It seems there’s no shortage of racing games for the iPhone.  The tilt control alone makes for a very Wii-like racing experience on the iPhone and iPod Touch. In fact, we keep hoping somebody will do an Excite Truck clone for the iPhone. Excite Truck is, in my opinion, still the best game for the Wii.

But in the meantime, we’ll settle for Aqua Moto Racing Lite, a unique offering that simulates misty, tropical jet-skiing races. The developer bills it as the ultimate test of your jet-skiing skills.  In lieu of heading to south Florida for some real-life jet ski action, we’ll take it.

Tags: fun, games, iphone, ipod touch, jet ski, racing, software

Digital Illusions’ classic (and I stress classic) pinball simulation for teh Amiga–Pinball Dreams–has been resurrected to amazing effect on the iPhone/iPod Touch.  Serious gamers will remember burning many, many hours during the nineties play what many argue is the greatest Amiga game of all time.  $5.99 on the app store.  Now go play pinball.

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If you’ve got the 99-cent treasure, Amazing X-Ray FX, from the app-store, you’ve got all the bar-side, friend-fooling silly-ness you’ll need.  But you still won’t be able to shoot video or photo-message with your iPhone.

Completely fool your friends into thinking your iPhone or iPod touch doubles as an amazingly cool hand X-Ray machine.

Be blown away by just how realistic the X-Ray looks, an effect achieved by a multi-layering technique of ultra hi-res Xray images, subtly moving in 3D like phased sync with real-time movements you control (accelerometer sensor based).

You will swear this is the real deal.

Wow. We’re sold.  I’m going to download this one right now.  This should be a huge hit with the junior high school set.

Tags: appstore, fun, fx, games, iphone, jokes, x-ray

Anybody who grew up in the eighties had a slot car racing set and a real good pink rubber eraser for cleaning the electric contacts rails on the track.  Of course, I never owned a set that was four lanes wide like the virtual ones seen here.

Those of us with an itch for slot car racing can relive the feeling again with FreeVerse’s latest iPhone game, SlotzRacer, and thanks to FreeVerse’s programmers–we can now design our own tracks! Awesome.  Figure 8 crashjump, here we come.

Tags: freeverse, games, iphone, ipod touch, racing, slotcar, slotzcar

THQ’s new iPhone game lineup includes a version of the popular console game De Blob, which I first saw on the Wii.  All of THQ’s iPhone games are available in the Appstore.  Check out THQ’s video promoting these quirky games:

THQ Games for iPhone

Tags: appstore, de blog, games, iphone, software, thq, wii