NAMCO BANDAI brings 22 classic games to Asha Touch

Published by Boc Ly on July 5, 2012

Namco Bandai Games

The strength of gaming on Nokia’s new Asha Touch range of mobile phones was underlined today with the announcement of over 20 fantastic new titles from NAMCO BANDAI.

Launched just over a month ago, the Nokia Asha 305, Nokia Asha 306 and Nokia Asha 311 are a colourful range of affordable mobile phones designed for young, urban and aspirational people in emerging countries.

At their core is a great new touch screen experience that makes for fast mobile web browsing, easy access to social networks and, of course, for gaming.

In total, 22 games have arrived for Asha Touch devices from NAMCO BANDAI including these classic titles you probably last played on a dedicated machine:

PAC-MAN

Flight Control

SOULCALIBUR

ACE COMBAT Northern Wings

Final Fantasy

RIDGE RACER Drift

Brain Exercise with Dr Kawashima

James Kucera, head of mobile for NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc., said:

“Our partnership with Nokia perfectly illustrates the strengths of our brand’s experience and leadership in the mobile games industry and fits our mutual resolve to bring games to all mobile users worldwide”

The Nokia Asha 305, 306 and 311

Supporting emerging nations

Nokia’s Asha Touch devices are aimed at offering an affordable smartphone-like experience for young people with big dreams but small budgets.

For example, the new Nokia Browser, which compresses data by up to 85%, makes mobile web browsing faster and, crucially, cheaper.

These new titles from NAMCO BANDAI are priced between USD 0.99 and USD 2.99 – and they’re available on the Nokia Store as of today. Mobile gaming fans in more than 52 countries will be able to purchase them without the need for a credit card, via Nokia’s extensive direct billing agreements with over 145 operators.

Comments

http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

With these and the 40 free EA games, no one with an Asha Touch will ever get any work done.
- http://www.facebook.com/coolamit54 Cool Amit
  
  those 40 EA games are crappp
r1james

Pacman? extremely old games. Move to symbian belle.
- http://conversations.nokia.com/ Adam Fraser
  
  There’s big love for retro-games right now.
http://twitter.com/sameersayson Sameer Nayak

No will ever amaze what nokia will innovate in future .. at last it ended up with the Meego based N9 and Pureview, to which the World loved so much from nokia nokia’s innovations of the last 4-5 years. but unfortunately You left the MeeGo .. the last hope for us to be a greate nokia user … though You will success with WP8 … but You will never differentiate yourself with that. Please go back and introduce great n cute meego handsets along with WP8, otherwise ?????

but please never loose MeeGo for which Nokia is now loved..
please never loose it.. the world is saying …
I am praying at God please … May Nokia always be with MeeGo …
- r1james
  
  I love Nokia Symbian Belle Fp1 of my 808 PureView. I am still dont know why nokia keep the wp8 route, if microsoft decide to launch their own phones (like the do with tablet surface), nokia automatically is a dead company.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000030447325 Olga Dyachenko

Will these games be availible in Russia and Kazakhstan?
http://www.facebook.com/code565472 陳政文

Now if you can get some SD GUNDAM G Generation from Origin to AGE for Asha Touch……just kidding :-P
Lovrena

The Asha 311 is quite capable (1 GHz CPU + 128 MB RAM), so even the Java gaming experience can be very fluid . The only pity is that there’s no real document viewer or Skype (VoIP) client for Series 40. Without these it’s not that easy to fight directly with the low-end Android gadgets.

I think the Asha portfolio has very strong potential, but the aforementioned shortcomings should be addressed with some software update. A GPS receiver with pedestrian navigation would be also a great addition and totally unbeatable in that price range. Introducing a GPS back cover for the current lineup would be also feasible. ;) In few increments I hope to see nHD or WVGA screens in the Asha series.
- http://www.facebook.com/code565472 陳政文
  
  For a feature phone I think it still need: AF camera (5MP or 3.2MP are enough if want cheap, but Auto Focus is a must-have, or Nokia should make Full Focus can focus from 10cm to infinity), LED light for photo and torch like X2-00, build-in FM antenna like X2-00, two or more loud speaker like X2-00. Considering the screen size of current games on Asha Touch, 800×480 maybe a good size for improve, but it will make the device more expensive. And I think GPS receiver may not so much important if just use for finding street in a city that usually have phone signal.
  So basically it should be an improved X2-00 with full touch and penta-band and Auto Focus, and didn’t lack other features. I think it will indeed more expensive, but definitely not going to $1000, since Asha 311 is 96 euros and X2-00 is 85 euros and 3120 classic have a 2MP AF camera and its price is 150 euro, and how much money is spend on the camera in it in 2008?
lkraav

I think all the screenshot CDN links are broken