

With the app’s awesome sound effects, multiple modes and a collaborative option to play with friends and family, it’s no wonder it became so popular amongst people of all ages. This classic arcade game came out in 2010, and became a huge hit in the first few years that it was released, even hitting 300 million downloads in 2012. Fruit ninja made slicing fruit fun, easy to play and a little bit challenging. We all lived out our stealthy ninja dreams with this game. “He didn’t like how people became crazed with the game and believed people were ‘overusing it’ and creating an addiction,” Nguyen said in a twitter conversation with Kotaku. Sadly, it was taken down by the creator himself, Dong Nguyen, in the same year that the game really took off. This game challenged users to continue playing to beat the highest score and pushed users to compete against each other and against themselves.

It made its debut in 2013, and from there, grew in popularity for its unique difficulty. Flappy bird went viral in 2014, hitting the top spot on Apple’s app store. This simple, yet strangely addicting game had all of us glued to our screens. There were many Apple games that have become great classics. Back when none of us had wifi or data, we would pass time with the most addicting games on our phones, ipads, or anything we could get our hands on at that age. Key memories in most of our childhoods were found on the iPhone or iPad.
