I crushed this Skrillex remix so hard I had a 99 percent even while I was taking screenshots. However, the game grew much more difficult thereafter.On the first full day after the iTunes App Store launched to change the world forever (not an exaggeration), a brand new music game called Tap Tap Revenge by was the top-ranked app in the store. This game let you play various songs, as dots representing their instrumental and vocal parts cascaded down three stripes towards the bottom of the screen. Our mission, which many of us chose to accept, was to tap those dots when they arrived near the bottom of the screen.It was like Guitar Hero without the console, television, plastic guitars, or cost.Tap Tap Revenge spawned one of the most popular franchises in iOS history, with several spin-offs such as dedicated versions for, and no fewer than three games based on Lada Gaga alone (, ), among many others. Tapulous was acquired by Disney about two years ago, after which the team churned out several popular iPhone games, although 2011 came and went without a single new Tap Tap Revenge game.Somehow, remained in the top five most popular games in iTunes for 2011, even though it had been released in November 2010.
While the likes of EA and Activision dithered over the future of their respective rhythm juggernauts, the tapping wares from the wizards at.