October 22, 2002

12:15 PM

Nokia Gameis back with a vengence (certainly here in the UK anyway), and claiming to be "an experience you will never forget". Will it be? Will it surpass the last two Nokia Games, which became clouded in game-playing techies' catty derision of the technology used? Will the huge band of followers at the cunningly titled fan site Nokia-Game return again? And, more pressingly, will they still create stunningly TV, radio and newspaper adverts, so we can all boast again that we're part of it?
posted by wibbler (12 comments total)

What the heck is it?
posted by McBain at 12:30 PM on October 22, 2002

Those are the kind of stuff we should have here in the US or more specifically Hawaii. ;) Sometimes you think the US is far ahead in technology but visit Europe or Japan and see the thousands of phones that can do everything for you.
posted by hawaiitron at 12:30 PM on October 22, 2002

This gives more info.
posted by vbfg at 12:44 PM on October 22, 2002

McBain: Viral Marketing.
posted by maniactown at 12:45 PM on October 22, 2002

What the heck is it?

For starters, it's yet another reason not to buy a cellphone.
posted by Polo Mr. Polo at 12:52 PM on October 22, 2002

I'm interested to hear from someone who took part in last year's game. What kind of "challenges" does the game involve? The website seemed a little vague.
posted by Stuart_R at 1:07 PM on October 22, 2002

I'm gathering that this contest doesn't extend to America, so us unfortunate Yanks can't play?

Not like we could even use the phone that's the prize anyway, probably.
posted by Hamusutaa at 1:27 PM on October 22, 2002

I nearly strangled my prankster friends who were quite into it and kept sending me SMS' and emails from the game. I don't need my phone beeping every two minutes - and I started filtering their mails. way to go to be annoying.
posted by dabitch at 1:32 PM on October 22, 2002

Stuart, the game usually involve using pictures/shockwave/emails/text messages/newspaper adverts/tv adverts to solve problems - in the last two games, it was ultimately to find people. It's involving every media, and is actually quite involving. This one seems a little different though...
posted by wibbler at 1:33 PM on October 22, 2002

Not like we could even use the phone that's the prize anyway, probably.

Actually, the prize is the Nokia 3650 which will be available in the US in early 2003. It's a very cool camera/pda/media player and, uh, phone . . .
posted by donovan at 3:20 PM on October 22, 2002

My friend wrote an article dubbed "irritainment" when I was busy playing the first nokiagame.

Says it all really although I did just signup for this one. Damncrazyfool me
posted by ajbattrick at 3:44 PM on October 22, 2002

i was soo pysched to get in on this Nokia Game and then i find out it's not for the US. that sucks soo much :-(

We Yanks ought to complain like hell!
posted by Like the Reef at 7:19 PM on October 22, 2002