The Golden Age of Apps

[@jdvids3761]

My little sister bought 400 dollars worth of “Smurf berries” and that’s when my mom realized for the first time ever that these mobile games dont need your credit card pin. I remember her calling the bank that day so stressed.

[@snowycatpurrs]

OH MY GOD My baby brother (at the time) bought 1000+ Smurf Berries with my dad’s card but because the app was brand new (it came out THAT exact day) they gave them a complete refund :)

[@jdvids3761]

@@snowycatpurrs I think my mom got a full refund too, I wonder how often banks would deal with charges like that in the early app game eras.

[@darlingditzypinkfloweremoji]

Ugh. I did something similar when I was younger. It makes me cringe every time.

[@c1arebear]

my brother did the same thing!! and then we were banned from playing the Smurf app

[@skyshunts]

Wth are Smurf berries

[@Root-YogurtMale]

Wowwy zowwy, Mobile Games were way better when you had 0 ads and 0 micro transactions, just the game.

[@sonicx0846]

Couldn't agree more

[@305-RTV]

Every time I die or lose, I just close the app and reopen it.

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

That applies to almost everything though

[@Root-YogurtMale]

@@JoshuaJacobs83 exactly

[@therubygamer5978]

Wowwy zowwy indeed

[@PolygonDonut]

NYAN CAT LOST IN SPACE MY BELOVED!!!!! I had a major nyan cat hyperfixation as a kid LMAO

[@dreamyjellies]

i did too!! it was epic AND random XD :3

[@cinnamondoesstuff18]

hi pongon !!

[@candyZ123]

PONGON SIGHTING!

[@NataliasClips]

Wait... Pongon AND Dream jelly? Two KZbinrs that I'm subscribed to talking about a game that I played years ago and still play to this day? I think subscribing to both of you guys was fate!

[@nuggetz3352]

MY TWO FAV YTUBERS

[@fuzzymelon1261]

i miss back when games didnt have ads every 10 seconds or a paid subscription for the game/app.

[@FollowMe4REP]

I miss when there were games with finite microtransactions and developers who didn’t hate you whom you didn’t mind supporting

[@xwrecker]

@@fuzzymelon1261 yup screw monetizations and ads

[@vibrantgleam]

omfg for real.

[@emilyofjane]

Y’all remember when Logo Quizzes were everywhere? Omg I was so good at those

[@TheRandom1212Channel]

you're not good at them anymore

[@emilyofjane]

@@TheRandom1212Channel Bet

[@Gleamiarts]

Man i was obsessed with those

[@MaroonerForeverr]

yeahhhh

[@DogManandMixelsFTWEmojiCatFTL]

Same, but LogosQuiz was one of my personal favourites.

[@topdawg2916]

That 2008 to 2013 period was a great time looking back smartphones were starting to get popular but you had blackberries flip phones and other keyboard phones in society and the games like subway surfers and temple run was so fun

[@itsgabibelle]

pocket god unlocked a DEEP forgotten memory thank you for that

[@jamztheworld12]

yooooo it’s gabi!!!!

[@hoennfanboy]

GABI BALLS

[@Thedramalovesme89]

Gabi balls

[@Eggs_Benedict1114]

GABBIIIII

[@ellashortsfyp]

HOW DOES THIS HAVE LIKE NO REPLYE HII GABII

[@Obsessive_cartoon_drawer]

How did you not cover talking Tom, that one shaped me in many ways

[@Xxsoda_drinker_pro_fanxX]

That just reminded me of when I was scared of talking Ben for some reason.

[@Obsessive_cartoon_drawer]

@@Xxsoda_drinker_pro_fanxX lollll

[@lovers807]

@@Xxsoda_drinker_pro_fanxX I remember the whole talking Angela scandal where everyone was saying there was someone watching you and that there’s a reflection of the dude doing it in her eye so your fear was for sure common

[@Xxsoda_drinker_pro_fanxX]

@@lovers807 I actually never heard of it until a few years after the whole scandal happened.

[@jordanbrown3887]

yoooooooooooo

[@dd58089]

the clips of the cupcake decorator game where you'd swipe all over to "reveal" the icing made me do an irl ratatouille flashback moment oml

[@WHALEBOY777]

Having physics in your phone was mind blowing at the time, that's why the lighter and beer glass were such a novelty lol Also the juicy fruit app having "tom felton still talking about harry potter" is so ahead of it's time.

[@O_Scud]

Omg I totally forgot about virtual families. That game was stressful af because food was a resource you had to manage, and being low on food or god forbid your RUN OUT of food with a whole virtual family made me feel so bad

[@Scarylyn14]

Imagine trying to keep alive an entire colony of those little guys! Virtual Villagers was hard af as a small child 😂

[@O_Scud]

@@Scarylyn14 what’s funny is I never connected the two games until this video lol. I actually did play virtual villagers too. I played the DS version. In virtual villagers, it got to a point where I had too many villagers, and optimizing their skills became too tedious and I just had a lot of unskilled bums taking up resources. Fun little god game that you just don’t see anymore.

[@zoeyc5851]

It was so hard!!

[@ravendunn6486]

You sharing your Hollister story compelled me to share mine. I went with my brother to pick up dinner for my family at Popeyes. They were busy so they had us wait in the parking lot. I had my phone audio hooked up to the radio and was showing my brother an assortment of YuGiOh memes. And I was trying to get this Duke Devlin meme to load but it wouldn't. So I was just staring at my phone when the Popeyes worker came over with the food. My brother rolled down the window to take it just as the meme loaded and the speakers blasted "I'M BRINGING SEXY BACK!" as soon as the window came down. There was a lot of staring and laughing.

[@StarShapedVoid]

My favorite mobile apps/games were the "totally legit not at all fake" paranormal ghost radios and radars, I'd spend hours at my friends house hunting ghosts with them in their basement until one of us eventually got too scared and chickened out only to start right back up a few hours later.

[@SlapStyleAnims]

That sounds so fun 😂

[@elinkomulainen7297]

OMG I FORGOT THAT IT EXISTED! Me and my ciusins used to do that too! God times 😂

[@ZeepAtomic]

I loved Pocket God as a kid. I remember feeling so awful from just watching the pygmies drown.

[@Root-YogurtMale]

Yoooo

[@GummitMan]

uiuauia

[@ZeepAtomic]

​@@GummitMan Nice sound effect recreation.

[@Midnightlunar10]

My sadistic ass would have been cackling

[@GummitMan]

@@ZeepAtomic cheers

[@fancypapercutz]

omg seeing some of those apps in the thumbnail, I realized I completely forgot about them

[@ogre_princess]

Early app games were such a fun time/era. This video reminded me of the original version of the Tiny Tower app/game. It had such a darling pixely art style and I loved growing my tower, the little side quests, putting my tower occupants in silly outfits, etc.! Eventually they updated/overhauled the game to where it was no longer recognizable. RIP 😔

[@Scarylyn14]

My personal favorite was the Star Wars spinoff, Tiny Death Star. I went looking for it recently to discover it’s no longer on the App Store 😭

[@dandelionlys]

omg I forgot about tiny tower

[@SticklysKingdom]

i had a phase where i'd download a bunch of apps that in retrospect were clearly amateur programmers' pet projects made out of free/cheap files from unity asset store, but even so the minimalist vibes with blank white textures and dim morning lighting are super nostalgic to me now

[@SwaggyG_2102]

God, what I would give for all of us to go back to the late 2000s - early 2010s era of mobile games.

[@skoda9635]

I hope you mean Java games, they were true gems with no ads and micro transactions. That's something that a girl in a video forgot - older phones had thousands of apps or games but they didn't had store (well later Symbian had). TrackID was Shazam of the era, Gameloft games were so deep and story driven (basically nothing can still get on that level of story telling), you had great Sims ports and other games from EA too (back when EA was great). When I got my first touchscreen phone I was sad that games were shallow suddenly (I mean look at games like Doodle Jump, Paper Toss, Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja...they are the same all the time). It just got worse with ads and micro transactions and greed of devs. Yes, there are some ports of PC games or fuly fledged games but they are only few and far between.

[@MasonMarkle]

yeah, that what I'm saying angry birds, pvz and the battle cats nowadays mobile game hit rock bottom

[@Chubby_Bub]

I remember when my friend taught me that you could change the device time to speed up things in the Smurfs game. Eventually they added a message where Papa Smurf said "if I catch you changing the clocks again, Smurfs will leave the village." This wasn't even true but I can imagine it scaring a lot of kids.

[@IchigoG]

Dose anyone remember the classic toca boca games? Ya know before the new toca life games (well there was toca town but the other games). Example Toca Kichen, Toca Blocks, Toca Hair Salon and Toca Natrue

[@schezo8678]

hell ya they were goated

[@IchigoG]

@@schezo8678 indeed they were

[@jessv4300]

YES I was definitely way past the toca games’ intended age demographic when I still played it💀

[@lillie4431]

everybody would crowd around the one friend who had it while they played since u had to buy most of them. i wanted the hair salon one so bad

[@IchigoG]

@@lillie4431 I wanted to buy Toca lab so bad

[@maveroni4154]

I remember playing temple run and cut the rope so much. I even somehow got a plush of the little monster in cut the rope. I also played so many cooking games

[@TheGoldfishArmy]

I see Pocket God, I click. I was only like, 8 when I played it, but I've recently gone back and revisited it. I had no idea that thing had so many meme references. Like, it's not just the Double Rainbow. There's a character who's entire purpose is to spout Charlie Sheen quotes, a story line centered around mocking Tom Cruise and Scientology, a lot of the quests and hints directly reference internet culture of the time. As someone who's fascinated with the evolution of online culture, Pocket God is an incredible time capsule of the internet of the late 2000s and early 2010s, and a connection to that era I didn't even realize I had.

[@nicosledakis7452]

Pocket God feels like a time capsule of its era

[@icahopilm898]

What was your favorite reference you thought you forgot about?

[@TheGoldfishArmy]

@@icahopilm898 The "Apocalypse, Ow!" story line. When I watched the Scientology episode of South Park a couple of years ago my jaw just dropped because I recognized Xenu, Thetans, and Tom Cruise in the closet from the mobile game I played when I was 8. I eventually learned about all the meme stuff after binging some Justin Whang videos but nothing compares to that moment of realization when you realize the silly game where you fling little guys into volcanoes was making social commentary.

[@icahopilm898]

@@TheGoldfishArmy Nice! It really is like a mini time capsule. I didn't have a phone back then but I kind of wanna play, just to see what it was like.

[@Jetx74]

SAME!!

[@jordanc9658]

Man I LOVED the Sally's Spa games as a kid sooo much, I tried to download it again recently and it played an ad evrytime you finished a level and it made me so sad

[@jessv4300]

Ugh I was ready to redownload sally’s spa reading this comment until I read the ending😭 oh how the mighty have fallen

[@dovemaarika1668]

Paper toss had such a comfy vibe the sfx and visuals were so good

[@8bitgalaxyhunts]

Temple run was my fav route bathroom game. Also omg the old ass notes app at the end. So many bad fanfiction plots ❤️

[@shalalala4875]

I don’t even want to know how many hours I spent playing Temple Run- it was so addictive

[@chrisschuenke8316]

Never owned an iphone... so that lighter app montage totally blew my mind. These youtubes are very neat! Im going tell all my friends during cribbage.

[@gigik_]

the moron test was such a staple in my childhood. my fave has to be scribblenauts though, it was something that gave me endless hours of entertainment

[@Deadhousep1ants]

The virtual families app was my obsession as a 7 year old. I never got very far in it, sadly, because it constantly glitched and then I got bored of the glitches, but I started to think I hallucinated the game

[@megmoo96]

i used to have it on computer and it works much better on computer than a phone lol. it acts all weird on my phone too!

[@allisonsroom]

My favorite early app store game was Bakery Story and Restaurant Story. It was fun to decorate your own bakery/restaurant and see other players' as well. I re-downloaded it recently and I really like how they don't shove the microtransactions in your face and you can still buy in game decorations without using real money. Its a very laid back mobile game. 10/10

[@prettypic444]

I remember some of these games being so popular, they made physical versions for theme parks and arcades. Talk about a technical cycle!

[@jeannecaelum5167]

what a nostalgia journey. Even the Abercrombie part, the girls in my school used to show off being able to shop there. (Im German and it was that crazy here too) It truly was a strange time without any microtransactions, jsut our unhinged fun.

[@strawberysprite]

i mourn the loss of tap tap revenge every single day

[@megmoo96]

dude… it haunts me too…. i had so many songs on there that i purchased too… for them to just disappear to the nether

[@AlexanderAlystaer]

THIS and Techno Kitten Adventure

[@MusicComet]

I like how mobile game quality standard is now higher but it's so much harder to find a game that genuinely wants you to play it for fun rather than fomo. I really struggle finding healthy mobile games nowadays (not like it was any better back then). Also is it fair to call Cut the Rope a console game if it had releases on Nintendo consoles? Btw I LOVED that franchise as a kid, I've made and drawn multiple pieces of him back then. He's just too cute, I need to get that Om Nom plushie someday to fuel my old nostalgia (also C.A.T.S, Thief King? and that Jelly game by the same company are awesome, probably why I love puzzle games nowadays).

[@ClowncoreisCool]

Higher??? The majority of app games now are just the same three games that's either: "walk to the end of a level while collecting stuff", content farm dress up games, or the occasion decent game that actually just a microtransaction simulator with a mask on.

[@MusicComet]

​@@ClowncoreisCool I mean most of them have a lot more to do in them and are more fleshed out imo. I don't really count shovelware as mobile games because there's a lot of those on the mobile market because... kids. The "average" game standard is much higher imo.

[@gratedparmesan_]

I loved Nyan cat lost in space as a kid

[@jorrdan.]

The juicy fruit app literally had me in a chokehold and I forgot about it until just now 😭 I would run up to my mom with a fresh set of facial expressions prepared after learning one of the dialogues it was so serious for me

[@runningsandwich]

Figuratively

[@wuzihuzi]

Pocket Frogs and Tiny Tower were my two all time favourites.

[@charlieflowers8032]

tiny tower! woah what a throwback. my dad and i used to compete for the highest tower on that game

[@sarahni]

I don't think I've ever played a lot of these, but you definitely showed some of my childhood favorites, the trivia one, piano tiles. I was always the quickly bored kind

[@Gibaloop]

It’s like she knew I just made lunch

[@sailorspice]

dream jelly is my favorite vtuber, the low res png jelly collage sparks joy in me everytime i see it

[@bdluejay]

oh my god, apps on the ipod touch were a cornerstone in my childhood. this video is just nostalgia on nostalgia. the most memorable app that i used a lot during my paranormal phase was the ghost detecting app. i was so convinced it was real and me and my friends would use it during sleepovers to see which ghosts were around. it was easy to convince ourselves because there were cemeteries basically everywhere where we lived.

[@MoonlighthighwayStudios]

The hollister experience is literally what happened to me too

[@eaeangel5641]

I remember playing Minecraft PE lite, Doodle god, and Ice age village. I loved those games

[@Tiphaniees]

Sally’s spa and neko ATSUME remain on my phone till this day! ❤❤❤ but my golden age apps were def all the story apps like fashion story and bakery story

[@Corey-gv1be]

I still play Neko Atsume too, I've farmed up 550 golden fish by just buying bulk of the cheapest gold fish food and spamming that daily 💀💀💀

[@mica7974]

The old IOS wallpaper as the background is a nice touch to the video. It is such a shame that a lot just don’t work anymore. Some of my favorites were Zombie farm, Earth Vs Moon and the OG Minecraft pocket edition (like before it even had crafting)

[@Markimark151]

I remember when mobile apps didn’t have micro transactions! When they were actually quality mobile games you play on the go, like Flight Control, Critter Ball, Jewel Quest, etc! Even classic 8 bit games like Mega Man, Pac Man, and Tetris had no monetized content after you bought the app! It was always about the mobile gameplay, not about in app purchases that developers and publishers have become accustomed for their revenue.

[@L-92761]

Remembering the OG app store back in 2014-2016 and seeing what it is now its night and day

[@hamtaroluv98]

I still have virtual families! i had it on my computer growing up, along with the virtual villagers. I used to be obsessed with trees of doom too, if anyone remembers that one

[@fyshku]

16:45 omg… I played that specific donut making game so much as a kid, idk what it was about it that spoke to me so much but I was obsessed with it. that whole series of realistic png food decorating games were way more fun than they should’ve been.

[@lalabell666]

I love the nostalgia trip your channel always puts me through... always a happy day when you post!

[@YakkoWarnerTower]

Oh man, I loved that fun of good old apps from the 00s and 2010s back in college.

[@jessv4300]

The part at the end about new mobile games!! why do they look so complicated now, especially considering that they’re still meant for kids? I got the new Bloons game recently and it’s just one of many examples of games where there are just so many different things to click on right when you open the app that I don’t even want to learn how to play. It’s so frustrating to me

[@ggomglol]

This video made me so nostalgic, my friends and I used to be obsessed with Juicy Fruit Sweet Talk and I had totally forgotten about it. I’d put those apps with a bunch of push buttons that said different phrases and sound effects in the same category

[@faithevers6899]

i remember when i was a kid i spent like 6+ months saving up 150 dollars to get a refurbished ipod touch and it was the proudest purchase i ever made. i wish i still had it so i could see my notes app where i wrote about the boys i liked 😂😂

[@ace-xy8ub]

Great video. I will say jet pack joyride is def a clone of the old games where a helicopter would fly thru a cave and when u clicked it went up and when u didnt it went down

[@BonBon42]

8:59 🌸🎉 OhMyGod❣️ Firstly I Used To Associate The Song “Everybody Dance Now!” With The Robots Movie, Then I Started Associating It With Chicken Little, & Now I’m Gonna Associate It With Silly Tweens That Tried To Seem Cooler Then They Really Are❣️ Thanks Dream Jelly❣️ Now I’m Dying Of Laughter❣️ 🎉🌸

[@MikiEsco]

Tap Tap Revenge disappearing from the App Store absolutely broke me as a child.

[@TheNickofTime]

When I think of mobile games, the one that always comes to mind is Minecraft. Nowadays, Minecraft on mobile is just like PC or consoles, but back then it was this stripped down, tantalizing taste of what the proper version of the game was like. It was terrible, but it was the only version of Minecraft I had access to, so I played it. Sometimes I wish I could play that unfinished mess of a port again, just for the memories.

[@kenm.2793]

Mojang has tried really hard to make Minecraft Pocket Edition/Pocket Edition Lite unavailable to consumers, but you can still sail the high seas for it and emulate it today

[@barbarastanwyck4288]

"Everybody Dance Now" was unironically my best friend's ringtone for years. I was a sophisticated 16-year-old, however. 11-year-olds are embarrassed by anything.

[@ParkerBlank]

BABE LOOK NEW DREAM JELLY UPLOAD

[@deepstaria0868]

the gamecube animal crossing sound effects in this video bring me joy

[@eliasnavarro9245]

your editing style is so fun

[@janderson2653]

I love your editing and how you animate your little character!

[@starnathanstar]

The dog in the pics early in the video looks so much like mine! Absolutely adorable fella.

[@Jetx74]

omg pocket god (and its spinoff journey to uranus), smurf villages, virtual families (and virtual villagers which made by same developer) ARE literal definition of my childhood :')

[@hope52677]

I totally forgot about the smurf village app! I think it was one of my first games on my first tablet as well as high school story 😁 I wish apps nowadays wouldn't have so many ads and mirco transactions, than they probably would be more fun again!

[@c1arebear]

this brings back so many memories. I also loved the waterslide game where you would slide down a waterslide and collect coins, shave me, emily's girl world, the lightsaber app, cube runner, tiny wings, and doodle buddy, icarly sam's remote, driver, jelly car, topple, bubble wrap and ninjump!!

[@Ali_zhangHAO]

i never was this early on a dreamjelly upload! i feel accomplished 😭

[@gamebiadvance]

I remember a phase me and some of the kids in my class had with Pou! We all got them around the same time and we all kept like asking about each other's and reminding each other to feed them. With kid time it feels like it lasted a long time but I bet it was only about a month we all cared for them.

[@Raphe9000]

DS Stylus enjoyers unite *cromch* 🤤

[@DeeSaf1]

Wow, thanks for the trip down memory lane! Some other apps I played: Jelly Car, Rolando, Run!, Flight Control (i think it’s what it was called; landing planes).

[@NotOnLand]

I miss when smartphones were an extra, optional thing to make life better, and not literally necessary to live in modern society

[@CressAlwein]

Love this vid. Hit me right on the nostalgia nerve. I remember not having enough money for my own laptop or iPhone at the time so I saved up for that sweet second gen iPod Touch- which was surprisingly cheap for basically being an iPhone without camera or call function. The iPod let me keep in touch with the internet whilst in my own room and not at our family PC. I had bookmarked a website that would list free weekly apps so I would always have something to toy around with when not watching One Piece in 360p at some sketchy website

[@garfyields]

already know its gonna be good

[@miunya]

I remember the day when everyone said "Theres an app for that!"

[@scrappykiwi]

Mobile games used to be so good!!! Their decline in quality has been so disappointing 😢

[@joh2434]

9:14 That song is a banger, you have no reason to be ashamed of it 😁

[@eggfroggowo]

17:12 I REMEMBER PLAYING THIS GAME LOL

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

Yesss! I get nostalgia for the summer of 2008 when I first got a first gen IPod touch (which I still own to this day) and when the App Store first came out. Lots of fun with stupid sound effects, pretending to drink beer, bubble wrap apps, internet radio apps, apps where you would break windows and mirrors and stuff, all those simple novelties.

[@StrikerDeer]

!

[@crueltyfreecolorist1025]

I remember the amount of novelty apps and games around this time. Cat piano, cat translator and the ones you mentioned.

[@mmmapplesauce1673]

U got games on ur phone????

[@clowngutz]

SOMEONE WHO ALSO PLAYED THE FOOD MAKER GAMES THANK YOU SO MUCHHHH 😭🙏

[@hastaluegoluka]

omg i loved so many of these apps, especially the food making ones! my favorite one by far was this animal care/pet shop game called fluff rescue-i was obsessed with it and played it every day! unfortunately the developers stopped updating it and it’s no longer supported on any device with anything more recent than ios 12 lmao. i don’t even know if it’s still on the app store lol. great video as always! it made me nostalgic for the ipad mini i had from ages 12-14 !!

[@GoldenElucidator]

I absolutely loved those food making games when I was really young. I remember playing so many different ones. In terms of other games, one I'm nostalgic for is Labyrinth. You guided a marble to the goal using tilt controls.

[@CryptidDoogal]

Omg my favorite golden age game was 100% Fluff Friends Rescue. It was arguably the BEST pet care game where you took in sick and dirty pets, clean them up and care for them, and then put them up for adoption in a rescue you can actively make and decorate to your liking. And then you see people come in and look and eventually adopt your pets. It was SO good and I miss it so much. I really wish it was archived properly to play somehow again cause I really do miss it and sometimes look to see if files were ever found but there’s never anything. But there’s a niche community who also loved that game and still look for files if possible. I would be incredibly happy if it ever resurfaces again.

[@c1arebear]

omg I played a similar one but it was just called fluff friends, not fluff friends rescue. I wonder if they were made by the same people

[@orionfell]

shoutout to all my boys with the gun app on their ipod touch

[@nahmastay3300]

I really really miss tap tap revolution. I had the Coldplay and lady Gaga expansions and I played the hell out of them

[@FabulousSquidward]

I loved the fake taser that made your flashlight and vibrate go off

[@hookedonphoenix3112]

I accidentally pulled up Obama on the Fake-A-Call one back in 2010 or so, and I live in rural America, so everyone around started beating me up and shouting racial slurs into the phone. It was a magical time to be alive.

[@OctoberDoesArt]

Oh my god, temple god and the food making apps unlocked memories from DEEP in my brain! Especially the donut making game. I played a ton of these growing up and need to play them again!

[@SaveMeMoon]

I refused to get a smartphone for years and years after everyone started using them so I never had any of these apps and games myself, but I'm still weirdly nostalgic for them lol

[@lisalisa1261]

I loved Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage and Tiny Wings! Icebreaker was a game originally from miniclip and Tiny Wings was just soooo cute. The appstore would have a free game of the week spot, I was religiously checking that every week lol

[@italiangamerjoe7501]

Loved this video! I played so many classic apps and games back then. I also loved your rain background, that was also mine! ❤ also love the “EVERYBODY DANCE NOW” 🤣

[@hereonly2comment]

Fun Run and Flappy Golf were PEAK mobile games at my junior high

[@TheYellowGoggles]

Just wanted to say how much I love your videos. I’ve been having another binge watch while I work on cosplays and your vibe and voice are so nice. Fruit Ninja was my favorite!

[@ChiniganDoodles]

I'm surprised Flappy Bird didn't get a cameo here, iirc it was RIGHT on the cusp of mobile games becoming ad dumps.

[@GarnetBlazeAnimator]

I've always said virtual villagers/virtual families is the gateway to sims.

[@porcupiney]

thank you so much for mentioning Pocket God!! sometimes i remember that game and redownload it just for a blast of nostalgia. i think it helped define my sense of humor which is wild given that i didn't understand any of the references the game made

[@chickennuggetpaw]

I never played angry birds because I was obSESSED with animal simulator games when I was younger and when I found out that Angry Birds wasn’t about being an actual bird, I was irritated and never downloaded it 💀Some of my personal favorite games were Minecraft PE (even back before there were villages and more than 4 mobs in that version), Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride, any of those “Clan of __” animal games (specifically Clan of Cat and Clan of Owl), Cut the Rope, Pou, Talking Tom (specifically the one where you raise him from a baby) and The Sims Freeplay. I played them all on my Kindle Fire.

[@mjrstardust]

The virtual families games is probably my GOAT for this era of apps. Sooo good