This Was Mobile Gaming in 2004

Let's play the ultimate mobile gaming setup from 2004!

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#Mobile #J2ME #Ericsson

[kFY]

Java ME was a really neat technology for its time. You could, in theory at least, run any app on any phone. In practice it was severely limited and the performance was often awful, but it was the first truly ubiquitous app platform way before Android and iOS.

[avamnepohui]

10:43 - the game runs smoothly for a reason. Note that some games started with a java splash screen and some with a loading bar like this one. So, this is not a java game, but mophun, a completely different platform. This is also the reason why the manufacturer made a gamepad for the phone, on which it would seem that java games work incredibly slowly and poorly. There were very few phones supporting mophun, and this is one of them.

[markmuir]

Let's pause for a moment to admire the idea of Java as the gaming platform for phones: take what is an already woefully underpowered CPU and layer on top a slow runtime that also gobbled up RAM. With no standardized hardware-accelerated graphics APIs. Only a committee could make such a decision...

[KalleKilponen]

3:45 I love how the mini-SIM form factor is now considered the "big old SIM card of yesteryear". Does anyone remember when SIM cards used to be the size of a credit card? (I mean I guess they still are, but you usually just pop out the size you need.)
EDIT: micro->mini

[johnpetruna]

"How can Jeff defend himself?"

A question for the ages, for each of us. How indeed?

[globe]

My mom actually had one of those back in the day. Never knew a controller existed for them, but now I kinda want one.

[chriswathen]

'Beefy' SIM. My very first phone in 1999 was a Philips PH301. Took a 'full size' SIM which was literally the entire credit card sized thing a SIM came in for many years - the whole thing went into the phone!

[retropuffer]

The more "wrong" something appears, the most it suits this channel! 😊

[JosiahGould]

There were some awesome J2ME games. I was a huge fan of the Doom and Wolfenstein RPG games. It took the poor performance of the phones and really adapted the games to still be fun.

[giserson]

I had this exact phone as a kid. Never would've imagined it would have been considered a "gaming" phone back then. I recall the display dying after a year or two.
Criminal of you to not demo HoneyCave2 in the video, I played the hell out of that game as a kid.

[electrofreak]

Taking a break from Starfield and seeing this, some crazy whiplash

[No_True_Scotsman]

Fun fact: that's still not a full size SIM, that's a Mini SIM. Full size SIM cards were the size of a credit card.

[congobongo]

Man it's depressing.. I remember that one dude in classroom own a N-gage QD and plays tomb raider on it and we all watch him like some kind of alien from another planet.

[jhhoward]

Back in ~2005 I made a Wolfenstein 3D style raycaster for J2ME! The framerate was actually quite smooth but not much more than a maze to explore. I wonder if the .jar file is still out there somewhere

[Bleats_Sinodai]

I remember in highschool (2006-2008) having one of those windows mobile Motorola phones (Q11 I think?) and playing Doom during class whenever I finished assignments early.

[thejackofclubs]

thats still a minisim. a full size sim is the size of credit card. i remember the original startac having a credit card sized sim.

[titiojack]

Maaan this video unlocked good memories. As a child I used to play Java games like God of War, Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed, Miami Nights and so on, on my late LG GU230, oh God how I miss it.

[ThisSteveGuy]

Tetris Mania is still my favorite version of the game from back in the J2ME days. They had a "cascade mode" which I wish would've become standard.

[DanielMReck]

RIP Jeff.

Wish I could make it to VCF Midwest. Have fun and safe travels, Sean.

[kentreed]

I still remember having a Sony Ericsson W200 in 2011-2012 and man it sure was still the golden era of Java Games on the internet.

They were still everywhere and I used my cellular data (that I managed to crack from my Cell carrier back in the days) to download those Java games.

It's a shame that aggressive copyright laws came after 2012 and killed all of those sites I used, they either were lost to time or became boring sites.