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Where's Waldo? At the top of the iPhone charts
Never ever underestimate the power of nostalgia -- just ask Nintendo or Capcom. FingerGaming's list of the top-grossing iPhone/iPod Touch apps reveals Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey is outselling Call of Duty: World at War Zombies, which held the top spot for three weeks. To put this in perspective: some world-traveling goof who blends into a crowd with the ease of a fully-trained CIA operative is beating out a game with Call of Duty and Zombies in its title. That is a skill. EA's iPhone port of Dragon's Lair took the third spot. Actually, EA is doing well on the iPhone, as Tetris, The Sims 3, Need for Speed Undercover and Monopoly also made the top ten list. EA is also having a major sale right now on iPhone games, so that might be helping a bit. [Via Gamasutra]
Where's Waldo? On Wii, DS, PC, and Mac this September
Finally, for those of us waiting since 1992's The Great Waldo Search for a new console Waldo-finding adventure, Ubisoft has released the first details and screens of Ludia's Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey, coming out on Wii, DS, PC, and Mac in September. iPhone, originally announced as one of the platforms, is conspicuously absent from the list.The Fantastic Journey allows one or more players to search not just for Waldo, but for his friends and other items. The multiplayer mode features power-ups that shake opponents' screens or cover them in paint, freeze the search window, or enhance items on your own screen.The first screens, available in our gallery, show the Wii version. We have to wonder at whom these are targeted: kids aren't going to remember, or even know, Where's Waldo, and the concept of just looking for a guy in a picture is kind of laughable now that the fad is over. Does that mean that this is intended to serve adults' Where's Waldo nostalgia? Is there such a thing?%Gallery-68104%
