When a mobile port of Vlambeer's hit arena platformer Super Crate Box [$1.99] was first announced nearly five years ago, it felt like huge things were on the horizon for the small indie developer in the mobile realm. Despite being a twitchy game built for physical controls, Super Crate Box actually translated extremely well to the touchscreen and we absolutely loved it in our original review. Vlambeer had a novel idea for their update roadmap too, as there was a running total of all crates collected in the game worldwide and once that number hit certain milestones a new content update would be released.
Well, I don't think Vlambeer was prepared for how popular Super Crate Box would be on mobile and those thresholds were quickly hit well before any of their planned content updates were ready. Despite that, Vlambeer hustled and did release two significant content updates for Super Crate Box on iOS, one in January 2012 about a month after its initial release and one in April of 2012 when the crates collected milestone had passed the 100 million mark.
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All that momentum Super Crate Box had built up quietly faded throughout the rest of 2012, and the game's last update came in December of that year adding just a couple of minor features and promising that a huge version 1.2 content update would include support for the (then-new) widescreen of the iPhone 5 and "a bunch of new characters and challenges!" Obviously it's b...