Astro Pop, great mobile fun
You’ve never played Astro Pop? OMG! Where have you been living?
Jokes aside now, I didn’t know about this game either, until I stumbled upon its mobile version. After playing with it a bit(and felling in-love with the simple yet exciting gameplay), I made a small Google query and.. voilà..! To my not-so-big surprise, I learned that the game has always been a major hit, be it as an online flash version, PC game or console one.
Astro Pop Mobile is the mobile version of the uber-famous PopCap Games title. You know PopCap Games: they are the producers of some of the most-played games online(no, not WoW); they do simple yet extremely addictive and exciting titles, with great cute graphics and a very small learning curve; basically, the kind of family computer puzzles or arcade games with point-and-click or left-right basic commands; my favorite kind of games. You are bound to have heard of at least their major titles: Zuma, Bejeweled or Alchemy, for instance 
While the PC/Flash version boasts more colorful graphics and extra-spicy sound effects, the mobile version keeps the charm alive and, after all, allows you to play it on the go. Delivered by GluMobile, it has a pretty good implementation, although on my Sony-Ericsson v630i there are some minor quirks(the control is not smooth enough - in order to move, I have to keep pressing the direction keys - instead of holding them pressed); still I managed to play it for several hours without blinking, so I dare call it addictive and fun.
The concept? If you’ve never played the online, the PC or the XBOX version, let me introduce to you at least the mobile version: the game is somewhere at a cross of Tetris with Space Invaders and Puzzle Bubble/Bubble Bash: colored rows of blocks are coming down from the top, and your aim is to make them disappear: you grab(attract) one or more bricks from the upper rows, move and shoot them back at the colored bricks; the groups of at least four same-colored adjacent bricks disappear and bring you points.
Sounds too easy? The special/bonus items make the fun of the game: among the many, you have exploding bricks, poisonous bricks(they can’t be grabbed and the only way to make them disappear is to destroy neighboring blocks) - plus, they contaminate nearby block, so they spread over time… and many more; plus, my favorite - the Supa mode (once it charges, you get to shoot laser beams). There are plenty of cool surprises in the game, I won’t spoil the surprise.
All in all, it’s a beautiful game: colorful, exciting, easy-to-learn yet hard-to-master. Enjoy playing it!
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