Arcade games are the first sources of 1970s kids entertainment and the following 20 years.
Later in the 1990s, arcade games saw a decline but today the devices are allowing you to play arcade games on your Iphone or iPad.
Here you can find some of the best arcade games to spend time on. You will find arcade games for iPhone and iPad.
Also, if you are a 1990s kid, you will remember the feeling while playing video games, electro-mechanical games, pinball machines, merchandisers and redemption games.
Candy Crush Saga
This has become a household name as you must have received at least hundred requests on your Facebook profile to play this game with your friends. The game takes you through wonderlands, mysterious places and meeting deliciously kookie characters.
Challenge your friends to score higher than you; the game is absolutely free to play. You can switch off the payment feature if you are asked to buy in-game items like extra moves or lives.
Temple Run
Temple Run is a favorite among kids. It is one of the most exciting running games on the App Store. Test your running skills while you are racing down temple walls and steep cliffs. During your run, you will find some obstacles which can be avoided with the swipe.
Buy power-ups by collecting coins and see how far you can go. Temple Run is popular as the best endless running game in the App Store. Enjoy the fast and frenzied iPhone experience.
Subway Surfers
Even the kids would love to play Subway Surfers on iPhone. Run as fast as you can and save yourself from the fast coming trains – this is the simple way to play this game on your iPhone and iPad. On your run, collect coins and other cool stuff to increase your score.
If you get Shoes on the way, it will be great fun to jump over the trains and other obstacles. Hoverboard Surfing is especially loved by kids.
Angry Birds
Arguably one of the best games for kids and adults alike to keep them busy. Angry Birds is a game that has around ten different variants – Angry Birds (Paid), Angry Birds Go!, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Star Wars Free, Angry Birds Star Wars II, Angry Birds Space, Angry Birds Friends, Angry Birds Star Wars, Angry Birds POP! – Bubble Shooter, Angry Birds Seasons, etc.
In this free version, the story is about taking revenge on the green pigs who steal the Birds’ eggs. You will have 175 unlockable levels to unleash the destructive power of the Angry Birds.
Hill Climb Racing
Hill Climbing Racing presents eye-soothing background and colors that will capture your attention. It is about a young uphill racer, who is on a journey that takes him to a bumpy ride.
Defying the laws of physics, our racer Newton Bill will conquer the highest hills up on the moon. During the steep climbing of hills, you will face many challenges; if you can tackle the challenges, you will get bonuses and coins to upgrade your car and reach even higher distances.
Fruit Ninja
If the slicing fruit is your favourite pastime, Fruit Ninja is your game for sure. Go further and explore the nuances of three different modes like Classic, Zen, and Arcade; the last one is quite popular among users.
Want to swing your blades for multiple times? Go for the multi-slice Pomegranate or you can use power-ups and special bananas to the full effect. Unleash your power to swing your blade and enjoy Fruit Ninja!
Toy Blast
Toy Blast can also be slotted into puzzle game as the user has to match two or more blocks of the same color to remove the level and collect the stuck toys. However, this is not as easy as it sounds because your moves are limited.
The game can be addictive once you use your talent to solve puzzles. Just bust the blocks and enjoy this colourful adventure. You don’t have to crush candies, break diamonds, crunch cookies or farm.
Bowling King
This one is the best multiplayer bowling game that can be played on The Internet – it could be the only disadvantage of Bowling King. The game features intuitive tap and swipe control and beautiful bowling alleys from Las Vegas, New York, Sydney, Paris and other cities.
Display your class with more than 60 bowling balls, 27 pins, and lanes. While playing with your friends, you can win millions of chips; moreover, you can bowl together with your friends from anywhere, anytime.
Soccer Stars
Indulge in online table soccer matches all over the world! Soccer Stars boasts a simple gameplay and excellent physics to boost your competitive style. You can challenge your competitors in different tiers from different countries.
You can also play the game against your friends. You will be required to log in with your Facebook account to challenge your friends. If you don’t have internet access, you can play offline with your friend on the same device.
Jetpack Joyride
Jetpack Joyride is an award-winning game from Fruit Ninja. The game is now updated to support retina display of your new iPad. Jetpack Joyride takes you to a secret laboratory of evildoers who are developing a jetpack.
And the hero Barry Steakfries secretly enters the lab to take that jetpack. Once Barry gets hold of the jetpack, touch the screen to ascend and leave to descend. Save him from bullets, bubbles, rainbows and lasers.
Hook Worlds
Players try to survive as long as possible across four game modes, using grappling hooks as transportation. The game modes, along with unlockable hats to customize your character, complement the simply fun swinging gameplay.
Canabalt
This endless runner game, initially popularized on Flash before being introduced on iOS, is well-known for its perfectly-tuned gameplay. Do you try to survive when the game accelerates to high speeds, increasing the possibility that an ill-placed window or a sudden obstacle dooms you to fail?
Or, do you slow it down by cleverly utilizing the boxes in your path? The tradeoff requires more than reflexes, but strategic brainpower too.
The Blocks Comet
While playing Tetris, have you ever imagined you were jumping over the blocks that constantly descended down, down, down? Well, that’s what this game is!
Plus, enjoy a bonus mode that pays homage to handheld games of the past, and all the pixel art you can handle.
Whale Trail
This is one of the most pleasant endless runner games around. The music and graphics create a happy and charming world. The game is easy to play: Just hold down on the screen to fly upward and loop-de-loop.
Hitting bad cloud obstacles doesn’t mean game over, but it does reduce your score multiplier, so fly carefully and score as many points as possible!
Bit Pilot
Players try to survive while being bombarded by asteroids. A unique dual-swipe control system works great for trying to precisely navigate the asteroid menace.
The game boasts a rocking chiptune soundtrack, unlocks rewards accumulated throughout the game, and takes total advantage of the high-resolution retina display and iPad screens.
Super Crossfire
Fans of Galaga, Space Invaders, and other retro shoot-em-ups will love this game too. Players flip between both sides of the battlefield in order to avoid damage, and to attack vulnerable enemies. Despite new elements and modern twists, the game still features old-school shooting fun.
Forever Drive
Speed along neon-colored tracks in this endless racing game, while trying to unlock new cars and designs. All the tracks in the game are user-generated, so prepare for tracks with devilish twists and turns and amazing futuristic city scenery.
Pac-Man Championship Edition
This isn’t quite the Pac-Man you know and love. The basics are the same: Run around a maze and collect power pellets to eat ghosts. However, the maze constantly warps with each fruit that you eat, leaving players wildly attempting to survive!
Thousand Heroes
Formerly entitled 1000 Heroz, this running game presents a new challenge each day: courses fraught with new perils and new leaderboards to conquer. Part of the fun is the ability to join custom leagues and compete with friends.
Penarium
Help a character move across a dangerous circus arenas. Move on the platforms, jump over gaps and avoid traps. Get to the exit and don’t let the main hero die in a sinister circus.
Die with glory
Help a viking to go to his forefather to Valhalla. Travel across incredible locations together with a flying skull. Fight against monsters, destroy fortresses, make friends. Interact with surrounding objects and don’t let the hero die.
Toca life: Hospital
Take part in events happening at a big medical center. Cure patients, take care of them, rescue lives and complete other interesting missions. Apply modern equipment to make a diagnosis. Find a secret laboratory in the department.
Lanota
Start an exciting adventure across a magic world together with two courageous heroes. Explore local territories and find a rare magic element thanks to which you can recover the planet after natural disasters. Bring bright colors to dull locations.
Dragon’s Lair
Dragon’s Lair was another huge hit at the arcade. For its time, it had stunning graphics, and the embedded humor in the game made it a blast to play. But what really kept kids like me pouring quarters into it was the addicting difficulty of the game.
Like most games of that era, it was built around seeing how far you could get and how long you could play, but unlike games that racked up a score, Dragon’s Lair pushed you along because you wanted to see what would happen next.
The only downside of this HD version is the $4.99 price tag, which is a little steep for any classic arcade game ported to the iPad.
Street Fighter II Collection
When I was a kid, people lined up to play Karate Champ. It was the first fighting game to feature martial arts, and it was always a popular game. But it was Street Fighter that really set the mold for all fighting games to come and paved the way for classics like Mortal Kombat.
This collection includes the original Street Fighter II, the Champion Edition and Hyper Fighting, which is Champion Edition on steroids.
Double Dragon Trilogy
Talk about a blast from the past! Double Dragon did a double whammy on arcades in the 80s. Not only did it take the side-scroller to the next level, it revolutionized the idea of co-op game play.
Mostly, you had a choice between playing a fighting game or similar player-vs-player game or taking turns trying to hit the high score in Donkey Kong, but with Double Dragon, you got to team up with your best friend and beat the crap out of people.
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat is a game that needs no introduction. There are few games that have become so popular and are so recognizable. But despite its popularity in the arcades, the original port of this game to the iPad wouldn’t make it on this list.
It was a tad overpriced and had too many glitches, especially with unwieldy controls. In some games, you can work around bad controls, but in a game like Mortal Kombat, that’s impossible. Luckily, EA has patched it since its release, with the latest patches fixing a lot of the initial problems.
They’ve also reduced the price, making this one a good download for any fan of the series.
Midway Arcade
The Midway Arcade is the only arcade developer collection with a price tag, but you do get a nice selection of games for the $1.99. The price tag includes Spy Hunter, Rampage, Joust and Defender among several others.
You can also download some game packs, including a fantasy game pack that includes Gauntlet, Gauntlet II and Wizard of Wor. These were all favorites at the arcade, and with the game packs only costing $.99, they are a good deal.
The Namco Arcade
The Namco Arcade contains classics like PAC-MAN, Galaga and Xevious. The game features two ways to play: buy the game machine to play all you like or buy coins. Unfortunately, you only get 10 coins for a dollar, so that quickly becomes too expensive.
And the game machines are usually $2.99 , so of all the game collections, this one is the most expensive. Still, with the full-fledged Galaga game no longer working with iOS 7, this is the only way to play this particular classic.
Most of the games on this list support the iCade.
Activision Anthology
I’ve listed Activision Anthology last not because it is the worse app on this list, but because it really doesn’t meet the ‘arcade’ criteria. The Activision compilation is of games for the Atari 2600, which is close enough that I include it here.
Certainly, anyone interested in reliving their arcade past will get a kick out of getting some 2600 games as well. The anthology includes Kaboom! for free and has other activision classics like Decathlon, River Raid and (of course) Pitfall. You can buy game packs for $2.99 or the entire collection for $6.99.
Activision Anthology is compatible with iCade.
Growing up in the 80s, I have fond memories of dimly lit arcades, incessantly feeding quarters with reckless abandon. When you took control of a machine, you would line up your quarters, letting others know you’d be there a while.
I must have dropped hundreds of dollars over the course of a few years, all worth it. Nothing can bring back the excitement of first playing Space Invaders, my absolute first experience with an arcade game, but you can relive those moments on the iPhone. There are others, but these are the best 8 classic arcade games from the 80s for iPhone.
SPACE INVADERS
Originally manufactured by Taito and picked up in the U.S. by Midway, Space Invaders was basic, yet incredibly addictive. As you lay waste to the invading aliens, they would increase their march, reinforced by the game sounds and your heartbeat.
And when that spaceship would fly across the top, you’d forget about any strategy, as you sent as a stream of bullets trying to blow the mystery ship out of the sky. Now you can strap yourself to the laser cannons and fight this battle again, this time on your iPhone.
PACMAN
No one ever admits to liking PacMan in the same way they don’t admit to wearing parachute pants. Admit it friend, you did both and loved it. Chomp on those pellits, grab fruit where you can eat those ghosts while they are weak.
POLE POSITION REMIX
Prepare to qualify! How many times have you heard that echo into the corridors of the mall? In a remixed version of Pole Position, you race to glory using the tilt wheel controls of your iPhone.
Bring yourself back to 1983 with the game that set records for being the most-successful game of that year. Crank up Down Under from Men at Work and race to the winner’s circle.
FROGGER
Want to feel old? Frogger just celebrated its 29th brirthday. Still, after all these years, this frog hasn’t learned that busy streets might not be the best thing for an amphibian.
You can choose from the classics or opt for new modes that include turbo, night time inferno (in-app purchase required). Feel up to the task of navigating your frog past cars and trucks.
You are just one space ship, fighting a legion of ships. As you do battle, they send kamakaze fighters down forcing you to go one on one. Galaga sprung onto the arcade scene in 1981, developed by Namco.
Despite making it to the list, I cannot recommend buying this one, at least not yet. While it checks most of the boxes (awesome, retro, awesome), the developers have yet to update it for iOS 7.
So if you are rolling with a retro iPhone circa iOS 6, then go get yourself some Galaga. If not, just add this one to your wishlist and hope the developer gets on the ball. Despite this major oversight, Galaga was simply too important of a game to not make this list.
Atari’s Greatest Hits
Atari’s Greatest Hits features a collection of some of their best classics, like Tempest, Asteroids and Centipede. It also includes their library of Atari 2600 titles. Controls aren’t too bad, and the games are emulated pretty well.
The token system is pretty stupid, but if you spend $10 you’ll get all 100 games available to play anytime you want. Tokens? We don’t need no stinkin’ tokens.
Karate Champ
Oh, it’s so good … it’s sooooooo good. The original one-on-one karate game was a huge hit in arcades and it’s been faithfully ported over to iOS. It looks great on your iPhone, but wait until you see the iPad version.
Beautiful crisp graphics and responsive touch controls make every match just as intense and stressful as they were in the arcade. Now if only I could master that darn jump kick, I might actually get past the fifth stage.
Pinball Arcade
Surprised by my #1 pick? Who said the best retro arcade game had to be an arcade cabinet game? Pinball was just as incredible an experience as arcade games, and FarSight Studios has gone above and beyond with their faithful ports of Funhouse, Bride of Pinbot, Medieval Madness, Monster Bash and more.
New tables are being added every month, so the game is constantly being updated with the pinball classics you grew up playing. They even secured enough Kickstarter funds to get the rights to adapt the heralded pin The Twilight Zone.
If you’re an arcade junkie, you owe it to yourself to download Pinball Arcade. Believe me, you won’t be disappointed.
Death road to Canada
Become a leader of a group of survived under the conditions of zombie apocalypse. Get from Florida to Canada. Get food, resources and weapons to fight against walking dead and enemy bandits.
Look for the survived and add them to your squad. Destroy as many zombies as you can and try to survive!
Vive le Roi
Rescue the king of France from execution. Move across dangerous locations guarded by watchful guards. Penetrate the castle, remain unnoticed and rescue the king from execution. Pick up useful objects which will distract soldiers.
Mujo
Place tiles on the playing field in the best order to defeat monsters of Ancient Greek mythology. You will face Cyclop, Minotaur and other monsters. Join as many tiles with swords as possible to deliver maximum damage to beasts.
Ancient Greek gods and heroes will help you in the battle with the help of mighty power-ups.
Bethesda pinball
Play pinball on original pinball tables. Return the ball and score points. Fight against dragons, mutants and other beasts.
Each challenge will bring you bonuses and upgrades. Compete with the participants from all over the world and demonstrate best high score results.
Euclidean lands
Is an exciting journey across a hexangular world. Rotate the levels to move the main character forward. Help the warrior cope with villains wearing black overcoats. Think over every move of yours carefully in order to move and avoid attacks of enemies. Use teleports, tiles and other objects to reach the destination.
Ghosts’n goblins mobile
Adventures of a brave knight in a pixel world. Take the hero across dark forests, underground tunnels and gloomy castles full of monsters, ghosts and other evil spirits.
Move on the platforms, jump, dodge tricky traps and destroy opponents. Get to the den of villains and rescue the stolen princess.
Ellie and Max
Play as a girl whose name is Ellie and her faithful dog Max. They got into a unique cubic world by chance. Help the characters overcome moving platforms, unsteady grounds and other geometrical figures.
Turn locations and lay new ways. Use the found switches and useful objects. Take the characters home!
Cosmic express
Travel across endless cosmic spaces. Your task is to create routes along which an express will move from one galaxy station to another and pick up aliens. Lay rails in the best way, avoid obstacles on the way. Every passenger must get home!
Ball transformer 2
Roll a ball across tropical jungles and lands of Arctic. Avoid various traps and overcome numerous obstacles. Take the ball to the finish on each of the levels.
You will face moving platforms, swaying pendulums, sharp thorns, water barriers and other dangers on your way. To overcome obstacles use an original feature of the ball – it can become wooden, metal or paper.
Kingdom: New lands
Build your own pixel kingdom. Expand and fortify your territories and defend citizens from enemies. Use resources in the best way, build defense towers and other constructions.
Ride your horse and discover new lands. Be careful because many dangers are waiting for you on the way!
Summary:
Kids today would likely thumb their nose at this list and rightfully so. They are growing up games like Infinity Blade. While some of these developers have certainly used their historic cache to cash in, these apps have a place in arcade gaming history.
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