A company named House of Anime is selling game knock-offs on Apple's App Store now for $0.99. They somehow managed to get around Apple's tight approval process to offer games called Pokemon Yellow, YuGiOh+ and Digimon+. Wow! If these huge names made it past Apple's filter, look for my Mass Effect 4 clone on the App Store next week.
The description for Pokemon Yellow says that it is "just like the original." Sure it is. While the only screenshot shows that it looks like Pokemon, the current review rating sits at 1.5 stars, with over 1,300 ratings bitching about how this App is a "scam" and a "waste of money." Several of the reviewers say that it doesn't even open.
Nice job, Apple.
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9:20 AM on 02.20.2012 | 
A friend made an app and he had to re-submit it twice.
"Oh, a Pokemon game not made by Nintendo but by some guy I've need heard of! Well, DURRHURHURHUR Pokemon on iPod, I'll buy it!"
"Wait, it doesn't work?! Why has Pokemon betrayed meeeeee?!?! Lol xD hbcnensud dbxj"
Yeah. This is part of the reason I hate Mobile games/gamers. Their stupidity.
Nobody messes with Pokemon. I hope Nintendo sue them like noone ever was.
It's pathetic Apple haven't learned their lesson by now and invested some of their ridiculous earnings into actually VETTING the content that gets put up properly...
The game is currently off the charts now, meaning that lessons have probably been learnt, but I'm the presentation of the game on the app store doesn't give away it's falsehood, meaning that I'm gonna assume that the demand for Pokemon games is the main reason for this sudden interest.
MOST INCRIMINATING OF ALL of course is the fact that you can't evolve Pikachu into Raichu in Pokemon Yellow, and you can't catch other Pikachus in the wild. You've gotta trade 'em.
Slightly ashamed of myself for noticing any of this.
If they put even pokemon red up, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
...
And yet awesome games like Sword & Poker disappear for unknown reasons, possibly from the developer going out of business. So many angers.
My previous theory is slowly, but surely, turning to shit.....
P.S. Didn't buy it, just tired of this garbage.
I even had a friend who once said "Wouldn't it be great If they'd re-release those old Mario games on PS2?", and he wasnt some sony fan with Nintendo-nostalgia. That was pure cluelessness.
The main issue is that Apple does not seem to do a good enough job of regulating their own marketplace.
It could almost be said that they essentially help facilitate fraud.
There are always the one or two that manage to slip past the radar for long enough, but given Apple's track record thus far, it seems more a case of lax approval process. I'm pretty sure Apple has to "approve" of the app in the first place before it can be hosted and found on their marketplace.
Even the lowly simple pawn shop has to run a check to make sure they're not accepting stolen goods.
Good job.
Yep, way to go Apple.