With the advent of the camera phone cell phones became more common. Unlike today's cell phone games, which usually have to be purchased, these games came pre-installed and could not be copied or removed. Snake) due to their limited graphical quality. These games were also usually animated with shaded squares (e.g. Older cell phone games were not as expansive or popular as games for consoles since the hardware for the early mobile phone was not suited for high-color screening or sounds beyond differently pitched beeps. With these technological advances mobile phone games were becoming increasingly sophisticated. With the introduction of the "candy bar" cell phone mobile phones' capabilities significantly improved. Towards the end of the 20th century mobile phones began to modernize. Mobile games are usually downloaded via the mobile operator's network, but in some cases are also loaded in the mobile handsets when purchased, via infrared connection, Bluetooth, or memory card. The games may be installed over the air, side loaded onto the handset with a cable, or may be embedded in the handheld devices by the OEM or by the mobile operator. However, there are non networked applications, that simply use the device platform to run the game software. The first two-player game for mobile phones was a variant of the Snake game for the Nokia 6110, using the infrared port. Examples include text message (SMS), multimedia message (MMS) or GPS location identification. For networked games, there are various technologies in common use. Mobile games are played using the technology present on the device itself. Snake and its variants has since become one of the most-played video games and is found on more than 350 million devices worldwide. Three years later Nokia launched the very successful Snake on selected models in 1997. The first game on a mobile phone was a Tetris game on the Hagenuk MT-2000 device from 1994.
This does not include games played on dedicated handheld video game systems such as Nintendo 3DS or PlayStation Vita.
A mobile game is a video game played on a feature phone, smartphone, PDA, tablet computer, portable media player or calculator.
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