This is a tough one, since I’ve deleted most of these games. But fortunately, since Apple keeps track of all of your previously purchased items (so you can re-download them for free), it’s easy enough to find them again.
Castlevania: Puzzle of the Night
Oregon Trail
10. Retro reimagined: Space Out, 1-bit Ninja, Pizza Boy
9. Scrabble
8. Intellivision Lives
7. Atari’s Greatest Hits
6. Shanghai Mahjong
5. Chaos Rings/Chaos Rings ?
4. Astronut
3. iBomber Defense
2. Archetype
1. Angry Birds
10. Strategery
9. Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man
8. Ramp Champ
7. Pinball Arcade
6. Another World
5. Real Racing 2
4. Fieldrunners
3. Plants vs. Zombies
2. Solebon Solitaire
1. Radiant
My all-time favorite video games (Atari era: Yars’ Revenge, H.E.R.O.; Metroid Prime, Zelda Minish Cap, New Super Mario Bros., Portal, Burnout series, Age of Empires series)
Inexpensive games
Always in your pocket
All games are directly on the system; no cartridges, cards or discs
Touch controls are getting much better and lead to some inventive gameplay
Good technical capabilities
Huge selection
Most of the games are crap (but that’s the case with any system)
Low average price means most games are targeted at that price
In-app purchase and social gaming models lead to bad gameplay
A lot of games lack polish, even from the “big” game companies
Hard to find good games
I linked to this on Twitter this morning, but it’s cool enough (and, dare I say, to the extent that Star Wars can be considered “important,” important enough) to link to here as well, just so it doesn’t vanish into the social networking ether.
Rod Hilton has devised an ingenious viewing order for the complete Star Wars saga. OK, actually not the complete saga, but what could come to be viewed as the definitive saga. He makes a compelling case for shuffling up the order a bit, and for removing The Phantom Menace entirely.
The ultimate sequence he devises is as follows:
I’ll leave it to Hilton to explain in detail how he arrived at this solution, along with its (mostly) pros and (few, minor) cons. The whole post is definitely worth reading and I look forward to watching the “complete” saga in this order soon.