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While the hottest smartphone games remain popular, previously overlooked titles get a new chance at this time of year.

At this time of year, holiday travelers are on the roads, sitting in airports, or crammed in the seats of planes, buses and trains, heading to various destinations around the world, and mobile gaming has become an important part of that experience.

These mobile games have allowed children and adults alike to remain entertained throughout long wait times.

The trendiest mobile gaming apps are typically easiest for users to find, since they are often featured at the marketplaces from which they can be downloaded. However, for many travelers, who have to spend hour upon hour in waiting areas and in vehicles as they cross the country to be with their loved ones over the holidays, the most popular games aren’t enough. They need more in order to fill that amount of time. This has opened up opportunities for hidden gems to be discovered.

There have been a number of mobile gaming apps that have already started to be found to be diamonds in the rough.

Among the mobile games that have seen considerable increases in their successes due to holiday travelers are:

• SimpleRockets (By Jundaroo) – this app is available for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone and is a mobile take on the game designed for PC called the Kerbal Space Program, which was highly popular. It requires players to assemble different components to build a rocket ship that will work and take the user to various parts of the moon, the solar system, and the rest of the universe.

• Auralux (By War Drum Studios) – this is a free strategy game app that is simple in design and rules, but complex in the strategy required. It is available for Android and iOS devices and uses the very basics in military planning to create complicated events for defense and capture.

• Virtual Pool Mobile (By Celeris) – this is a mobile gaming alternative to a PC game that had been designed to provide a billiards playing experience that was physically accurate. In fact, the PC game came with a promise that if the accuracy of its physics didn’t allow the player to improve his or her real game of pool, they would get their money back.

As more teens and children get their hands on smartphones, the largest gamer demographic is getting younger.

Recent research published in the 2014 Deconstructing Mobile & Tablet Gaming Report has shown that mobile gaming has become highly prevalent in modern life, and over the last year, there has been a considerable drop in the average age of gamers in this category.

The report was created by EEDAR and showed that there are 142 million mobile gamers in North America.

The mobile gaming study also showed that this figure has increased by 111 over the last year. The average amount of money spent on mobile games over the last year was $32.65. In total, this generated an estimated $4.6 billion in revenue. The leading 6 percent of the spenders in this category are responsible for generating about half of all of that revenue. It should also be noted that almost half of all players of mobile games do not pay for that experience.

The average age of the players in the mobile gaming environment is currently 27.7 years old.

That represents a dramatic drop from the average age in 2013, which was seven years older. Among the primary reasons for this is that it is rapidly becoming more commonplace for adolescents, and even children, to own their own smartphones. This is the case because the cost of lower end devices is falling, making it more affordable for families to be able to equip their youngest members with mobile devices.

In the EEDAR report, the results of the examination of the market showed that casual mobile gamers are most likely to be on the younger side – with an average age of 26 years old – and are most likely to be female (70 percent). Among the core gamers over smartphones and tablets, however, the average age is slightly older than that – at 30 years old – and the players have a greater likelihood of being male (58 percent).

The survey was conducted with the participation of 3,500 active mobile gamers. Each of those individuals had taken part in mobile gaming within the three months prior to the study, using either their smartphones or tablet devices.