Tag Archives: side scroller

Zombieville USA for iPhone updated to 1.6: survivors, vehicles, and auto rotation

by on May 15th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Aside from the nifty extras like finding survivor AI in houses or appropriating vehicles to help butcher the undead, Zombieville USA (review here) has finally included accelerometer support so that you can flip the screen’s orientation. This is a big deal for the game, since I find it much easier …

Chop Chop Runner leaps onto the iPhone App Store

by on March 22nd, 2010 at 3:38 pm

I’ll have a review coming soon enough, but here is what Chop Chop Runner is all about (in a ninja nutshell): tapping to jump, tapping to attack, and tapping to retry after you fail to execute one of the first two taps properly. If that sounds a bit like Canabalt, …

Review: Super Turbo Action Pig for Oinkphone (I mean iPhone)

by on March 17th, 2010 at 12:25 pm

[Update: Version 1.1 has been released and addresses some of the issues I pointed out in this review, details here] The most complex part of Super Turbo Action Pig is its name. Behind all of those sensational adjectives, however, lies is a simple game about a pig flying through a …

Like iPhone games? Check out Canabalt. Just do it.

by on October 5th, 2009 at 9:42 am

If the cavalcade of compliments on the Canabalt website don’t get you just a little excited about the game, then the full game preview that’s right on the game’s website will. Here was my experience of the game this morning, not ten minutes ago: John Gruber link? Click. Flash Demo? …