Blog:Does Anyone remember iPod click wheel games?

Do any of you remember those little games that were on the old iPods? They were incuded in the iPods that had the click wheel which you use to control the games. I had and iPod Nano 5G, and it had 3 games built in. The first one was Klondike, which is just solitare, nothing else to say about the game here. The second one was Maze, where you use the built in gyroscope to control a ball and get out of the maze. The third one was Vortex, and it's actually one of my favorites. It's a Breakout/Arkanoid clone where you control the paddle in a circle with a click wheel and break all of the blocks, which some of you might already know if you've played Breakout or Arkanoid before. I never actually had the pleasure to get those games for the iPod because I was an obsessive Mario fan at the time. I didn't even know that you could get games for the iPod until years later. Some notable titles on the iPod that really caught my eye were Tetris, Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Bomberman, Zuma, Bejeweled, and even Sonic The Hedgehog of all things. From what I've read online, these games did not sell well and they were hard to develop. There was even a DRM for the iPod games where if you downloaded a game and lost the iPod that had the said game, you couldn't sync the game to the iPod unless a seperate purchase was made for the same item, because the game was linked to the device, not the account. They were introduced in 2006, and the last iPod game was released in 2009. They were taken off the iTunes store in 2011, due to the problems I've mentioned earlier. 54 known games exist for the iPod, but about 20 of them have been cracked, making it impossible to have all of the iPod games today. If any of you previously owned an iPod with the click wheel games, let me know in the comments.