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The touchscreen also makes games involving tracing pathways (similar to many Nintendo DS games) possible alongside old-school PDA tap-and-drag games. For example, driving games such as Pole Position Remix often have the player tilt the entire unit in lieu of providing a steering wheel, and other games use it to control an object's movement around the screen, such as a marble in a maze. Many games for the platform are designed to use the accelerometer as a primary control. Most iOS devices (at least after the second generation iPod touch) share several characteristics: the most important are the accelerometer/tilt sensor and the touch screen. Quality varies wildly throughout this category: on one end of the spectrum, there's Ghost Trick, which looks and plays beautifully across all 'i' devices.

The overlap with the 'retro' category is based on how old the original game is.

Games originally designed for an entirely different system that are released in full or as a mini-version for iPhone.

Really old games that have made a comeback on the smartphones, sometimes facilitated with emulation.

Original games that were made for the smartphones, taking advantage of their interface.

Games (and similar apps) that can be played on an iPhone, iPad, or the now-discontinued iPod Touch. Shooting zombies? There's an app for that! note Game pictured is Zombieville USA, photo by ilamont

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