Games and Fold: Retro Arcade

Five new games: Hotel Lift, Balloon Post, Goal Keeper, Cheese Heist and Pier Pinball. Signal Yard is free, and every other game has one free run.

A shelf of original pocket LCD games in one app, made for folding. Games and Fold turns your iPhone into an electronic game from the golden age of LCD handhelds: a metal faceplate, chunky keys that click, a screen of ghosted segments that blink and beep, and a clock that keeps time while you're not playing.

Signal Yard is free to play, and every other game has one free run to try. One purchase unlocks every game for good: no ads, no subscription.

Every game is a little device of its own, with its own colors and printed faceplate: • Signal Yard: route cargo pods to the dock that matches their symbol. • Moon Courier: jump rocks, duck under arches and switch lanes on the Moon. • Reef Relay: steer a little sub to fetch a capsule before the battery runs flat. • Lantern Line: watch the lanterns light up, then repeat the order. • Circuit Sweep: turn the pipes until the lamp lights. • Cake Tower: drop each layer dead on and stack a six-tier cake. • Twin Bridges: lift two drawbridges for the boats and lower them for the cars. • Plate Spinner: keep the plates spinning on their poles before they wobble off. • Frog Chorus: press along with four singing frogs, right on the beat. • Frost Fisher: hook fish through the ice and pull the line up before the pike bites. • Hotel Lift: run the lift, let the guests in and drop each one at their floor before they lose patience. • Balloon Post: fly the mail balloon over the rooftops and drop letters down the chimneys. • Goal Keeper: read the striker's run-up and save penalties, high and low. • Cheese Heist: tiptoe to the cheese and freeze before the cat opens its eyes. • Pier Pinball: keep the ball in play on the pier and light all three stars for a second ball.

Every game has two modes with separate high scores, a short instruction booklet you try out on the real keys, three misses before game over, and a bonus every 300 points.

Made for folding. Hold your iPhone Duo sideways to browse the collection. Turn it upright and half-fold it, and the game opens like a little clamshell: the screen on top, the controls below. Close it and keep playing on the outer display. If a fold moves the screen, or you close the device, Games and Fold pauses and counts you back in, so a fold never costs you a life. Leave it standing on your desk and it shows the time.

Plays on any iPhone, too: sideways to browse, upright to play. Works offline, no Wi-Fi needed. No account, no ads, no tracking.