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I love 99-cent games. Wait, that’s not right: I love games that are priced at 99 cents. Which is why today is my lucky day: three major game developers have slashed prices on some of their bestselling titles.
Between them, Capcom, EA Games, and Gameloft are selling nearly 50 iPhone/iPod Touch games for 99 cents apiece–and a handful of iPad titles as well. (Update: SEGA titles are on sale as well.) That’s fairly unprecedented. The only tricky part is figuring out where to spend my shiny new dollar. (Oh, who am I kidding, I’ll probably end up spending a dozen of them.)
Capcom’s list is the shortest, so I’ll start there:
- Devil May Cry 4 Refrain
- Phoenix Wright
- Resident Evil 4 (also for iPad)
- Street Fighter IV
On the flipside, EA Games (which is “welcoming Verizon users to the iPhone”) has the longest list of goodies, including:
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- FIFA 10
- FIFA 11
- Madden NFL 11
- Mirror’s Edge
- Monopoly
- Monopoly Here & Now: The World Edition
- NBA Elite 11
- NCAA Football
- Need For Speed Hot Pursuit
- Need For Speed Shift
- Need For Speed Undercover
- Pictureka! (also for iPad)
- Reckless Racing (also for iPad)
- Risk: The Official Game
- Scrabble
- SimCity Deluxe
- Snood (also for iPad)
- Tetris
- The Game of Life Classic Edition
- The Sims 3
- The Sims 3 Ambitions
- The Sims 3 World Adventures
- The Simpsons Arcade
- Yahtzee (also for iPad)
Whew! Quite a list. Finally, we come to Gameloft, which has 13 titles on sale as part of a Valentine’s Day promotion (which ends Feb. 14, natch). Here’s the rundown:
- Brothers In Arms 2: Global Front
- Driver
- Fishing Kings
- Hero of Sparta II
- Let’s Golf! 2
- Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
- Rayman 2: The Great Escape
- Real Golf 2011
- Shadow Guardian (also for iPad)
- Shrek Kart
- Spider-Man: Total Mayhem
- Star Battalion (also for iPad)
- Zombie Infection
Gameloft is also letting users vote on a 14th game, one that will go on sale for 99 cents on Feb. 14. The only catch: to cast your vote, you have to “like” Gameloft on Facebook (a step I know some users won’t want to take).
My question for you: if you had only $1 to spend, which of these games would you buy–and why? I’d probably have to give the nod to Madden NFL 11, but, man, it’s a tough call.
Update: SEGA also has a bunch of games on sale for 99 cents, including Altered Beast, ChuChu Rocket (also for iPad), and Super Monkey Ball 2.
