The old people of the iPhone world breathed a sigh of relief when Manomio’s celebrated (though troubled) C64 emulator finally made its way back to the App Store – this time to stay. But it’s version 1.2 that we’re all excited about, as it’ll allow in-app purchases of more classic 8-bit games. Manomio has been […]
If you’re a child of 80’s video games like me, few games likely bring back more traumatic memories of horrifying difficulty than Ghosts ‘n Goblins. While the game was originally released in arcades in 1985, it wasn’t until 1986 that Ghosts ‘n Goblins cursed the NES with its presence and quickly grew in fame as […]
Rake in Grass recently released their latest iPhone game Undercroft, an old-school styled turn based RPG. The game has been receiving only positive comments in the release thread. The developer describes the game: Undercroft is a dazzling, epic adventure set in a fantasy world full of magic and monsters. It combines the atmosphere of classic […]
Piyo Block is a fun, stylish ‘match 3’ game with a pixel style look and feel which differentiates it from its competitors. The premise of the game is simple; swap adjacent blocks, which in this case are little chirping bird blocks, to match three or more of the same color blocks to make them disappear. […]
Here are a couple of retro-inspired games which may be of interest to some of our readers. iPlutoid Lazrhog Games claims to have created a “new genre” of 3D shooter with Plutoid and they may be right. Readers may remember Lazrhog as one of the early jailbreak developers who originally ported Noiz2sa to the iPhone. […]