There are likely very few people on the entire planet who wouldn’t know what Temple Run (Free) is, or at the very least recognize the name of the monstrously successful mobile game. When historians are writing the history of the App Store someday, Temple Run would easily qualify as one of the main pillars of success alongside things like Angry Birds, Pocket God, Tiny Wings, and Doodle Jump. What may not be as well known is that the studio behind Temple Run, Imangi Studios, is turning ten years old today and they have been toiling away in the App Store since the very beginning, long before Temple Run changed their lives forever in late 2011/early 2012. Originally just a husband and wife duo of Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova, Imangi has since expanded to keep pace with the runaway success of Temple Run, but we thought it would be fun to kind of revisit some of their earlier mobile games over this past decade. Say hello to the original Imangi Studios!

Unless you were really into the mobile gaming scene when the App Store first launched in July of 2008, you might not even be aware that Imangi Studios is named after their very first mobile game: Imangi. In it you were tasked with finding as many words as possible from a grid of letters which you could rearrange by sliding the rows and columns like a match-3 game. Imangi was there the day the App Store officially opened on July 11, 2008 and was a unique enough twist on word games that it garnered quite a bit of lov...