With over 100,000 apps to weed through in the App Store, developers need to find some way to appeal to the masses; a hook or a gimmick, if you will. There's no shame in it, but they've got to do something to get you to check out their latest downloadable title, and one of the absolute best ways of attracting potential purchasers is by preying on their sense of nostalgia. If you yearn for a simpler, easier time, without all the hassles of the modern-day world, and you think it's best to live that out on your high-end, touch-enabled smart phone, then these apps are for you.
APPlicable: Nostalgia Edition
This week, we take a look at app updates of some of our favorite childhood toys.
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February 25, 2010
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Wooly Willy
Wooly Willy spans generations, and should be considered a childhood staple of anyone over the age of 20. Wooly Willy was a toy that allowed you to use a magnet to manipulate tiny metallic flakes to make funny faces on a cardboard face inside of a plastic shell. However, today Wooly Willy is an app that lets you use your finger to manipulate tiny virtual flakes to make funny faces out of you and your friends. The app includes many of the familiar Willy faces from years past, but it also lets you import your own pictures. And believe me, there's nothing as fun as giving your kitty a Fu Manchu. $0.99
Simpson's Arcade
Remember the four-player Simpsons arcade classic from Konami where you could play as each member of the cartoon family? Yeah, this isn't that, but it's probably as close as we're ever going to get to it. It's a side-scrolling beat-'em-up (at least partially) starring Homer on a quest for doughnuts. It may be missing the other members of the family as playable characters, but they're replaced with mini-games in an equally fair trade-off. (In case you couldn't tell, I was being sarcastic.) $4.99
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