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Episode 152: Japanese Mobile Game Preservation

Video Game History Hour · March 18, 2026

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00:15:17 - 00:15:28

I know with the Bomberman game I played and one of the phones you supplied, Ellen, the screen on that phone rotates 90 degrees and you can play in portrait or landscape.

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... like, yeah, maybe it makes sense to go through them in that case. But that is, when you mentioned that this is kind of an interactive game-y thing that integrates sending mail to people, I do wanna talk about some of those unique features 'cause I think that's really interesting. I know Max, you mentioned the sort of integration I know with the Bomberman game I played and one of the phones you supplied, Ellen, the screen on that phone rotates 90 degrees and you can play in portrait or landscape. Oh, so it looked like it was like hinged on both sides? Is that, am I understanding that right? Yes, it opens. For folks who can't see what's happening, which is everyone listening, he has a phone that is opening the long way ...

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