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MOSH serve up 800 free games - with ads

3 replies · 3,467 views · Started 30 April 2008

Nokia-owned file-sharing site MOSH has just announced that it's releasing 'over 800' games for free at sg.mosh.nokia.mobi - 'free' in this case meaning 'sponsored', which in turn means that each of the (Java) games have one or more adverts inserted into their startup and closedown routines. Some ad examples below. The games themselves are in some cases quite old and originate from publisher Greystripe.

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Well, it's not exactly enhancing the games, but if this business model helps the development ecosystem then it's a good idea.

Well, I had to skip 3 ads to start the game the first time, so far I don't like this. Although I do wonder how they made it, I doubt they redid the whole .jar