Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the Classic Reload, the monthly feature where we know not what we do, but we do it just the same. Each month, we take a look at a game from the App Store's past to see how it holds up in the present day. It's a chance to revisit old favorites, reflect on their place in the overall iOS library, or simply to take a deeper dive than our reviews typically allow. I'll do my best to present an interesting selection of games in this feature, but if there's something you'd really like to see covered, please let me know by commenting below the article. I can't promise you'll see your suggestion soon, but I'll certainly consider it for a future highlight.

We're picking this series up right where I left off several months ago. My plan for the initial batch of Classic Reloads was to go through all of the games that won Game of the Year here at TouchArcade before moving on to others. I'm not going to hew quite so strictly to that idea now that we've relaunched this feature, but that's still the general outline for the first several articles. Previous articles covered our 2009 Game of the Year, Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor [$1.99], and our 2010 iPhone Game of the Year, Space Miner [$3.99]. We'll be getting to the 2011 Game of the Year, Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery [$3.99], before too long, but due to the recent 30th anniversary of Metroid, I wanted to skip ahead to talk about our 2012 Game of the Year first. I know, I know, you're all just...