Sometimes a game just hits a ton of my gaming preferences in a big time way.  I think my reviewer bias or tilt for this one would be something like 745,000.  It certainly is not the game for everyone, but it sure is for me.   The game that is my perfect iPhone game is called Rogue Touch, by ChronoSoft.

As I’ve mentioned before, I am a big fan of casual roguelikes.  Sure, sometimes I want to play the insanely complex and difficult ones.  But more often I just want something more basic with a simple control scheme that does not involve remembering a ton of hotkeys.  And I know I’m not hardcore, but I just can’t stand ascii graphics.  I’m going to be staring at any roguelike I play for a long period of time and I need it to be easy on the eyes.  And Rogue Touch fits this formula perfectly.  It’s not too simplistic…there’s plenty of items and monsters and fun.  But it’s very simple to pick up and play and the control scheme is easy to use once you get it down.  And it has rather nice graphics (okay for a roguelike…don’t expect anything amazing).

But that’s not the only reason I love Rogue Touch.  I was a huge Atari fanboy.  The Atari 2600 was my first gaming console and I had a ton of fun with that.  I moved on to the Atari 800 computer (it was seeing Star Raiders running in a store that first sold me) and that thing completely blew my mind.  It really was an awesome computer and I had absolutely tons of games on floppy disks.  Well early on I had a bunch of games on cassette tapes…CLOAD.  Then when the next generation of PC’s came out there was no question of what I was going with.  I snatched up an Atari 520 ST.  Again, it was an awesome machine.  The operating system was great, it was easy to use and there were more than enough games to keep me happy.  I held on to that baby way way longer than I should of.  And that was the end of my Atari run (I wasn’t crazy enough to get a Jaguar), but I still remember Atari fondly.

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