It’s all about the iTouch these days. The thing that makes it so easy to finish games on this is the power button. Emulators have save states, but I can simply hit power and the game pauses right where I left it. Once I realized that, I stopped dumping money into consoles and started putting money into this. Games are awfully cheap on the iTouch.
Also: Isaac is a poor sleeper. Sometimes I find it works better if I rock him in the rocking chair for a few minutes and wait until he stops twitching before I put him in the crib. Sometimes that takes up to 20 minutes. I usually take the iTouch to read or to game. Otherwise I’d be bored out of my skull.
Space Miner: Space or Bust is by the same developers who made Ninjatown: Trees of Doom for the DS (the only game that I liked on the DS, by the way). SM:SoB is asteroids meets resource management meets RPG meets witty dialog. Your uncle owns a ore mining company on the ropes, and you are a freshly minted cadet right out of ore mining academy. Mine ore, make as much money as possible, build up your ship, run missions – the whole nine. All told it took me 10 hours to finish. There are several more levels of difficulty and tons of alien technology to collect. Above all, it’s just flat out fun. Unlike GTA:CW, I looked forward to playing this every night after work.
Blades of Fury is a gameloft knock off of Soul Calibur, and a surprisingly competent one at that. Usually priced at $7, I grabbed it at 99c. Arguably, it’s worth the $7 as I was sucked into the story lines. On top of that, it’s simply a *great* fighting game. The controls are responsive, the combos aren’t hard to perform, and graphics are silky smooth. I’ve read that people playing on the iPad and new iPhone4 have complaints about the graphics, but on a lower end device this game just shines.
On a final note, I’ve been worn down by several diamonds in the rough. Dare I say it – I really like the iTouch now. It took a few months, but with apps like Stanza, Fliq Tasks, Note to Self, RiotFX (I’ll save that for another post), Pandora, NPR Music and games like Highborn, Blades of Fury, Tilt to Live, Wesnoth, Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies, and Space Miner I’m actually quite glad that I purchased it. If I had a little patience I could’ve saved a few dollars by buying online (or purchased a 3rd Generation 32GB if I waited a month) but overall, I’m happy with the device.
Note that none of the apps I mentioned are first party. I still maintain that the Apple made apps are steaming piles of crap and absolutely do not fill the purpose for which I bought the device (email and internet surfing). These third party apps and games simply shine and gave me a different reason to enjoy the device.
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Whee! I’m glad you’re finally down with the Touch after all these months.