Classic games a hit in app charts

LONDON, UK: Classic console and board games have been filling stockings for decades, but this year they took the app charts by storm in the week after Christmas too.

Topping both the iPhone and iPad paid-for charts was FIFA 12 by EA Sports, based on one of the best-loved football video games for game consoles and computers.

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Legendary gaming character Sonic the Hedgehog - which put game developer Sega on the map in the 1990s - climbed to the top of the free listings, coming first in both the free iPhone and iPad charts with the Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing app.

Sonic also made it into the paid-for lists, with the Sonic the Hedgehog app coming third in the iPhone chart and ninth in the iPad chart.

Crime role-play game Grand Theft Auto III, based on a controversial video game which has been criticised for its graphic violence, charted fourth in the paid-for iPhone chart and sixth in the paid-for iPad chart.

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Traditional board games also did well, with Scrabble coming in second, Monopoly third and Trivial Pursuit fifth in the paid-for iPad chart.

Angry Birds, the best-selling iPhone app in 2011, retained a foothold in every listing and charted second in the iPhone paid-for chart.

(SOURCE: UK PressAssociation)