The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn’t necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the highest scoring game in a review, the game with the best graphics, or really any other quantifiable “best" thing. Instead, it’s more just us picking out the single game out of the week’s releases that we think is the most noteworthy, surprising, interesting, or really any other hard to describe quality that makes it worth having if you were just going to pick up one.
These picks might be controversial, and that’s OK. If you disagree with what we’ve chosen, let’s try to use the comments of these articles to have conversations about what game is your game of the week and why. Without further ado?
Pocket City
SimCity 2000 holds a special place in my heart. My first computer that was actually bordering on being my computer was a Macintosh Performa 550 CD which could barely play any games. It had a CD-ROM drive, but was largely too slow for games like Myst and The 7th Guest. This kinda sorta left SimCity 2000 as the only game worth playing that both was a) available on the Mac and b) my Mac could run. Ever since the App Store started getting serious with more in-depth games, I’ve been dying to relive the nostalgia of SimCity. There’s SimCity BuildI...