Taito reveals Space Invaders, Cooking Mama games for iPhone, iPod, Android

by David Hinkle on Feb 27th 2009 3:55PM

Taito has announced that iPhone and iPod Touch users can access versions of Space Invaders and Cooking Mama in the app store now. The Space Invaders game available in the app store is of the classic variety, but features "full use of the motion sensor and other iPhone 3G and iPod Touch input methods." As for Cooking Mama, the version available for the iPhone and iPod Touch includes "both favorite recipes from past console installments as well as a variety of dishes completely new to the series" and has been enhanced to "make the most of the iPhone 3G / iPod touch's multi-touch screen accelerometer." You can find Cooking Mama and Space Invaders in the app store now for $6.99 and $4.99, respectively.

In addition to new games for Apple platforms, Taito has also announced plans to support Android. T-Mobile users will be able to pick up Arkanoid and Space Invaders now for $5.99 each.

Cooking Mama (iPhone/iPod)

Space Invaders (iPhone/iPod)

Tags: android, app-store, apple, arkanoid, cooking-mama, Google, iphone, ipod, ipod-touch, space-invaders, taito

Reader Comments (10)

Lol, probably some pissed off DS users that cooking mama's going to be so much cheaper on the iPhone and actually have more content.

Seriously. I'm glad I didn't purchase PuzzleQuest for my DS. You can get the full game for 8 bucks on iTunes.

There are honestly only a handful of must have iPhone games that rival DS/PSP games, but they're damn fun and nicely priced.

I would get space invaders, but i have the Storm so that's not an option... I wish they would hurry up with the "app store".

@Naeem

Which games might you consider "must haves" for the iPod touch? I'd play more games on it if there weren't so much crap to filter through.

Well, like I said before, PuzzleQuest is taking up a huge amount of my time.

Also, check these out:

Rolando
iDracula
Simcity
Blue Attack
Asphalt 4
Fieldrunners

If you're into RPG's:

Vay
Chronicles of Inotia

And I personally love Tetris on the iPhone.

The original Space Invaders with big-fat-finger-on-a-touchscreen control for only five bucks? Brilliant.

As I understand it, the version of Puzzle Quest that's currently available on the App Store is not the full version, only the first Chapter (of three I believe). So you still may end up paying $30 to get the same, complete version that's on the DS.

I did hear that they're giving the second chapter away as a free upgrade to those who purchased chapter 1, so it still may turn out to be a decent deal, or at least in budget DS territory ($20).

Glad to see that paid apps movement for Android is helping developers jump on board. Android needs this sort of support to make it a good competitor with not just the App Store, but also with Nokia's newly announced 'Nokia Applications' as well as their N-Gage service.

"T-Mobile users will be able to pick up Arkanoid and Space Invaders now for $5.99 each."

Or... not? It's not showing up in the Market at all right now. I'm definitely grabbing them for Android because of the awesome return policy (and using a touch screen with Space Invaders seems iffy).

i bought the cooking mama game, its fun for a mobile game but its nothing like the ds game, it hardly has any dishes and they ruined mama by taking out her sound, she dosent speak in the iphone version T___T

fun for 7 dollars but the ds version is still the best ... by far lol

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