iPhone games aren’t always puzzles, shrouded in mystery or suspense. Sometimes they’re unbelievably simple games like TargetTap. TargetTap is a game where the aim is to quickly hit the red targets. The more of them you hit the more points you earn.

Mission: Navigate your Dropship spacecraft through the most treacherous canyons anywhere in deep  space, while dodging sustained enemy fire from turrets, tanks and interceptors. When you’ve reached the chasm’s deepest bowels, retrieve glowing, life-sustaining cargo pods and evacuate your marooned friends. Understood? (…)

The aliens have arrived! Break out the semi-automatic infrared laser beam shots and fire. Galactic Invasion is an arcade style game where aliens pour out of gigantic spacecraft trying to invade the world. The goal of Galactic Invasion is to keep their numbers small and don’t let them get past you. If they overtake you, game over. (…)

Atari has been releasing games for home consoles and arcade machines for more than 30 years and along the way, it has continued to refine and port its games to a wide variety of platforms. Following the arcade-game path laid down by Missile Command and Super Breakout in September, Atari has just released the venerable Centipede for the iPhone. (…)

The newly released GoSanta! app by developer Great Apps is a Christmas-themed arcade game with a fun holiday soundtrack.
GoSanta is simple and easy to pick up for the young and old. The evil Grinch has stolen all of Santa’s Christmas presents and all of the kids will be sad if Santa does not get them back. (…)

Wow! Space Out by dedicated iPhone, iPod touch game dvelopers Binary Square is harder than it looks. It could be the deceivingly simple 8-bit stylized graphics, or the fact that the game seems so familiar (it’s a mash-up of Space Invaders and Breakout), but regardless of why…set a timer when you sit down to play or you’re bound to lose hours trying to master Space Out.

Sega’s Super Monkey Ball sits fifth on Apple’s newly released of Top 10 iPhone apps of 2008 in the over-all, best-seller category. It ranks as 2008’s fourth best seller in the games category.
Sega claims to have sold 300,000 copies of Super Monkey Ball and that was in the first 20 days. Who knows where the count is now. (…)

Games like “Breakout” appeal to me because they’re mindless, which describes me quite often.
Gameloft’s Block Breaker Deluxe 2 is a spiffed up version of the classic Breakout game. (…)