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Welcome 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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N-Gage, The Failure That Refused to Die | Past Mortem [SSFF]

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Comments

Patrick Decker

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.

Richard Williams

Woooo, thanks for your hard work! Sounds fun! :D Hope you guys are looking after yourselves and staying safe!

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.

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!

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!

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

Count Duckula

TIL Americans pronouce it no-kia rather than nok-ia

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.

Blackraven

What makes Puzzle Bobble so terrible on this thing?