Official Apple Games Thread

**Detour** · 11 Feb 2012, 12:27 AM

Sales this weekend, my bold = worth a look:

Crescent Moon

Aralon: Sword and Shadow - $6.99 → $2.99
Gears - $2.99 → 99¢
Pocket RPG iPhone Edition - $2.99 → 99¢
Evertales - $2.99 → 99¢
Siegecraft - $2.99 → 99¢
Ravensword: The Fallen King - $2.99 → 99¢

Godzilab

iBlast Moki - $2.99 → FREE
iBlast Moki HD - $4.99 → 99¢
iBlast Moki 2 - $2.99 → 99¢
iBlast Moki 2 HD - $4.99 → $2.99
Stardunk Gold - $1.99 → FREE

Telltale Games

Back to the Future Ep 1 HD - $6.99 → FREE
Back to the Future Ep 2 HD - $6.99 → $2.99
Back to the Future Ep 3 HD - $6.99 → $2.99
Back to the Future Ep 4 HD - $6.99 → $2.99
Back to the Future Ep 5 HD - $6.99 → $2.99
Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space Ep 1 - $6.99 → $4.99

Konami

Ash II: Shadows (Silver Edition) - $2.99 → 99¢
Ash II: Shadows (Gold Edition) - $4.99 → $2.99

Sega

Sonic CD - $4.99 → $2.99
Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode I - $3.99 → $1.99
Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode I HD - $4.99 → $2.99
Super Monkey Ball - $2.99 → 99¢
Super Monkey Ball 2 - $2.99 → 99¢
Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition - $2.99 → 99¢

Miscellaneous

Mad Chef - 99¢ → FREE
Ticket to Ride Pocket - $1.99 → FREE
Anthill - $1.99 → FREE
Time of Heroes - $2.99 → 99¢
Rebuild - $2.99 → 99¢
Order & Chaos Online - $6.99 → 99¢
Dodonpachi Resurrection - $7.99 → $5.99
Containment: The Zombie Puzzler - $4.99 → $2.99
AWESOME Land - $1.99 → 99¢
Cut the Buttons - 99¢ → FREE
Cut the Buttons HD - $1.99 → 99¢

**Calliander** · 11 Feb 2012, 12:44 AM

Some friends of mine made a game.

Four Hats

It's 99¢. I think it's pretty fun. Anyone willing to give it a shot and see if I'm just blinded by friendship?

**Detour** · 11 Feb 2012, 12:54 AM

Downloading it now

**DirtySouth** · 11 Feb 2012, 10:43 AM

I downloaded Pinball Arcade on the iPhone (I'm sure everyone figured I would be the first on the forum to do so).

As expected, it's pretty much an exact replica of the console version with a few more options.

One odd caveat: you'd think that pinball machines being "vertical" as the player sees it, it would be best played with the iphone in portrait orientation, but I found it awkward due to your fingers having to be so close together at the bottom of the screen. I found it hard to aim. Landscape mode was much easier to play, although there's less screen real estate.

**Brianvgplayer** · 13 Feb 2012, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by DirtySouth

I downloaded Pinball Arcade on the iPhone (I'm sure everyone figured I would be the first on the forum to do so).

As expected, it's pretty much an exact replica of the console version with a few more options.

I got this recently too, and I love it, aside from Ripley's Believe it or Not. I found the physics to be an improvement over Williams PHOF. Ball speed seems to have been improved. Black Hole is a huge improvement over its PS2 Gottlieb PHOF counterpart. I receommend holding off on Ripley's, unless you have an iPhone 4 S or iPad 2. It's very unstable on iPad 1 and, from what I read on The Pinball Arcade Facebook page, it sounds like iPod Touch 4 and iPhone 4 have the same issues. The ball physics often freak out on Ripley's Believe it or Not and the framerate seems unstable, as well.

**kingoffighters** · 13 Feb 2012, 09:31 PM

I like Pinball Arcade, not sure about the other tables, but it looks and plays great.

**DirtySouth** · 14 Feb 2012, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by Brianvgplayer

I got this recently too, and I love it, aside from Ripley's Believe it or Not. I found the physics to be an improvement over Williams PHOF. Ball speed seems to have been improved. Black Hole is a huge improvement over its PS2 Gottlieb PHOF counterpart. I receommend holding off on Ripley's, unless you have an iPhone 4 S or iPad 2. It's very unstable on iPad 1 and, from what I read on The Pinball Arcade Facebook page, it sounds like iPod Touch 4 and iPhone 4 have the same issues. The ball physics often freak out on Ripley's Believe it or Not and the framerate seems unstable, as well.

This may not be the same thing, but on the PinMAME project, you needed a pretty beefy CPU to play some of the newer Stern tables, as the sound hardware is resource intensive. I haven't used PinMAME in ages, and I'm not sure Pinball Arcade is running into the same emulation problems with the Stern Whitestar board, but there could be correlation. A lot of the PinMAME coders got around that by converting all the sounds to samples, but those sounded horrible.