Introduction#

There are options to program old-fashioned 2D games rather easily. Pygames is advertised as such but J2ME is actually relatively easy too and offers interesting deployment possibilities.

Some of the world's best video games have helicopter sprites.

J2ME#

Two tutorials that are rather useful to write a simple 2D game with J2ME

• http://developers.sun.com/mobility/midp/articles/gameapi/
• http://developers.sun.com/mobility/midp/articles/game/

It would be nice to be able to run a J2ME game as an applet. There are a couple libraries on the net that implement J2ME for J2SE but why not roll our own? Well there is microemulator that's LGPL...