Apple Promotes App Store's One Year Anniversary
posted July 7th, 2009 1:29 AM EDT by arn in News, iPhone games, iPod touch games
Apple has started promoting [link] the fact that the App Store launched a year ago this week. The celebration seems to be a bit premature as the official launch date for the App Store was July 11th, 2008. Still, Apple has collected a list of their "favorite" games to celebrate the occasion. It appears the lists are a little different depending on which region you are in. Here are some of the favorite games from the U.S., U.K., and Australia regions:
Common Favorites
- Flight Control ($0.99)
- EDGE ($4.99)
- Fieldrunners ($2.99)
- Toki Tori ($0.99)
- Rolando ($5.99)
- TouchGrind ($4.99)
- Flick Fishing ($0.99)
- Real Tennis 2009 ($4.99)
- Sims 3 ($9.99)
- 2XL Supercross ($7.99)
- Zen Bound ($4.99)
- Real Racing ($9.99)
- Topple 2 ($0.99)
- Baseball Slugger ($2.99)
UK/Australia Specific (Some of these links may not work in U.S.)
- Bloons ($0.99)
- Monopoly ($4.99)
- Tiger Woods ($6.99)
- Myst ($5.99)
- Sonic the Hedgehog ($5.99)
- Trism ($2.99)
- Sentinel: Mars Defense ($0.99)
- Super Yum Yum ($1.99)
- Paper Toss (Free)
- F.A.S.T. ($1.99)
- Real Soccer/Football 2009 ($0.99)
- De Blob ($3.99)
- Crazy Machines ($2.99)
- Tiki Towers ($1.99)
- Up There ($1.99)
- Spore Origins ($2.99)
U.S. Specific
- geoDefense ($3.99)
- Let's Golf! ($1.99)
- Peggle ($4.99)
- WordFu ($0.99)
- Airport Mania: First Flight ($0.99)
- Sally's Salon ($0.99)
- Tap Tap Revenge (Free)
- Bejeweled 2 ($2.99)
- Labyrinth ($2.99)
- Fantastic Contraption ($4.99)
- Terminator Salvation ($4.99)
- iDracula ($2.99)
- Eliss ($0.99)
- Motion X Poker ($2.99)
- Glyder ($1.99)
- Galaxy on Fire ($4.99)
Wow, in Russia we have
Baseball Slugger
2XL Supercross
Zen Bound
geoDefence
The Sims 3
Real Racing
Let's Golf
Touchgrind
Edge
Peggle
Rolando
Fieldrunners
Some of the UK/Australia specific games are pretty bad picks, IMO.
My game picking must be up go scratch if I own all the common favourites
:')….
*sniffles*
they grow up so fast!!
There were not 50k apps actually in the store but Apple said there were.
They say they are 1 when they are not actually 1.
Apple. Premature. Typical.
Can't see the point of this though.
How is it premature when it's only a week away? Should they have only promoted a billion downloads RIGHT ON THE DOT too?
Stop being so pedantic and just enjoy what you have here
well, said Mark. i can't see the point of promotion…
er…
wait, what?
Canada's list is nearly identical to that of the US. The only difference I can see is that we prefer Tap Tap Revenge 2 over Tap Tap Revenge.
Jim, I came to post the exact same thing
Hey where is this in the App Store? I can't find it on the homepage of the App Store or anything. The only way to get to it is using the link.
Yay – Underworlds makes the graphic
I don't see what the big deal is anyway. It's just a listing of popular apps – no special birthday celebration prices or anything. Now, offer an anniversary SALE and you've got my interest.
woooo my game is on there!
I'm just glad that they didn't pick a bunch of high priced apps to increase their profits
What about Galcon?? That is THE best online multiplayer game on there right now, the only game that I have still stuck with over the past 6 months! I get bored of everything else, but Galcon. And yet, so few have heard of it T_T