Skee-Ball is $0.99 and brings the fun of the boardwalk to the palm of your hand. There are 3D graphics, great physics, and awesome prizes. With a flick, roll the ball up the ramp into one of the numbered holes for points, tickets or unlockable achievements. Win prizes to go on a shopping-spree for fun prizes – over 80 prizes in all.

Arcade Hoops Basketball Lite is a free app. See how many baskets you can sink in 45 seconds. Use only four fingers and eye hand coordination. You can upgrade to the full version and get many more features.

Frogger is $0.99 and is one of the top selling games of all time. Enjoy Facebook connection. You can jump past cars and trucks on the road to hitch a ride on logs on the control scheme. Beat your Facebook friends and the World if you can!

Arcade Bowling is $0.99 for a limited time. Use your fingers to flick laser balls down the alley into the scoring holes. The further the scoring hole is the more points you will make. Tilt your device to influence the balls trajectory. Use the accelerometer to adjust your aim by tilting left or right. Adjusts the balls speed by tilting back and forward. Features include: classic mode, progressive mode, choice of two background music, local high scores, global high scores and sound control.

Arcade Claw is $0.99 and tests your claw game skills. There are four different crane machines with a dozen prizes. Earn credits to win a mystery prize.

Skee-Ball is the app of the week and is $0.99. Classic arcade game right on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Awesome prizes with 3D graphics make this classic boardwalk game a hit to play. Roll the ball with a quick flick into one of the numbered holes to receive tickets, points and unlockable achievements. When you win enough tickets you can go shopping and purchase one of over eighty prizes. Roll the ball by flicking your finger across the screen or with a bowling motion and tilt to add spin. Compete with players worldwide.

Frogger is 29 years old but is one of the best selling video games that is now available on your iPhone for $0.99. This original arcade game has been captured for digital play while allowing you connectivity through Facebook. You can view and jump past your friends high scores or compete with people all over the world.

Kinetic Balls is free and is an electronic Newton. You can change the skins of the balls and there are plans to provide even more variety. Recently introduced and is already a top game app.

IBomber is an arcade style game based in the Pacific Ocean in 1943 and is free. You play as a bomber pilot protecting your fleet and destroying enemy targets on land and sea. Future updates will provide additional missions. Currently select from fourteen missions, graphics, 3D spatial sound and great audio that can use songs from your iTunes library.

How many of you out there really, really like the multi-player gamers that are military themed or just plain having to do with tanks? If you answered that this sounds like you or is you for the most part you might like to play Tank Tigers. This little game is one that is definitely a 3D game that gives you the thrill of being behind the wheel as it were of a military style tank and able to shoot the daylights out of another person’s tank.

One observation that we have here is that those of you that are in the military or were in active duty combat already know how this process works, but might still enjoy getting to shoot the living daylights out of someone else’s tank. We can tell you that this is a game that definitely does support and allow for multi-player action when you are in a WiFi area. Something that people really do need to remember is that other players can and often do “sneak” up on you from behind – if it really is possible for a huge tank to sneak up on anyone or anything from anywhere – and level your tank with their own fire power. The controls for the motions in the game are pretty simple and straightforward. All you need to do is watch the display to the right of the main control and fire when your tank has an opponent’s tanks is in your sights. You might find this game fun to sit there and enjoy.

If you are a hardcore puzzle lover, then you will love pocketball. Hours of game play is guaranteed with this not so new game. Sometimes, you may have to think hard to achieve the goal and at other times, you have to be just lucky to reach your goal. There is only a thin line of separation between these two situations and this makes pocketball really interesting. If you like challenges with the goal being very simple, then pocketball is for you.

Colored balls are given to you and you have to direct those balls to the colored pockets using natural gravity. As you touch the button at the top, balls fall from the top. The objective is straight and not confusing, but what is more challenging, is the hurdles you will see during game play. There will be random pointers for each level that direct the ball to one direction. There will be dots all along and you have to connect those dots to make your ball bounce and reflect. Interesting black holes are found in some levels to keep the game more challenging.

Pocketball is a realistic, streamlined game with the Mac inspiration. There are no clutter menus and you can start playing right away. Sounds are sparse though you will hear some clicks as the ball bounces.

The game play is much of trial and error for each level and this is fun for those who love challenging puzzles. However, there is nothing like that of a storyline nor impressive music that will encourage you to finish all the levels.

Life is never all work and no play folks; or at least it should not be. You need to sit back and relax as well as step out of your all-business mode for at least a little while every day in order to keep your inner balance intact. There is nothing like playing a good game like Scrabble and Bejeweled 2 or even having a little fun with the Etch-A-Sketch app. Do you want to be able to watch your favorite YouTube videos on the go? Well you are in luck because your iPhone already had YouTube player built right into the phone itself. Those of you that absolutely love playing Texas Hold ‘Em will love and probably cannot wait ti buy and install the Texas Hold ‘Em app.

Did you know that iPhone also has another Poker app called MotionX Poker? It does and this app makes it absolutely real and feel as if you really have a pair of dice in your hands. If you like puzzle games you might get a kick out of the Enigmo game app. This is a game in which you are controlling liquid droplets as they fall. Hey NASCAR fans! Those of you that like racing games might like Cro-Mag Rally. You will use your iPhone itself to steer your way along and fire upon your competitors. Of course you will always be able to find some of the classics and new favorites such as Battleship, Skee-Ball, Doodle Jump and WHAC-A-MOLE: Whacky Xmas.

Among the various genres of games, structure building games are not too many in the app store. A welcome addition to this genre is bridge odyssey. This interesting game was developed by Gameloft. It is all about bridge building landscape that encourages you to use various physical elements available for you. The game is perfectly designed with ample graphics and challenges to keep you hooked to your iPhone for a few hours.

The game objective is very simple. Build the bridge from one side to another side using the given objects and specific number of pieces. The challenges increase as you advance in levels. Further, you will be carrying pets on the bridge and the number of pets will be increasing with different levels. The bridge you build using the pieces must be strong enough to let all your pets travel to the other side. Bonus points will be given to you as your pets collect golden eggs as they pass through each level.

The game is easy to play even for a new iPhone user. Drags and taps on the touch screen are required to build the bridge and play the game. Pinch your iPhone to zoom in and zoom out which is another common control action. In case you want to fix bridge construction errors, you can simply use the undo button.

Bridge building can be interesting if you are playing for the first time. Repeated game play is not very interesting for this kind of game once you discover how to build a bridge perfectly.

James Cameroon’s Avatar movie is the latest sensation in Hollywood now. You can now enjoy the movie prequel in the form of the game. Gameloft has introduced Avatar game which is an action adventure game that relates to the universe seen in Avatar movie. In this game, you will find a storyline which takes you to the universe of the film and the story is a prequel of the film.

Gameloft had the freedom to access the assets of the movie and the result is seen in the game. Stunning graphics, absolutely awesome universe, and original voice work by the cast of the movie itself are the specialties of Avatar game. 3GS specific enhancements are also available for the game which gives you scintillating experience while playing the game in your iPhone 3GS.

The complete action packed game will make you glued to your iPhone. Various actions such as swinging, jumping, climbing and fighting can be done using on screen virtual joystick. You have to explore the universe and accomplish quests in this role playing game. There are various challenging tasks to complete and several enemies that obstruct your way to combat. The game is highly interactive with intriguing storyline.

Avatar game has 15 chapters and total play time is estimated to be 7.5 hours. Replays can be interesting by changing your fighting tactics. Gameloft has rightly used the hype of Avatar movie to come up with a compelling game which is distinctly different from other iPhone games.

Now, there are more reasons why you should get hold of the ever popular iPhone (sad thing the phone is still not available in most countries outside the US and UK) or if you’ve been bored checking out the menus and folders of your iPhone, save your thumb for this:

Gameloft, a developer and publisher of games for mobile phones – who already produces games for the iPod – has said it will develop over 15 mobile games built upon Apple’s iPhone software development kit to be launched this year.

Yes! Not just one, not just two but 15 mobile games for all you iPhone lovers. 15 games to numb your thumb. 15 games to pop your eyeballs open. 15 games to choose from while waiting for your friend’s call. (more…)