iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch game recommendations

[DreamcastRIP]

To sound like an old fart (again!),
Back in 2000 and '01 I was playing the sublime Virtua Tennis and Virtua Tennis 2 on my Dreamcast. The former being an arcade coin-op conversion from SEGA's NAOMI arcade board of course. Here I am 11-12 years later playing a non-compromised more advanced sequel of said game with super high-res graphics in the palm of my hand on a glorified mobile phone. That just amazes me. LOVING IT!

Totally agree, so many times i'm amazed that i have Duke Nukem and Doom on my ipod, just those two games alone makes me think 'wow' !! Then of course i have about 150 Speccy games on it as well and its another 'wow' moment. Then when i think about the 500+ games i've got which i love on it (like to dip in and out of a lot !), read graphic novels on my ipod, music, films, download other stuff to my gadget, just a dream !!

Yup! I think what I may have failed to communicate clearly enough just then is how fab I think it is having an enhanced version of a top Dreamcast/NAOMI game to play on my phone these days, i.e. Speccy games are one thing (still very cool, of course!) and PC games such as Doom and Duke Nukem from the early '90s is a great thing too. But playing games stemming from the technically much more advanced Dreamcast that were big name releases in around 2000 (now as Virtua Tennis Challenge, Soul Calibur, etc) simply blows me away!

Sure, I could buy a PS Vita in 2012 to play a latest Virtua Tennis release but my phone already does that... and for only £1.99 no less!

The free access Atari games only remain as such unless they are uninstalled, if you do so and then go to download them then you will have to pay for them. Hence why the error (no iap) came up.

Cheers for that, Grizzly.

[psj3809]

Yeah it's great having some ex Dreamcast games plus Neo geo. also GTA or Max Payne from the PSX1/2 years. Hope vice city comes to ioS soon

[Misery]

Well, finally got my bloody account fixed after AN HOUR OF SCREAMING AT IT. That this happens AT LEAST once a month is beginning to get on my nerves. I swear, Apple hasnt the foggiest damn clue what they're doing when it comes to this bit. My account actually has TWO seperate names now (but only one password), and I'm not sure just HOW that came about. Trying not to think about it too hard.

10000000 is the main one I want to try, will be giving that a go later.....

.....but I did try Blazing Star. ......and deleted it 5 minutes later. I have some 35 or so shmups on here. Every single one of them, and I mean ALL of them, gets this particular thing right..... Blazing Star is the very first to get it wrong, and that thing is.... a lack of auto-fire. On a bloody touchscreen. There's a reason why Cave's shmups have it DEFAULT to being on. Even something like Darius Burst, where there's lots of times when you DONT want to fire, it has a toggle button instead of one that you hit 10 billionty times. Blazing Star though, not even an option.

It's not just the touchscreen though, it's the part where I cannot physically DO it. I cant do it on a controller or a stick either: it's either auto-fire, or the game never, ever gets played. Hitting the button 23405672307930764 times to keep firing in one of these will cause my arm to flare up (and this HURTS. Alot), and it'll stay that way for at least a week, in most cases. Not doing that, not a chance.


A damn shame, too. It's freaking Blazing Star. I'd been looking forward to having that one on here.

Though, when I think about it..... this actually isnt very surprising. The SNK "minis" on PSN have a similar utter lack of effort put into them and can be just as disappointing. Be nice to get better ports of some of those games.

[merman]

Damn you Reverend Stuart Campbell. You recommended Agent Dash on Twitter, and now I'm hooked.

Your other recommendation of Box Cat is also ace and got me thinking about a C64 version...

[Misery]

Well, finally got 10000000, not a bad game. Not as good as I was hoping, but not bad. It unfortunately uses what is probably my most disliked mechanic in any puzzle game, the "you cant move pieces AT ALL unless it makes a match" mechanic. I find games like that tend to feel extremely reliant on luck (even if they arent).

I'll play it every now and then, but Dungeon Raid completely tops it in every way, in my view.


Was still worth the money though.

[PaulEMoz]

I think I'm the only person that hates Dungeon Raid. I simply can't get anywhere on that one.

[PubZombie]

I think I'm the only person that hates Dungeon Raid. I simply can't get anywhere on that one.

+1
Much prefer 10000000

[Misery]

Dungeon Raid isnt for everyone. I suspect it just isnt going to "click" for some people.

In my case, I just REALLY dont like it when pretty much any game of any genre relies too much on luck. I found that Dungeon Raid involves very little luck; proper planning, as well as actually thinking through the situations it throws at you, can defeat the evil RNG when it's being a total snot.

In 10000000 though, that..... doesnt seem to happen whatsoever. The RNG can just END you, and there's not very much you can do about it. I personally get really bored, really fast, with that sort of thing.

10000000 is still pretty good, but the mechanics are simply a bit too mindless for my tastes. I can only play that one in small, short doses.

[psj3809]

Killer Bean
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?p=2380281

Very good ! Came out of nowhere and seems so far to be great. Its FREE, there are coins you can buy from the In-App shop but you dont seem 'forced' to get any coins. I've just bought some so the dev gets some money

So far its really good, have a look of that youtube video in that thread above, looks great!

[Antiriad2097]

Killer Bean.
Very good ! Came out of nowhere and seems so far to be great.

Now this is a surprise. The Killer Bean character is from a demo reel animation way back in 2000:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmInzBRoZnA

It was featured in 3D World magazine round about then.

Should be a perfect fit for a game, it certainly looks the part.

[sscott]

Killer Bean
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?p=2380281

Very good ! Came out of nowhere and seems so far to be great. Its FREE, there are coins you can buy from the In-App shop but you dont seem 'forced' to get any coins. I've just bought some so the dev gets some money

So far its really good, have a look of that youtube video in that thread above, looks great!

Goodness knows how many paid for apps you have now psj, I have 318 and have had enough for the foreseeable future. It feels now like I have ROMs on MAME and I just don't care anymore tbh.

[Mire Mare]

Fans of Hydro Thunder might be interested in Riptide GP from vector Unit. Very similar game play to Hydro Thunder. The game looks very impressive and the tilt controls work very well. Probably my favourite arcade racer on iOS so far.

[DreamcastRIP]

Fans of Hydro Thunder might be interested in Riptide GP from vector Unit. Very similar game play to Hydro Thunder. The game looks very impressive and the tilt controls work very well. Probably my favourite arcade racer on iOS so far.

I downloaded that game the previous time it was available for free. Some lovely graphics and reasonably good tilt controls, imho. Was impressed with the option to increase/decrease the complexity of the graphics so to maximise the frame rate depending on which iThing one has - not a feature unique to this game but nice to see all the same. As for the game itself, I thought it quite competent but without the same degree of excitement/thrills and spills of Hydro Thunder. Damn good for free though!

[psj3809]

Well its weds which means the NZ games have been announced, nothing major apart from the revamped Pitfall..

http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=147513

Was looking forward to this but looking at it it looks the usual Temple Run clone which is the current craze.

Really enjoying Killer Bean which came out yesterday and also Trigger Fist which is a really good third person multiplayer shoot em up, lots of bots in the games at the moment but with more people buying it it should get even better. To be fair the bots are very good.

http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=147439

[SoupDragon]

I like the Dreamcast Collectors app, eventhough they've missed Shenmue II. As for games, I just downloaded Fix It Felix Jr while its free. Wonderful 8-bit graphics and sounds