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Important Importables
Jenni Lada brings us information about all of the groovy new gaming imports from around the world.
As you may have noticed, this week’s update fits on one (albeit huge) page, so start browsing to see what’s new this week, because you never know what time-killer just may save you from finally jumping out of that office window.
Games You Might Like
“Bly takes place in a rainforest where you play the weatherman who is able to directly control the weather, with the ultimate goal of making all your butterflies happy. Every action in the game will directly affect what happens in the game, from happy butterflies to forest fires, Bly gives you the chance to explore various ways of beating the game.”
Pirate Master III: Price: $5.99
“Welcome to Pirate Master – The Ultimate Challenge! To claim title as THE “Pirate Master” you must prove your skills in quick maneuvering, fast paced puzzle solving, and clever combat techniques. In each level, your mission is to locate five golden statues. Once you have claimed all five statues you will be transferred to the next level where new challenges are awaiting. Complete all fourteen levels and you will champion as the new ”Pirate Master”. In order to complete the challenge, you must fight enemies and avoid lethal traps as you navigate through the level. Each level contains a map that you must first find then use it to plan your route through the maze as quickly as possible. As you progress through the levels you will face increasingly sophisticated systems of trapdoors moving baskets and lethal traps that puts your problem solving skills to the test. Add to this, a never-ending attack of enemies you can practice your martial arts skills on, unless of course, they outsmart you first.”
ALESTE: Price: $6.99
“Aleste, the Japanese historic shoot’em up, came to iPhone/iPodTouch. You can move the fighter by tilting, and fire bullets by tapping. Manipulate the control of the cutting-edge fighter “Aleste” to discourage the runaway environmental control computer.” Background: ALESTE is a shooter made by Compile in 1988 for the MSX and the Sega Master System.
Dropship: Price: $1.99
“Welcome back Commander - Pilot your Dropship, power-up your weapons and penetrate enemy caverns destroying turrets, tanks & Interceptors as you fight to Evac your stranded allies and retrieve “the pod”. Effect your daring escape with your cargo in tow dodging enemy fire, homing missiles with your vector thrust powered super ship. Dropship Features - Breakthrough ‘touch-anywhere’ dual-analog controls deliver 360 degrees of freedom. Push your iPhone & iPod touch to the limit with stunning visual effects and intense retro arcade-inspired 3D environments. Deep gameplay with a full Campaign mode covering 18 missions to challenge even the most expert pilot. Expand the adventure with Downloadable levels. Freeplay Mode ensures infinite replayablity and a lifetime of fun.
Chronicles of Inotia: Legend of Feanor: Price: $7.99
“Fight to survive as you make your way through vast plains and deserted forests where enchanted monsters lurk! Search for clues to the source of the evil energy controlling the monsters near haunted monuments. Defeat your enemies in time to save the beautiful but chaotic land of Inotia from disaster. Features: Old-school action RPG, PC, console-quality graphics and animation, optimized touch control for iPhone, gigantic map, items, all kinds of fantasy monsters, and dynamic weather, various quests, dealing, and pet system.
Play Detail:
Create your hero, choosing your own combination of attributes like power, health, intelligence, speed, then seek out villagers who can help you begin your journey and complete quests to track the evil dragon Deathtaker, who disappeared after an epic battle. As you travel you will protect yourself and earn gold by battling monsters. A merchant visits different towns at different times, and you can buy necessary items including weapons and armor from him. You can raise a pet that will improve your attributes. And when you finally reach your journey’s end, you will be rewarded splendidly!”
Chocolate Shop Frenzy: Price: $7.99
“Put your chocolate making skills to the test in this delicious Time Management and Puzzle adventure. Are you ready to become a chocoholic? Help Emma achieve her life long dream to become a chocolate shop owner. Emma just quit her marketing job and she now has to successfully run the chocolate shop for 12 months to pay back the loan. Evil competitors and other special events are not making her job any easier.”
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: Price: $4.99
“All New Millionaire, All New Rules Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for the iPhone and iPod Touch shakes-up the hot seat with two new lifelines and a dramatic new countdown clock. Based on the updated show rules, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for the iPhone and iPod Touch brings a new intensity to the franchise, but with the classic Millionaire charm we all know by heart.”
What’s Free
Crazy Penguin Catapult Lite
“Play Crazy Penguin Catapult for FREE! Fend off invading Polar Bears by hurtling courageous penguins at them with your trusty catapult! Help the penguins win back Antarctica and play 6 out of the 30 levels of hilarious action! Download the full version to defeat the polar bears once and for all! Triumph in boss battles and unlock crazy penguin power-ups including Ninja, Fire, The Twins and more! Load your cute little penguins onto the catapult and launch them to the sky!”
Klaus
“Does this sound familiar to you? You’re on your way home from a place where as far as you can remember a great party happened last night. And although it’s already light out, you can’t find your way which unfortunately is the least of your problems since you’d be happy if you could at least walk straight and stop wondering if you lost your clothes in this awful Poker game or if the tall blond took them (and if yes, where is she now?). So, if you have been there too, help Klaus to keep it up.”
TeruTeru
“TeruTeru is easy and simple game. And it is fun! You operate TeruTeru by incline iPhone. Get the candy and run away from enemy!”
Hanukkah Match
“Match the festive Hannukah items in the game as fast as you possibly can! Compete for highscores worldwide!”
Roll Trio LT
“Roll Trio LT is the LITE version of RollTrio XL.”
“Find pairs of cards and watch them disappear. How fast can you clear the cards with the fewest mistakes? Challenge your concentration and sharpen your memory with an adorable cast of Christmas characters.”
Fuzzle Christmas
“This is the free, Christmas edition of Fuzzle, providing a new christmas look+music, while allowing you to try the game for free! Fuzzle is the top-selling, dangerously addictive puzzle game. Both simple to learn, yet challenging to master! Move the balls around the board to create lines of five balls of the same color, thus removing the balls, while after every other move you make, more balls are added. The goal is to keep the board from filling up as long as possible.”
iType Xmas
“iphone/ipod typing game with Christmas-themed words”
“Bly takes place in a rainforest where you play the weatherman who is able to directly control the weather, with the ultimate goal of making all your butterflies happy. Every action in the game will directly affect what happens in the game, from happy butterflies to forest fires, Bly gives you the chance to explore various ways of beating the game.”
O2 Festive Kit
“‘Tis the season to be jolly. Especially as we’re giving you the O2 festive kit, a collection of three fun downloadable apps for your iPhone. First of all there’s guaranteed snow wherever you are, with the O2 snow shaker. Choose a pic from your photo album, give your iPhone a shake and let it snow, let it snow, let it… you get the idea. With our second app you can get underneath the mistletoe with anyone you fancy. Hold your iPhone over their head and press the ‘smooch’ button while giving them that festive kiss. Last but not least, you can jingle all the way through the festive season with our O2 sleigh bells app. Touch each bell or give your iPhone a shake to get them jingling.”
Snowed In - White Christmas
“Christmas wonderland is frozen over - Help Santa assemble all his goodies before the evil Gnome can stop him!”
BombBlocks Lite
“Navigate and place different puzzle pieces to blast your way though levels of addictive puzzle gaming. Pick it up and play for a few minutes or spend a whole evening blasting blocks. Race against the clock in this fast paced puzzler. Test your skills as you try to keep the game board clear while creating 3x3 or greater solid areas to obliterate the objective blocks from the game board.”
Swamp Numbers
“If you need helping solving Sudoku puzzles, Swamp Numbers is the program for you. After entering a puzzle from a book or newspaper, you can do the puzzle with Swamp Numbers identifying errors you make and providing hints when you are stuck. For difficult puzzles, Swamp Numbers allows you to enter candidate values in each cell to help you apply more advanced solution techniques. When you don’t have a puzzle book, you can have Swamp Numbers generate a puzzle. Nine levels are available ranging from simple puzzles to those that will challenge experienced solvers.”
Crazy Sage
“Sage can provide you with hours of random insanity disguised as sage advice with flashes of amazingly sensible counsel.”
WordPops Lite
“WordPops is an addictive cross between Tetris® and Scrabble®. Spell words with your finger to stop the bubbles from filling the screen. Earn more points by spelling difficult words, while adding bonuses to really put your score over the top. The game gets faster as you clear more rows of bubbles. Use freeze, explosion and mutate bubbles to your advantage and try to beat your top scores.”
Action
Duck Killer: Price: $0.99
“They’re all just ill ducks, infected with avian influenza. Their aggression cannot be controlled, while birds have nothing in mind except for the wish to fly further. And so they fly, forming flocks and swarms. Re-charging your barrels and knocking feathered creatures down – this is your mission. Battles on an unknown area, a huge backpack filled with weapons and trophies made of ducks in the few minutes of respite – the severe days of a real domestic birds orderly.”
Frog Toss: Price: $0.99
“Frog Toss brings the classic frog toss game in your pocket!”
Pirate Master III: Price: $5.99
“Welcome to Pirate Master – The Ultimate Challenge! To claim title as THE “Pirate Master” you must prove your skills in quick maneuvering, fast paced puzzle solving, and clever combat techniques. In each level, your mission is to locate five golden statues. Once you have claimed all five statues you will be transferred to the next level where new challenges are awaiting. Complete all fourteen levels and you will champion as the new ”Pirate Master”. In order to complete the challenge, you must fight enemies and avoid lethal traps as you navigate through the level. Each level contains a map that you must first find then use it to plan your route through the maze as quickly as possible. As you progress through the levels you will face increasingly sophisticated systems of trapdoors moving baskets and lethal traps that puts your problem solving skills to the test. Add to this, a never-ending attack of enemies you can practice your martial arts skills on, unless of course, they outsmart you first.”
Snowball Runner: Price: $0.99
“Steer your snowball down the treacherous mountain. Swallow animals and snowmen to increase the snowball’s size and avoid obstacles to survive. But beware! Growing your snowball increases your speed and makes dodging obstacles more difficult. Grab gifts to become invincible or instantaneously large and hit ramps to fly through clouds. With your cat-like reflexes, navigate your snowball into the record books. Submit your score online and compete to become the World’s Snowball Runner Champion. Snowball Runner is an addicting, action-packed experience with mind-blowing visuals and sound. The game is an array of stunning imageries with herds of moving animals and sophisticated flag courses. It pushes performance boundaries, with the animation of up to 100 independent objects simultaneously in real-time. The game complements the scenic landscape with electronic music from the talented SCI Recordings. Snowball Runner features: A fast-paced and exciting racing game with a variety of unique scenarios including: animal kingdom, flag courses, trees and lakes of death, cliff jumping, and ramp jumping. Infinite levels! Each level is unique each time you play so it never gets boring. Local and online high scores.”
TargetTap: Price: $0.99
“Test your reflexes with this exciting new game made exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Hit the red targets quickly to pop them and build up massive combos, but watch out for other colored targets which will make you lose a life! Also don’t miss any red ones because you will also lose a life! Look out for the one-up cloud to score an extra life! How long can you survive!”
ALESTE: Price: $6.99
“Aleste, the Japanese historic shoot’em up, came to iPhone/iPodTouch. You can move the fighter by tilting, and fire bullets by tapping. Manipulate the control of the cutting-edge fighter “Aleste” to discourage the runaway environmental control computer.” Background: ALESTE is a shooter made by Compile in 1988 for the MSX and the Sega Master System.
BurnBall : Price: $0.99
“The Evil Dr Gray has kidnapped your friends and taken over the planet! His dastardly plan of turning the entire planet Gray is almost complete. Stop him! You play Roy, on a mission to rescue your friends Gibee and Ive, to stop Dr Gray, and return color to the planet. Enjoy the comic book background story, and the cute instructions. Once you’ve mastered the easy game and have rescued your friends, go on to try the hard and OMG!! games. See how many times you can collect the BurnBall fireball power up during the game to double your speed. The music evokes feeling, and the sound effects bring extra life to the game. We are interested in hearing what you think of this game, so we can fine tune it to be most enjoyable for you. Please leave a review after you’ve tried it, or to engage in conversation join us in the BurnBall Facebook group.”
Crazy Penguin Catapult: Price: $4.99
“Help the penguins win back Antarctica and play 30 levels of hilarious action! Triumph in boss battles and unlock crazy penguin power-ups including Ninja, Fire, The Twins and more! Load your cute little penguins onto the catapult and launch them to the sky! Game Features: Play 30 levels including Boss Battles and Bonus Levels. Two great games in one: Arcade-style “Campaign” mode and turn-based “Strategy” mode. Use 9 clever power-ups. Explore 3 unique maps.”
Magic Bone Breaker: Price: $2.99
“Magic Bone Breaker creates the illusion of X-Raying your fingers, breaking one off - then fixing it back onto your hand. Vibrant graphics, animation and a secret move combine to create this jaw-dropping magic trick. Magic Bone Breaker includes: The specially designed mobile app for both the left and right hand. Full performance instructions. Learn in seconds, amaze your friends and family.”
Momo Samurai: Price: $2.99
“Move your Momo Samurai and force ogres into the sea! Wipe out all the ogres and proceed to the next level.”
RazorPhone: Price: $0.99
“It sounds like a razor, it feels like a razor - yeah it is a razor! This is a really great fun app giving a realistic shave to our proband. Shave wherever you want but be careful to leave him look handsome. Try some things like shaving his eyebrows or the nose (ouch). Shake your device if you like to start a new razor session and go to the settings for more options (vibrations are disabled per default for security reasons but you can turn them on).”
Reflexis: Price: $0.99
“Reflexis is an app that helps to increase reflex, an super- crucial skill for gamers, athletes or anyone with a job that demands concentration, tenacity, and especially good reflex.”
East Story : Price: $1.99
“You are private soldier John Rembrandt, the only survived in the helicopter crash in the Arabian Desert. You are surrounded by tons of enemy soldiers, no single chance to survive!” Note: East Story looks like a first-person arcade shooter.
Power Towers: Price: $1.99
“Power Towers is the tower defense game that is focused on strategy and gameplay. Stop the bad guys from crossing the screen. It’s simple. And it’s great fun! There’s a lot in PowerTowers to explore, enough to keep you intrigued for a long time. However brave American soldier will not give up and ready to take down the enemy.”
Vong: Price: $0.99
“Vong is a 3D retro remake of classic pong. The gameplay is simple. Control a paddle with the accelerometer or touch, and make sure the cube doesn’t get past your goalie. Play against to computer or another human player (sharing the same iPod or iPhone). The settings menu allows you to customize many aspects of the gameplay. Increasing the size of the paddle, and adjust the speed of the cube are just a few of the configurations.”
Guardian: Price: $0.99
“A determined enemy threatens to launch a devastating missile attack against your city. Only the Guardian Missile Defense System stands between the helpless citizens and complete annihilation. Enjoy the gripping action and engaging graphics as you defend the beleaguered city against a merciless rain of destruction from above. Improve your skills and earn faster missiles, more launchers, and other advanced technology as your score increases. You will need them to defend against the powerful new weapons under development by the enemy. Touch the screen to fire a Guardian missile at an incoming target. The remaining ammunition is displayed below the city at the launcher location. Try to conserve your ammunition as you protect the city and your Guardian launchers. Once you have earned multiple launchers, the closest launcher to the target will fire. To fire only a specific launcher, touch that launcher. Touch it a second time to return to firing from all launchers. Touch the “||” pause button to pause the game and adjust the music and sound volume.”
HyperCannon: Price: $3.99
“HyperCannon is an addictive arcade style shooter. You take on the role of saving the solar system from invading hordes of space fiends. The evil core is sending a barrage of asteroids and an evil army of machines to destroy the free planets of the galaxy. It’s up to you to fight them off with the powerful weapon systems of the HyperCannon.”
Dizzy Bee 2: Price: $2.99
“Dizzy Bee is back in an all-new adventure. Meet baddies like you’ve never seen that will literally eat you up and spit you out! Can you help your Fruit Friends make their way through grinding gears, around sticky webs and past wild turrets? There are twice as many Fruit Friends as before for you to guide and protect. This time there are power ups to help you get back at those baddies! 2 Oceans, 8 islands plus 2 bonus islands, 2 difficulty levels, 8 Fruit Friends, power ups and a ton of baddies will keep you tilting and turning your iPhone or iPod Touch for hours!”
Dropship: Price: $1.99
“Welcome back Commander - Pilot your Dropship, power-up your weapons and penetrate enemy caverns destroying turrets, tanks & Interceptors as you fight to Evac your stranded allies and retrieve “the pod”. Effect your daring escape with your cargo in tow dodging enemy fire, homing missiles with your vector thrust powered super ship. Dropship Features - Breakthrough ‘touch-anywhere’ dual-analog controls deliver 360 degrees of freedom. Push your iPhone & iPod touch to the limit with stunning visual effects and intense retro arcade-inspired 3D environments. Deep gameplay with a full Campaign mode covering 18 missions to challenge even the most expert pilot. Expand the adventure with Downloadable levels. Freeplay Mode ensures infinite replayablity and a lifetime of fun.
iDrone: Price: $2.99
“iDrone is a 3D simulation of an unmanned aerial vehicle that you fly over a large dessert city. iDrone has a target practice mode where you locate and destroy targets throughout the city. iDrone has a mission mode where you fly your unmanned aerial vehicle on specific missions to destroy one or more targets.”
Juggle: Price: $0.99
“Juggle with your fingers! This fun game lets you juggle bouncy balls with your fingers. Score points by bouncing off the walls and keeping the balls from falling off the bottom. Practice mode lets you get the hang of things with no fear of dropping a ball. Juggle takes full advantage of your iPhone or iPod Touch’s amazing multi-touch interface.”
“The fearsome KamiCrazy soldiers have crash landed in the jungle on return from battle! They need to get back to their ship to continue their hell-bent war efforts but the treacherous terrain and dangerous locals aren’t going to make that task easy. It’s your task to guide the KamiCrazy soldiers and you’ll need to flick, push, nudge and swing them to safety using the touch screen while avoiding the numerous hazards and traps. Use the objects left in the jungle by the locals to help you on your way such as springs, ropes and fans. Try to save them all, but don’t worry too much… sometimes you’ll have to make some sacrifices! KamiCrazy is a combination of a traditional platforming game with classic puzzle elements, and combines smooth animation and stylised graphics with great fast-paced-game-play. With forty rich, colourful and puzzling levels and two distinct themes KamiCrazy is a must have game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.”
Save Christmas: Price: $1.99
“Get into the Holiday spirit and enjoy the Christmas atmosphere. But ho, ho, ho! Where are the presents? All of them are falling down! Save them by sorting them to the right basket! Pair the ribbon colour on each present with the colour of ribbon on each basket. You earn points for each correctly sorted present and lose points for every misplaced present.”
Monkey Jump: Price: $0.99
“Help the monkey to collect all bananas jumping from one side to the other. A jump costs energy and you lose energy if you collide with an enemy. Game is over when all energy is lost.”
Snoozle: Price: $0.99
“Snoozle is an addictive puzzle game that is easy to learn but difficult to master! Use the touchscreen to flick the balls to the top of the screen. Match 3 of the same color to clear them from the screen. Clear 10 to advance to the next level. Each new level adds a new colored ball. When you clear a ball that has others attached to it, they drop away. Drop 10 to earn a swap - double-tap to change the current ball to whatever color you need!”
Adventure
Chronicles of Inotia: Legend of Feanor: Price: $7.99
“Fight to survive as you make your way through vast plains and deserted forests where enchanted monsters lurk! Search for clues to the source of the evil energy controlling the monsters near haunted monuments. Defeat your enemies in time to save the beautiful but chaotic land of Inotia from disaster. Features: Old-school action RPG, PC, console-quality graphics and animation, optimized touch control for iPhone, gigantic map, items, all kinds of fantasy monsters, and dynamic weather, various quests, dealing, and pet system.
Play Detail:
Create your hero, choosing your own combination of attributes like power, health, intelligence, speed, then seek out villagers who can help you begin your journey and complete quests to track the evil dragon Deathtaker, who disappeared after an epic battle. As you travel you will protect yourself and earn gold by battling monsters. A merchant visits different towns at different times, and you can buy necessary items including weapons and armor from him. You can raise a pet that will improve your attributes. And when you finally reach your journey’s end, you will be rewarded splendidly!”
Santa Wings: Rudolph’s Christmas Flight: Price: $0.99
“Get into the Holiday Spirit with Santa Wings. Guide Santa’s sleigh through a cold Winter night. Fly from Santa’s perspective looking over your team of reindeer or float through the scenery alone. Use the dangling air freshener if you forget which way is down. Enjoy four great holiday music tracks or enjoy your own iPod music. But stay alert or you may crash Santa’s sleigh. Features: 3D Winter landscape with starry sky and moonlit mountains. Beginner’s Float mode and more advanced Fly mode. Barrel rolls and flips can be performed in Fly mode. Four professionally recorded holiday music tracks (good ones too). Fun crash effects. Moonlit reflective lakes. Flight controls for quick modification (just tap the screen while flying). Speed control – go from hover to very, very fast. Completely custom holiday interface. Very funny reindeer – crank up the speed and watch these little guys haul! Santa sound effects.”
Firefighters: Price: $0.99
“Help save the city from pending destruction! Firefighters puts you in control of an elite crew of firefighters…. and your the city’s only chance! As the Fire Choppers deploy your crew to buildings that need it most, you’ll gain experience, medals and build up your team. This classic arcade style game with three different skill modes makes it fun and challenging for a wide range of players. Now is when the city needs you, are you up to the challenge? Bring it on!”
Flux Capacitor: Price: $0.99
“Have you ever wanted to travel back in time? The Flux Capacitor is the only iPhone app that enables you to do just that without the need of an expensive DeLorean. The Flux has exciting visual graphics and literally puts history in your hands by providing fascinating recaps of the greatest innovations of our time. Have you ever wondered what year gave us sliced bread? Learn what year Jobs and Wozniak started Apple. Test your skills and see how far you can travel back in time today! Features: Animated glowing flux capacitor. Multi-touch finger prints with lightning effects. Accelerometer quick charge. Digital display of current date. Computerized voice guidance system. Tech News of the year.”
Arcade
Sho Chiku Bai: Price: $4.99
“Pachinko—Japan’s most popular game—is now available on iPhone and iPod Touch! With its anime-style characters, vivid lights and animation, and authentic gameplay, Sho Chiku Bai is the closest thing to being in a pachinko parlor itself. And if you’re new to pachinko, Sho Chiku Bai’s instructions will give you the perfect introduction. Sho Chiku Bai also features an original J-Pop single composed by Norihiko Hibino (Gem Impact, Inc.), famed composer from the Metal Gear Solid series!”
Boardwalk Bowl: Price: $0.99
“Step right up to play this classic boardwalk amusement game! Relive your fondest childhood memories in stunning 3D! Roll the ball with a flick of your finger while you enjoy the authentic sound effects and carnival ambience.” Note: Looks like its a Skee ball game.
Kickups Soccer: Price: $0.99
“A classic arcade game. Maintain the control over the ball, don’t let it fall on the ground. Try to kick it in the air as many times as you can. Tap the ball with your finger to kick it.”
Photo Hunter Holiday Edition 2008: Price: $0.99
“Based on the iPhone favorite, Photo Hunter, the Holiday Edition brings you high quality holiday themed photos with the same great game play enjoyed in the original game. Photo Hunter reinvents the classic bar game that challenges you to think, react and touch. Score points by accurately identifying subtle differences between two similar photos as quickly as you possibly can. Train and improve your visual perception skills and hand-eye coordination. Then challenge the world. Instantly upload your scores to our website to see how you stack up. Hours of fun awaits!”
HyperCannon: Price: $3.99
“HyperCannon is an addictive arcade style shooter. You take on the role of saving the solar system from invading hordes of space fiends. The evil core is sending a barrage of asteroids and an evil army of machines to destroy the free planets of the galaxy. It’s up to you to fight them off with the powerful weapon systems of the HyperCannon.”
BLAST!: Price: $1.99
“BLAST! is a fast paced action/arcade style shooting game built for the Iphone and Ipod Touch! We proudly present this special version of BLAST! Just in time for the holidays, and at a special holiday price!”
Pop: Price: $4.99
“Pop bubbles, build chains and try to keep the timer alive in this addictive puzzle/shooter.”
Roll Trio XL: Price: $1.99
“Three classic puzzle games in one great value package! Roll Trio XL contains: Rolltrix, Rollems, and Rollbeens.”
Slingshot: Price: $2.99
“Due to a logistical error you and 16 of your arch-est enemies have been left stranded in the all-too-close quarters of the same small solar system. With the fuel gauge on empty and a hull full of missiles you will now take turns firing the deadly torpedos at each other. (As opposed to figuring out a way to strap them to your ship and propel yourself to safety). Slingshot is a challenging game of space and physics where you’ll use the planets’ gravity to get your missile to its target. Find a route to your opponent quickly, but don’t be too direct; Slingshot rewards meandering missiles.”
Board
Party Pal - Standard: Price: $1.99
“Party Pal is the new social quiz game for your next get-together! Tons of fun and loads of laughs for everyone, it is a must have for your next party. Want to know what stereotypes those closest to you hold or who is most likely associate you with an inanimate object… NOW YOU CAN and you will want to play every time there is a soiree, a sleep over or a handful of folks having drinks at the house. Party Pal is more than just a trivia game, it tests both your knowledge of your friends and your own opinions and associations.”
Reversi Professional: Price: $0.99
“Reversi is the classic strategy board game of territorial occupation involving placement & capture of game pieces and has been a favourite with board gamers for many years. Reversi was invented by Lewis Waterman who marketed his game in London in 1880. It is an uncomplicated board game and its addictive nature can be enjoyed by players of all abilities. Reversi is played on an 8 x 8 board between two opponents using different coloured pieces or “stones”. The object of the game is to be the player with the most pieces of their colour at the end of the game. Reversi is fast-moving and skillful test of wits which will make time disappear in a way that shouldn’t be possible.”
GameBox Asia: Price: $0.99
“GameBox Asia is our excellent quality, authentic collection of three famous tile games of the Orient. Incredible graphics, authentic Chinese tile sets and boards, and incredible playability combine to make this the best possible tile game for your iPhone. Three classic games: Mahjong, Shisen-Sho, and Nagori.”
Kusari Christmas Edition: Price: $0.99
“A special Christmas Edition of the classic Kusari game! Think you’re quick enough to deliver all of Santa’s presents in one night? Can you figure out the best routes between the houses without stopping? Want to practice to become the real Santa? Then this game is for you! In this seasonal twist on Kusari, you play Santa’s apprentice, Little Santa. Little Santa has job to do - to deliver all of his presents to all of the houses in the time limit, just like the real Santa must do every Christmas. Collect carrots, mince pies and glasses of sherry as rewards for your performance and exchange them for candy canes at the end of each level. When you have enough candy canes you can buy bonuses like speed-ups, torches and route-finders to help Little Santa succeed on his mission.”
Math Sticker: Price: $2.99
“Challenge your logic skills! Find the right place of the matches and solve the actual riddle! Choose the right level for yourself and if you don’t succeed the first time, don’t give up! Improve your math sticker ability, raise the bar every time! Rapid riddles for your brain gears!”
Deep Green (Chess): Price: $4.99
“Following up on the success of its multi-award winning Newton predecessor, Deep Green for iPhone and iPod touch is finally here. Playing chess has never been such a pleasant experience. On any platform! Everything is beautifully rendered; from the board and pieces to the way they animate. If you want to to truly enjoy chess, make sure to download Deep Green.”
PicZee Pro: Price: $0.99
“PicZee™ is a whole new way to play unlimited puzzles with your favorite photos in your iPhone or iPod albums. You can create jigsaw puzzles with photos on the fly. Gather everyone in your party and have fun snapping each person’s funny poses from within PicZee in iPhone and have them solve their pictures to see how they compete in PicZee hall of fame. This is a riot in parties! Unlike other puzzles out there PicZee’s new way of playing makes it no longer a struggle to manage heaps of puzzle pieces. With PicZee, all puzzle pieces are squares or rectangles and you view all pieces at once, swapping positions as you drag-n-drop. PicZee features intuitive-smart-play. All game settings are totally flexible and interchangeable as you like. Shake to shuffle the picture tiles at any time. Stuck at a tile in suspense? Double tap it to see where it should go. Need help sorting out a complex 64 piece game? Try full hint to let PicZee solve from where you are and bring you back. All hints show moves with cool animation. PicZee’s smart tracking and fun messages alert or entertain you throughout the game as you race against scores in dashboard. For around the price of a cup of coffee, get entertained playing with your photos forever!”
TicTacToe Infinity: Price: $0.99
“This is a TicTacToe.” Note: Looks like a Star Wars themed Tic-Tac-Toe game.
Card
i4nPoker: Price: $2.99
“i4nPoker is a video poker game based on a five card draw poker. Play against your device and test your luck just like with casino video poker slot machine. Yet, this game doesn’t have any pay schedule, so all you win depends on your luck only. The game is played with a standard 52 cards deck and one wild Joker card. You have 3 deals to collect a winning hand. Refer to the Payoff Table to see the list of all winning hands. However, you don’t just collect a hand and take win - you also proceed to Double Up mode and get a chance to get maximum of your win.”
Online Euchre: $3.99
“Play the classic card game of Euchre on your iPhone or iPod touch! You can play by yourself against the AI or with people all over the world online! Euchre, for those who may not know, is an addictive trump-based card game like Spades or Hearts. With a great balance of skill and luck, it’s a game that takes a short time to learn, but a long time to master.”
Megatouch Lucky 11’s: Price: $1.99
“Now you can enjoy your favorite Megatouch countertop games on your iPhone or iPod touch and take the fun anywhere you go! Start your personal Megatouch library with Lucky 11’s. Are you ready to pull off the biggest casino heist in history? The target is Las Vegas Boulevard – home to 3 of the most secure vaults ever built. Clear the board of chips by creating groups that equal 11. The odds are stacked against you, but the loot is yours if you can crack all 3 vaults in time.”
Pick21: Price: $2.99
“Are you a beginner or card shark? Either will do for this fun game of 21. Put your game hat on and arrange your cards into 5 columns so the sum of each column equals 21. Don’t go over 21 in any of the columns or you will go bust. You get 3 rounds to maximize your total score and prove that you are lethal with a deck!”
Casino
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Dice
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Educational
Slinky Ink: Price: $0.99
“Remember your old sprigraph? Well, slinky ink is like a spirograph on steroids. It combines several layers of spiral motion to create very unique and interesting patterns. Watching Slinky Ink can be a very relaxing and meditative experience, there are 17 presets to start with the ability to make your own patterns in our next update.”
Einstein Trivia: Price: $4.99
“This devilishly tricky trivia quiz is about Einstein, his life and work. Can you puzzle out the mysteries of chemicals, reactions and the universe? How much do you know about the life and work of a genius? Challenge your knowledge of Einstein himself as well as the chemistry and physics he loved ... and learn interesting facts about the colorful character who is Albert Einstein!”
Filmzitate Quiz: $1.99
Note: Filmzitate Quiz is a film quiz in German
Moo Shake!: Price: $0.99
“Designed for kids aged 3 to 10, this fun and simple game lets you swipe and shake animals characters, making funny combinations and a lot of animal noises on the way to putting the right segments together! You can just play at first, or start a game by trying to match as many animals as you can before time runs out. Illustrations and animations are by a professional children’s book illustrator and include a dancing cow, a karate practising zebra, a cat who likes ballet and a snorkelling frog. Moo Shake! is a fun way to improve hand-eye co-ordination, while learning about about animals and the sounds they make.”
Bright and Beyond - Age 1 Lite Instant Activities: Price: $0.99
“Be ready with quick and creative ideas that you can set up in about a minute. This lite app includes 10 easy and fun parent-and-me activities drawn from the award winning Bright and Beyond Playtime Activities app! Flicking through all the activities is easy. Each card is illustrated on one side, and with a press of a button, the card flips over and displays the simple written instructions.”
Brain Blaze Add: Price: $0.99
“Boost your brainpower and keep your brain young with this fun and challenging educational game. Each of the twelve sets presents you with a set of addition flashcards of increasing difficulty. Your goal is to complete each of the twelve sets as accurately and quickly as possible. You can view your progress on a color-coded addition grid. This application is great for all ages. Adults can keep their brains active and challenged by regularly playing this game. Kids can learn and reinforce their 12x12 addition facts by working their way through each of the twelve sets and then repeating sets to increase their accuracy and time scores. An artificial intelligence algorithm generates plausible multiple-choice answers for each flashcard. Can you beat it? Missed problems are saved and presented in later sets to reinforce learning.”
My Brain Age: Price: $0.99
“My Brain Age” helps users find out their brain ages and improve short term memory. Every iPhone user knows about her/his age, but how old is her/his brain? This iPhone application trains users to memorize the numbers in 1-2 seconds and repeat their positions on iPhone screen. It helps users ( including kids) to concentrate on numbers. Our study shows that user’ short term memory improves greatly after playing this game a few time a week.”
iToy Hebrew Phone for kids: Price: $0.99
“Finally the solution for those calls your child makes on your phone while playing with it! No more embarrasing explanations for looong calls or losing minutes from your calling plan costing you extra! The fun for your child is not over since this application looks like the real keypad! It is also a simple and educational tool where your child will be learning numbers in HEBREW while having fun! Every time they press a number key, the sound of each of the numbers plays. The phone also plays messages like “Shalom”, “Lehitraot” and more….. We are sure you and your child are going to love this application that will keep him busy while waiting in line, at a restaurant or a long car ride! Please send us any comments or suggestion that you may have since we are working on many more fun and educational applications!”
iToy Spanish Phone for kids: Price: $0.99
“Finally the solution for those calls your child makes on your phone while playing with it! No more embarrasing explanations for looong calls or losing minutes from your calling plan costing you extra! The fun for your child is not over since this application looks like the real keypad! It is also a simple and educational tool where your child will be learning numbers in SPANISH while having fun! Every time they press a number key, the sound of each of the numbers plays. The phone also plays messages like “Hola”, “Adios” and more….. We are sure you and your child are going to love this application that will keep him busy while waiting in line, at a restaurant or a long car ride! Please send us any comments or suggestion that you may have since we are working on many more fun and educational applications!”
Family
Christmas Naughty/Nice Detector: Price: $0.99
“Just in time for the holidays, this application allows your iPhone to use it’s advanced accelerometer technology to let you know whose been naughty and whose been nice for Christmas. Great for office parties, family gatherings, or maybe just to help get the kids motivated to go out and rake the leaves. Just tilt the iPhone upward slightly to tag someone as naughty, or tilt the iPhone downward slightly to tag them as nice. Hold the iPhone back at the position you started with and it will stop. Make sure volume is up, as not only does the iPhone flash bright red and green with the words naughty or nice on it, but it also clearly speaks the status as well.”
Christmas Tree 3D is a visually pleasing diversion, which allows you to decorate a Christmas tree, then take a snapshot to send to your friends and family. You can select a tree, decorate it with variety of 3D ornaments, blinking lights, colored balls, tree toppers, ribbons, candy canes, and gingerbread men. Add a decorative skirt under the tree, place the presents, and even a moving model train. Use swipes to navigate through pages of ornaments and lights, and taps to place them on and off. Dimmer can be used to turn down the lighting in the room to enjoy the animated lights! When you are satisfied with your creation, use pinch and swipe to position the camera, take a snapshot of your work, save it in your photo album, and send it to your friends and family!”
SlidePop: Price: $2.99
“Discover simple and addictive gameplay in the delightful hand-drawn graphics of SlidePop. Slide a row and line up 3 or more items of a kind then watch them pop in a shower of glittering stars. Boost your score with combos to uncover different design themes and new special pieces.”
Touch To Find Episode 1: Price: $0.99
“If you are a fan of challenges, you’ve come to the right place. At first, you might think it’s a piece of cake but trust me it’s not! Stimulate your visual perception abilities and boost it up by quickly finding three differences between two similar photos.”
Music
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Puzzle
Wordplay: Price: $1.99
“Wordplay is an exciting new word puzzler that is sure to have you voicing your frustration. By sliding the letters around your goal is to spell out the bonus word to move onto the new level. But why the rush? Why not prolong each level by seeing how many words you can find, or choose to spell the bonus word one letter at a time. Spell multiple words in a row to chain for bonus multipliers for that mega high score. As the levels progress you will need to deal with a range of difficult letters including bombs, lightning, freeze, blanks, jokers, locks and clocks. Use lightning to devastating effect to clear the line knocking out bombs and locks. Lost for words? Double tap a blank to select any letter you need! In later levels you will deal with double scrolling rows and columns as well as ever more difficult words to spell, use the Freeze to stop this in its tracks. So, how vocabutastic are you?”
Christmas POP!: Price: $0.99
“Celebrate Christmas with this fun, addictive puzzler. Play as Santa and swap places with gifts and ornaments for your Christmas tree. Slide your finger anywhere on the screen to move Santa and create combinations of four or more similar objects to POP them! Great, simple controls combined with intuitive shape recognition gameplay will have you popping for hours! If you get into trouble and are running out of time, remember to tap on the bells to clear the screen and get a few seconds added to your timer. Featuring a great jazz track and fun in-game sounds and effects, Christmas POP! is the definitive Yuletide puzzler.”
Jewel Lines: Price: $2.99
“Jewel Lines is an awesome, easy to learn, difficult to master, puzzle game for the iPhone/iPod Touch. The goal is to build a line of five or more jewels to remove them from the board. If the board fills up – the game is over.
To move a jewel from one field to another – simply tap on the jewel (it will start animating in 3D), and then tap on an empty board field you can move the jewel to. Fields that cannot be reached will have a red hue when you select a jewel.”
Chocolate Shop Frenzy: Price: $7.99
“Put your chocolate making skills to the test in this delicious Time Management and Puzzle adventure. Are you ready to become a chocoholic? Help Emma achieve her life long dream to become a chocolate shop owner. Emma just quit her marketing job and she now has to successfully run the chocolate shop for 12 months to pay back the loan. Evil competitors and other special events are not making her job any easier.”
Shinro Mines: Price: $0.99
“Solve Shinro puzzles to clear the minefields and progress through the levels! With Shinro Mines you’ll have unlimited Shinro puzzles with exciting sounds, animations, and explosions. Shinro Mines is a feast for the eyes. Beautiful backgrounds are revealed as you play. Shinro puzzles are fun logic puzzles in the tradition of Sudoku and Minesweeper. Shinro Mines will tease and tantalize your brain as you logically solve the ingenious puzzles. Guessing is not required.”
Crypto Cupid: Price: $1.99
“Crypto Cupid is a game of logic with a romantic twist. But mostly a game of logic. The goal is to mend all the broken hearts. Your score starts as a negative number and 0 (zero) is the ideal solution. How close can you come! However, when you mend one heart it affects the hearts nearby. So you have to carefully plan your changes. For the ideal solution you need touch any particular heart but once. Sometimes to mend one heart you need to break another. And sometimes you need to break a heart to mend those around it. As with all of the Cryptocybernetics, LLC. games the play is educational and stimulating. Play Crypto Cupid and flex your logical thinking. There are two cheat modes, one useful before any moves have played and one useful at the end-game. We won’t tell but they’re there for you to find. And they are most useful for learning how to solve the puzzle as a reasonable penalty comes with any cheating!”
Atom!: Price: $1.99
“Fast paced atomic powered puzzler! Use your touch screen to move the atoms around the screen, connecting atoms with matching electrons to create molecules. Use skill and strategy to create the largest molecules you can for the biggest score bonus! But beware! Don’t let too many atoms build up on screen or you’ll lose a life! Take on the challenge and enter your name on the internet score table!”
Santa’s Memory Tuner—The Christmas Picture Match Game: Price: $0.99
“How does Santa remember who has been naughty or nice? By tuning his memory with our game! Christmas Picture Match is a simple game to allow you to pass the time away on your iPhone or iPod. Simply match the pictures of famous Christmas icons like Santa, Rudolph, Frosty along with the symbols of Christmas like gift bags, candy canes, wreaths, Christmas trees, and cookies. Complete ten rounds and you win the game.”
Racing
Mars Explorer: Price: $2.99
“Wouldn’t it be fun if you could carry around your own fantastical world - complete with futuristic vehicles equipped for high speed exploration and precision aerobatic flight - in your pocket? Well, now you can. The sequel to an award winning game for desktop computers, Mars Explorer for iPhone utilizes cutting edge 3D technology to bring you an “out of this world” exploration experience on your iPhone or iPod touch. In Mars Explorer - there are no complicated objectives, extraneous story lines, powerups, timers, antagonists, slowly dwindling life meters, or locked areas that you aren’t important enough to access. Mars Explorer has a fresh approach to fun: it puts you in command of your own high performance vehicles, “out for a spin” over incredible extraterrestrial terrain - unrestricted by any guidelines that dictate how you amuse yourself.”
Role Playing
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Simulation
Flatulence: Price: $0.99
“Flatulence turns your iPhone into a mobile whoopee cushion. Eight high quality fart sounds are sure to have you rolling. Flatulence is great for those quiet times in meetings. Use it to get out of date that isn’t going so well for you. Flatulence is sure to keep you and your friends laughing. You can fine tune and select your sound or choose random if you are feeling on the wild side.”
Spray!: Price: $0.99
“Shake before use! The first ever can of spray paint, deodorant and insect exterminator… for the iPhone.”
iPingpong 3D: Price: $0.99
“The definitive Table Tennis experience is finally here! Millions of players have enjoyed this game online and finally the iPhone has the ultimate finger flicking game in Octane Technologies iPingpong 3D. Built on a powerful, home grown 3D engine that churns out 50+ frames per second, this is one smooth ride! Featuring smashes, cuts and snicks, this game will have your fingers dancing all over the screen versus some of the funniest named opponents on the App Store! Slide your finger anywhere on screen to control the paddle and remember, timing is everything! Featuring a comprehensive visual Help section and three addictive game modes for endless fun. Play through the Tournament and take on the full field of players to improve your rank and star rating, or play a Quick Match against an opponent of your choice. New to the sport? No problem, launch Practice mode to get used to the controls and before you know it, your opponents will be decimated with powerful smashes and deft placement.”
Snowdome: Price: $.099
“Shake this beautiful snow globe and watch its flakes swirl realistically in three dimensions. A winter wonderland in the palm of your hand!”
Virtual Kangaroo: Price: $0.99
“Take care of your virtual kangaroo. You can clean him, train him, feed him, and make him study, amongst other things. He can die if you let him starve or grow sick if you leave him alone for too long.”
Flying Aces: Price: $7.99
“Flying Aces is the first true dogfight Combat Flight Simulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Sit in the cockpit of an F-15 Eagle flying over the Persian Gulf, you will fly head to head against enemy warplanes and gain rank by shooting down as many planes as possible.”
Crazy Hotdogs: Price: $4.99
“Grill your way to success in the hotdog business! In Crazy Hotdogs, an unemployed young man is challenged by a mysterious stranger to earn $100,000 by selling hotdogs. Help him as he embarks on his exciting journey of cooking and selling hotdogs and discovers who issued the challenge and why. Use the deluxe grill to cook a variety of gourmet sausages and satisfy 10 quirky customers with well-made hotdogs. If you’re eager to find out the truth behind the mysterious challenge-issuing stranger, try Mission Mode. And if you want to play the game forever, Free Mode is the way to go!”
Sports
“Age of Curling brings the world-famous sport to your iPhone! Throw, curl and sweep in gorgeous realtime 3D graphics using intuitive touch controls. Age of Curling takes you through different epochs and places. Venues range from a 1920 factory building to a modern olympic stadium. No matter if you play a quick game or a full match, strategic challenges and competitive fun are guaranteed!”
Ice Skating Quiz: Price: $0.99
“Think you know your skating trivia? This is a fun quiz for all skate fans to test their knowledge of their favorite winter sport!”
Strategy
Orions: Legend Of Wizards: Price: $1.99
“Orions: Legend of Wizards is a unique fantasy cards strategy game taking place in a world of Orions - magical islands, floating in space. Battle Orion Lords, build-up your cities, gather cards and spells in one epic game you have never seen before. Awarded by Pocket PC Magazine as Best Strategy Game 2007 is now on your iPhone, greatly improved by the way. Meet Dragons, Liches, Demons, Dark Lords, Centaurs, Vampires, Dryads, Elementals, and other legendary wizards and creatures!”
Trivia
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: Price: $4.99
“All New Millionaire, All New Rules Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for the iPhone and iPod Touch shakes-up the hot seat with two new lifelines and a dramatic new countdown clock. Based on the updated show rules, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire for the iPhone and iPod Touch brings a new intensity to the franchise, but with the classic Millionaire charm we all know by heart.”
Word
Alpha Blocks: Brain Freeze: Price: $0.99
“Having played too many static word games we decided a new type of word game was needed. First we made it fun, threw in a little challenge, and topped it off with beautiful art. We hope you enjoy! Create words from letters arranged in columns. You will gain time for each letter submitted, but a wrong answer causes a new row to appear at the bottom. Keep a balance between time and space while going for longer words to get larger point bonuses.”
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