You can now play all those old iPod games, if you still have an iPod
Before the iPhone, Apple took a shot at making the iPod a device that could do more than just play music. Amongst it: playing games.1 If you find yourself feeling nostalgic for that era, you can now revisit those classic games designed for the iPod—it just takes jumping through a few hoops, as Ars Technica’s Kyle Orland reports:
Now that the consolidated clickwheel game collection is complete, though, owners of any iPod 5G+ or iPod Nano 3G+ should be able to sync the complete library to their personal device completely offline, without worrying about any server checks from Apple. They can do that by setting up a Virtual Machine using these GitHub instructions or by downloading this torrented Internet Archive collection and creating their own Virtual Machine from the files contained therein.
The project has recently added the last missing game, Real Soccer 2009, to the archive, so it’s now complete. Apple has in the past revived one of those old games, but I wouldn’t be holding my breath for the rest of them to resurface in the App Store anytime soon.
- Apple cares about games! ↩