Nokia was a big attempt at making a “gaming phone”. Why bother with a Game Boy Advance when your phone can do that all for you!

SonicN is a good example as to why, as this is a port of Sonic Advance. Sonic Advance is a good game, and you can render it almost unplayable by using the fullscreen mode in this, which zooms into a small square that the game wasn’t designed for. Luckily, this is optional and you can run the game in a bordered mode which adds rather ugly borders to the top and bottom. This makes what you are playing on extremely tiny and the resolution much smaller.

Take the awkward buttons on the original phone, plus having to open it up to change card and then have the big Sonic game be a toned down port of a Game Boy Advance game (when the GBA already had a sequel to it), and it’s clear as to why it failed.