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This week has been a momentous one for the iPhone, what with the release of the feature-rich iPhone OS 3.0 and the debut of the iPhone 3G S hardware.
Perhaps hoping that Apple would be too busy with managing this week’s events to notice, some clever scoundrels have attempted to slip a handful of shameless game clones into the App Store’s library.
No one was fooled.
First up is Blocks Drop, the product of a genius scientist from the year 2011 who invented a time machine and traveled to the distant past. The plan: 1) invent the falling block puzzler, 2) earn billions of dollars, 3) get a girlfriend. He only missed the mark by a couple of decades or so.
Developer Steven Mitchev finally figured out the key element lacking in tacky games like Arkanoid: class. Classy Bricks ditches the profanity and “your mom” jokes that laced Taito’s brick-breaking classic and adds tasteful Photoshop backgrounds, for a more refined experience.
iJoust is a clone of something, but I’m having trouble remembering the name. This one’s worth it for the unusually lucid App Store comments alone: “Under no circumstances should anyone ever download this game.” Damn.
The same guy who did iJoust also proudly presents iPunchOut, which isn’t really a clone of Nintendo’s game, but still, come on. The name PunchOut brings to mind exactly one gaming franchise, and this will never change. You might as well invent a new superhero named “iBatman,” or write a song called “iFat Bottomed Girls.”
iBreakWall has some good ideas, but frankly, I think it could use a little more class.
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