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Seemingly unaware of Nintendo’s notoriously fierce protection of its intellectual property, Mobile 1UP has taken upon itself the task of porting the company’s Game & Watch library to the iPhone. Amazingly, they don’t seem to have been stopped so far — Mobile 1UP’s latest effort, a port of Helmet, joins a Game & Watch lineup that has been expanding since November, and now features five titles in all.
GW Helmet is available as a free download, and provides an accurate adaptation of the classic LCD title. It’s not like the controls are hard to nail down — you’ll take single steps to the left and to the right as you dodge falling objects — but the graphics and sound effects are spot-on as well.
Also available are GW Octopus, GW Fire, GW Parachute, and (my personal favorite) GW Chef, at a cost of $1.99 each. All are regularly updated with new features and improvements, too. Give Helmet a shot, if you’re interested — potential copyright infringement aside, the attention to detail is impressive.
[...] joke”) comes this bit of news exclusively obtained by geek.com. Mobile 1UP, the makers of iPhone Game & Watch clones such as GW Octopus, GW Helmet, GW Fire, and GW Chef, have received a cease and desist order from [...]