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It forced a generation of mobile gamers to master the art of the "corner camp" and the "ammo conservation dance." Look at screenshots of Serious Sam 2 Mobile today. At first glance, it looks primitive. The sprites are chunky, the explosions are 4-frame animations, and the UI takes up 20% of the screen.
By Alex "RetroTech" Mahan
In the hallowed halls of mobile gaming history, the years 2005 to 2010 represent a bizarre, beautiful, and often frustrating era. Before the iPhone unified app stores and touchscreens, there was Java ME (J2ME). It was a fragmented ecosystem of flip phones, candy-bar Nokia bricks, and Sony Ericsson feature phones. Among the sea of puzzle games and stripped-down ports, one title stood as a technical miracle and a testament to portable action: . serious sam 2 mobile
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