Spore 1.0.7 iPhone iPod Touch

Spore Origins is the kind of game the iPhone was built for: simple, engaging gameplay that takes advantage of the handheld's advanced technology – in this case, the accelerometer, which requires you to tilt the iPhone as move your fledgling spore around the screen and chomp anything smaller than you. (If you have a current-generation iPod nano, you can do the same with the click wheel version of the game.) It's largely the same as the version Electronic Arts released for click wheel iPods, although, interestingly, it lacks its cousin's Aquarium mode and ability to upload your creations to EA's Spore site to fight other players' creatures. However, the former is simply a show in which you switch between songs in your iPod library to evolve the highlighted creature, while the latter isn't something I really cared about much when I played the click wheel version. You can't control your creature when it battles another one anyway; you just watch the two go at it and hope yours wins.