“To a certain strata of gamers — those who owned an Amiga in the early nineties — Pinball Dreams is legendary. So legendary, in fact, that I doubt any who currently own an iPhone or iPod Touch should need any more than the knowledge that a direct port of the title is now available to stump up the $5.99 it costs and envelop themselves in some truly nostalgic gaming.

Of course, there are many gamers out there to who the name means nothing, in which case a history lesson is required. Pinball Dreams is one of the first titles developed by Digital Illusions CE, who we now know as DICE — best known for the Battlefield series (and the recent Mirror’s Edge).”

Clumsily redundant naming aside, this is an essential iPhone/iPod Touch app. I’ve genuinely been playing this nearly non-stop – even when I have other gaming systems to hand.