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Once you pop, you can’t stop

Despite offering no tactile controls, iThings are fab for Whac-a-Mole games. The ability to frantically tap the screen, rather than using some kind of analogue ‘stick’ or ‘rodent’ to move a ‘hand’ shows that, yes, iOS works far better than other systems for some types of games. This is one of them.

In fact, Bubble Pets is the best of ‘them’ and by ‘them’, we mean ‘Whac-a-Mole games’. (Weren’t you paying attention? We’re only on the intro.) This is largely because instead of aping a fairground game or having you beat to death cartoon moles with a shovel, Bubble Pets instead tasks you with rapidly tapping on pixelated cartoon animals of all kinds, living in vibrant pixelated cartoon worlds.

No dogs allowed in Pixel Park. Monkeys are fine, though. And stars MUST BE ON A LEAD.

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Craig Grannell

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Dinosaur on the moon!

Do you like Whac-a-Mole games? Do you like DINOSAURS ON THE MOON? If your answers to these questions are ‘yes’ and ‘yes’ – or even ‘yes’ and ‘eh?’, come to that -  then download Bubble Pets. The game is a gloriously demented tap-based Whac-a-Mole-style reaction game, with amusingly chunky retro styling. And while the collision detection is occasionally a little suspect, that hasn’t stopped me spending a chunk of today prodding my device until GIANT MONKEY WAS DEFEATED.

My feet don't hardly make no sound, walking on the moon (because GIANT DINOSAUR HAS EATEN THEM *SAD FACE*)

Craig Grannell