bad haha taco" just cause its the butt of the joke with YouTubers who make gaming videos. This system has such a neat history, and I'm glad someone gave the N-Gage the time of day! Like nothing ever went right for Nokia, but it was exciting to hear about nonetheless. Amazing fucking job with this video! Hope this video inspires lost media hunters to look for the Ngage reveal footage cause that would be so great to watch. I want to feel that secondhand embarrassment so bad. Also Derek please drop that soundcloud link to your Ngage rap mixtape. The public needs it.
Richard Williams
Woooo, thanks for your hard work! Sounds fun! :D Hope you guys are looking after yourselves and staying safe!
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
That’s Metal Storm! A very special game for me https://youtu.be/mwNPdD5ZwFo
Not really related to the video, but what's the box to the left of the plush "This Is Fine" dog? Getting some MegaMan X with armor upgrades vibes from it.
