Rolando: This is the best game in the App Store, bar none. It's very similar to LocoRoco, but is actually designed for the iPhone from the ground up and has great controls, level design, graphics, and music. Excellent game and well-built, so you can waste some time easily and put it away at any time.
Edge: This game has awesome, C64-ish music, stylish graphics, and good control. Sort of similar to Spindizzy Worlds or the like, with an isometric, Marble Madness-esque view. Good game; not as polished as Rolando, but maybe a bit more fun at times with fewer distractions.
Virtual Pool: This has always been an excellent pool sim, and although the iPhone port isn't super awesome, it's pretty sweet to be able to play a game of pool whenever you feel like it. Good for killing time at bars and stuff (if they don't have a pool table, that is).
rRootage: It's free, it controls well, what more could you ask for? This port doesn't have sound, but it's rRootage - the sound doesn't really add a whole lot in the first place.
Chess with Friends: This should be called 'Chess with People'. You can set up multiple games with total strangers and play over a period of hours, days, or weeks. Set up 5-6 games and check them during downtime. Awesome app if you like chess.
CameraBag: This isn't a game, but it's my favorite photo-related app, and I've tried almost all of them. Pretty simple, has several preset filters that turn your photos into Holga, Lomo, Polaroid-etc fascimilies. Doesn't try to do more than it should, and produces great looking images. The photos that come out of this are so much better than stock iPhone photos, it's incredible.
We here shall not rest until we have made a drawing-room of your shaft, and if you do not all finally go down to your doom in patent-leather shoes, then you shall not go at all.
Sorcerer #1 and Sorcerer #2 : 2 free dungeon crawlers in a Wizardry 1 vein. If you liked The Dark Spire on NDS and played in wireframe mode you'll love it.
There are Rogue and Inethack for those who enjoy their rogue like everywhere too ...
Golvellius, the master system Compile zelda clone, is available on the app store.
Relics a classic msx adventure game is also available on the store. The dev are emulating msx roms/disk images. They published Aleste too but broke the control by removing the dpad, you must move your iphone/ipod to move the ship ...
I really liked the Arkanoid iPhone port by Taito themselves. Too bad my 1st gen iPhone can't really handle it, so I get some lag/stuttering. You can customize it to use animated backgrounds, or go with classic ones or no backgrounds. The background music is OK, but the best thing is that you can choose your own music and if you die or even get the continue prompt, the track doesn't start over, so you won't have to listen to the same track starting over again and again. The touch screen control feels perfect for a breakout game.
Ace Combat is the next major franchise to make the trip to iPhone. Namco Bandai announced today Ace Combat Xi: Skies of Incursion, a new iPhone entry in the fan favorite arcade-style flight series. The game will be released through Bandai Networks America this Winter.
Skies of Incursion is a direct sequel to PSP's Ace Combat X Skies of Deception. The game's story follows the same battle as that title, but focuses on Falcon Squadron, a separate unit in the Aurelian Airforce.
Namco Bandai will be making use of the iPhone's accelerometer and touch screen to give the game a unique interface. It will be possible to pilot your plane by tilting your phone. Additionally, the game balance and play time are being adjusted to better suit mobile players.
First look at Ace Combat on the iPhone.
Pricing has yet to be set for the game. In addition to the main download, players will also be able to download planes separately. The download content is also unpriced at present.
You can see more screenshots of the game at Famitsu.com. A playable build is scheduled to be shown at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show in the Namco Bandai Games booth.
beam wrote:They published Aleste too but broke the control by removing the dpad, you must move your iphone/ipod to move the ship ...
Wow I had no idea Aleste was on the App Store. I'm not sure I feel like risking possibly broken con intetrols at that price though.
Currently it's not playable. I regret buying this and hope for an update with classic controls ala Space Invaders Infinity Gene. They added auto fire but broke the control what a shame
it290 wrote:Rolando: This is the best game in the App Store, bar none. It's very similar to LocoRoco, but is actually designed for the iPhone from the ground up and has great controls, level design, graphics, and music. Excellent game and well-built, so you can waste some time easily and put it away at any time.
Thanks for the tip!
I loved Loco Roco (actually the only psp game i enjoyed) and this game comes pretty close.
Osu (requires jailbreak, though) Excellent ouendan clone with what seems like hundreds of songs to download from within the app. Great game for a quick go on the toilet etc. No1 game on the iphone for me.
Canabalt is on App Store now. It does require the 3.1 firmware though...
Canabalt on iphone is fantastic.
anyone unsure can check the game on http://canabalt.com/ - it's identical to the pc version albeit slightly not as smooth and a darker colour scheme. Music is as great as ever.
Still an awesome "quick" game that's ideally suited to the iphone platform.
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Story/adventure games
- Jules Verne's Return To Mysterious Island
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Side-scrolling platformer/action/adventure
- Sonic The Hedgehog
- Ignite
- Alien Abuse (removed from app store? replaced by Abuse Classic?)
- Hero of Sparta
- Kroll
Puzzle games
- Zen Bound
- Trism
- Peggle
- Auditorium
- PuzzleQuest Chapter 1 and 2
- MotionX Poker
- MewMew Tower
- StoneLoops of Jurassica (removed from app store?)
- Bonsai Blast
- MazeFinger
- Flight Control
- Harbor Master
- iGo
- Azkend
- Labyrinth
Music/rhythm games
- DanceDanceRevolution S
- Tap Tap Revenge 2 (v2.6?)
- Tap Tap Revenge <insert name of band you like here, special edition>
Amusement/ball games
- Vector Ball
- Meteor Brick Breaker
- Block Breaker Deluxe 2
- Air Hockey (Acceleroto version)
- Arcade Bowling (Skyworks version)
- World Cup Table Tennis (Skyworks version)
- 3 Point Hoops Basketball (Skyworks version)
- Goaaal! (Skyworks version)
- Horseshoes Pro (Skyworks version)
- Ten Pin Championship Bowling (Skyworks version)
- Let's Golf!
- Virtual Pool Online
- Paper Toss
PC Engine Fan X! wrote:So how is the classic Data East Laserdisc game of Cobra Command on the iPhone/iPod platform?
It's worth buying for folks who remember playing it on the real arcade cabinet's control yoke. The developers based the motion control steering closely on the original yoke timings, for those of us who remember them, it feels just like the arcade. But those only accustomed to playing a Sega CD, Saturn, or PSX version, might find this portable version difficult to control. Audio-visually it's super clear and crisp.
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