Have you spent countless hours sitting on the couch, gaining weight, and being unproductive with a phone or tablet in hand? Of course you have! So has over half of the United States and these 7 games can take a majority of the blame!
Angry birds might have been the first game to really kickstart the mobile gaming phenomena. It started with an unusual premise to fling different types of birds at green pigs who stole their eggs. Just reading that description would be off-putting to most, but it has skyrocketed to superstardom, with sequels, spinoffs, clothing, merchandise, and a full-length motion picture is expected to be released in 2016. It was the stepping stone to other games that took their blueprint of hundreds of simple and quick (yet frustrating) levels that lead to months of gameplay.
Candy Crush is relatively new, being created in 2012, but is already the most popular game being played on Facebook. It’s a matching game in which you pair up correspondingly colored candies on a gaming surface that can be compared to a checker board on crack. There are obstacles, special candies and power-ups, and a storyline that comes right out of a pot-heads dream, but is more addicting than the gateway drug.
Fruit Ninja is another game that has evolved from just an app; it has moved up to consoles and arcades as well. But, the premise is still very simple: cut falling fruit with a sword, which is your finger swiping across the screen of your phone or tablet. The more fruit you cut, the more points you score…You don’t need a higher education to get that one. There are occasional falling bombs that if sliced, will end the game. Personally, I don’t understand the fascination in this one except that maybe it is a better solution to ADD than Ritalin.
Temple Run is another game that has soared in to another stratosphere of popularity because of its addictiveness. Like Angry Birds, there is scheduled to be a movie made about this app as well, which is most likely going to be an Indiana Jones rip off. Regardless, this is a reflexed based game in which the character is being chased through a temple while collecting coins and the player must swipe their finger to make quick turns and jumps to stay alive and collect treasure.
This game used the popularity of zombies to its advantage along with its addictive style of play. The basis of this game is to use the plants in the characters garden to repel an oncoming horde of zombies who are trying to eat the character’s brain. Like other addicting and popular apps, this one has graduated to bigger and better devices like Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, and arcade style. As most things in life, this game gets more intriguing when the sun goes down and the plants can’t replenish themselves so the player must use other household items to fend of the undead.
The objective of Cut the Rope is to feed a little green monster, named Om Nom, candy while collecting stars. The candy is held up by a rope and as the name implies, it must be cut so Om Nom can get his fill. The challenging part is that there are obstacles that the candy must be maneuvered around so it can get to Om Nom for him to chow down. Like Angry Birds, this game has also come out with numerous spinoff games that are equally as addicting.
Doodle Jump is more self-explanatory that one would think; a creature called “The Doodler” must jump up to everlasting platforms without falling. There are different obstacles depending on what device the game is being played on, but the foundation of the game is to keep jumping higher. This game was one of the earliest for the IOS and, because of its never-ending style of play, was an addicting app, but was then overshadowed by another game involving pigs and birds that came out later that year.
