7 Best Arcade Style IPhone Games on the App Store

The Apple iPhone App Store is celebrating its one year anniversary of draining bank accounts and providing both the best and worst of content for your iPhone, and in honor of this momentous occasion we decided to give readers a "best of" series of iPhone apps and games.

This installment provides you with the 7 best arcade style iPhone games on the App Store.

The arcade genre has long been a favorite for people looking for fast-paced, pick up and play accessibility. These games are quick to understand and enjoy, but can often take a lot of work and time to master.

As with everything on the App Store, there are far more arcade games available than it would be prudent to try, but fortunately the cream of the crop has risen to the top. We are pleased to offer you the 7 best arcade style games on the App Store.

Best Arcade Style iPhone Games - 7) StoneLoops! of Jurassica
This arcade game very closely resembles an old Apple iPhone favorite, Zuma. Players are faced with a constantly advancing chain of multicolored balls moving slowly toward a totem. Players must fire their own balls at balls of a similar color, knocking out chains of three or more and preventing the chain from reaching the totem. Many maps and endless fun.

StoneLoops! Of Jurassica is available for $.99 on the App Store.

Best Arcade Style iPhone Games - 6) Flight Control
Flight Control is a unique game which places gamers in the role of an air traffic controller attempting to land various types of planes while keeping those in the air from colliding. Sound easy? This is actually one of the more challenging games on this list. The developers have recently added a new addition to this arcade game: the ability to coordinate with a friend to land planes together. A worthy purchase.

Flight Control is available for $.99 on the App Store.

Best Arcade Style iPhone Games - 5) Aurora Feint 2: the Arena
While Aurora Feint can appear a bit in-depth to be classified as an arcade game, its gameplay is classic. Players shift blocks in an ever-growing wall to match colors and shapes, destroying the blocks and gaining resources along the way. What makes this iPhone arcade game unique is the ability to turn your device on its side or upside-down and use gravity to shift all blocks closer to the ground, creating new options for victory.

Aurora Feint 2: the Arena is available for $4.99 on the App Store.

Best Arcade Style iPhone Games - 4) Bejeweled 2
This classic phone arcade game makes its appearance on the iPhone, bringing its tried and true gameplay to Apple's system. It is easy to get lost in Bejeweled for hours, moving small colored jewels around and staring at the nicely added, other-worldly scenery.

Bejeweled 2 is available for $2.99 on the App Store.

Best Arcade Style iPhone Games - 3) Rolando 2
The first Rolando was an arcade game that masqueraded as a platformer, and Rolando 2 is no different. Gamers use the iPhone's built-in accelerometer to control lively, personable balls with different abilities as the roll, jump, stick, and fall their way through the ever-changing world of Rolando. Great fun, and innovative gamelay.

Rolando 2 is available for $9.99, and the original Rolando is available for $5.99 on the App Store.

Best Arcade Style iPhone Games - 2) Block Breaker Deluxe 2
The classic block breaker, pong-style arcade game finds its home on the Apple iPhone with Block Breaker Deluxe 2. This game offers a ton of fresh new twists on the old gameplay, and simply looks fantastic. It will take a great deal of skill to beat this game, and once it is beaten, you will continue to play for a long time to come.

Block Breaker Deluxe 2 is available for $.99 on the App Store.

Best Arcade Style iPhone Games - 1) Peggle
Peggle might just be the most fun game you can find for your iPhone. It's addictive gamplay is modeled after the pachinko machines of yore, and adds a fresh kick that pushes this arcade game over the top. Gamers fire a ball at pegs on a map, trying to eliminate all of the orange pegs only using a certain amount of pachinko balls. Special abilities help, and create endless fun options.

To top it off, a victory in Peggle means a grand fireworks display and a choral version of the "Ode to Joy" that is, in a word, priceless.

Peggle is available for $4.99 on the App Store.

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