5 iPhone Game Apps You Need to Buy
September 29, 2011, By Michael O. Varhola 0 comments
If there is one thing technology has accomplished over the past three or four decades, it has been to make the devices electronic games can be played on smaller, more sophisticated and immeasurably more versatile. Thirty years ago, you could go to an arcade and play now-primitive games like Galaga, Space Invaders, and Centipede on a console the size of a refrigerator. Starting about 20 years ago you could play games on portable devices like the Gameboy. Those were dedicated, single-purpose devices, of course, and the most sophisticated games required travelling to an arcade or staying home on a computer to play.
Today, however, a wide and growing variety of increasingly sophisticated games are available for multipurpose portable devices like smart phones, among which the Apple iPhone is one of the most popular. In a previous article I looked at popular games to play on the Android. To give equal time, I've rounded up a handful for those people who have an iPhone.
“The market for games on that platform is incredible,” says Josh Mayo of Jocama Development LLC, which develops applications for iPhones. “There are so many games you will probably never play them all in one lifetime.”
Here's a sampling of the most fun and interesting of those games (along with the companies that released them) so that if you can't play all the games in your lifetime, at least you can play some of the best.
geoDefense Swarm (Critical Thought Games): This is a “tower defense” variant but, according to Mayo, “instead of following a strict path like on the regular GeoDefense game, Swarm requires you to basically build your own path, which the enemies then traverse and get destroyed by your various choices of weaponry.”
Flight Control (Firemint): This bestselling game allows a player to assume the role of an air traffic controller at an airport and to help jets, small aircraft and helicopters safely land. “As a quick, clean, cheap, and clever casual game, Flight Control is pretty much without equal,” wrote Spanner Spencer for Pocket Gamer. “[It] is one of those essential games that you’ll continually return to and will remain on your iPhone forever.”
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