iOS 4 arcade wallpaper

Thank you! I do like clean lines too and some of them are a little busy, but I keep looking for classic arcade games that would lend themselves well to cleaner designs.

 

Hey, not bad, classic Game Boy action there.

 

Just added The Electric Yo-Yo, another one of my faves.

 

Qix added.

 

I'd like to, but there's just no way to make one that isn't ridiculously busy and would look like crap underneath the icons. I could fade it, I suppose, but I've been trying to avoid that in favour of greater visibility to make it look like the game is playing behind your icons.

 

Joust could work; the platforms would be easy to position behind icons, and the lower platform is mostly out of the way. The only thing that might get in the way a little bit is the jousters themselves, which may be a little large even to position within 4-way icon intersections. I can resize, but it's hard reducing what are already small sprites without losing critical detail or crunching lines into sub-pixel range without using bilinear filtering in the rescaling (which looks like crap on retro graphics). I'll play around with it though and see if it can be made to work.

 

Snake is a little simplistic I think -- not much eye candy -- but it does give me a good idea for the arcade's take on it: Nibbler! That would work well I think.

 

And thus, Nibbler has been added.

 

Thanks -- from one old fart to another.

The idea of Star Wars intrigued me and I thought the first vector game would make a good candidate, so I just added it to the first post. Unfortunately iOS 4 compresses the crap out of homescreen images, so the vectors got a little washed out unfortunately, as you can tell from the in-use screenshot. But there it is anyway.