100 awesome games for the battered old iPhone or iPad you inherited this Christmas

Christmas is a time for sliding the lids off gleaming white iPad boxes and reverently peeling protective films from pristine screens.

But it's also a time for less fortunate souls to inherit scratched, battered, overstuffed old iOS devices from higher status family members.

For those poor weaklings, we've compiled a handy list of great games that came out during or before 2012, and therefore will run on Apple devices that are sliding into obsolescence. 

Merry Christmas!

	Angry Birds Star Wars - Rovio - 79p  Star Wars-themed take on the epochal casual game.
	Anomaly Korea - 11bit - 79p  Technically impressive tower defence in reverse.
	Async Corp. - Powerhead Games - 79p  Utterly addictive, original, and loveable puzzler.
	Bad Piggies - Rovio - 79p  Angry Birds from the pigs' point of view. Sort of.
	Bastion - Warner Bros. - 79p  Top notch touchscreen port of the acclaimed RPG.
	Broken Sword: Director's Cut - Revolution - £3.99  One of the best point and click adventures ever made.
	Call of Duty: Zombies - Activision - £3.99  Surprisingly good multiplayer shooter for touchscreens.
	Candy Crush Saga - King - Free  Notorious free-to-play monster, but surprisingly good.
	Carcassonne - TheCodingMonkeys - £7.99  Excellent empire-building boardgame on iPad.
	Catcha Catcha Aliens! - Hotsauce - Free  Ace casual game from the mind of Jonathan Ross.
	Chrono Trigger - Square Enix - £3.99  Indifferent port of a bonafide classic J-RPG.
	Clash of Clans - Supercell - Free  The pre-eminent free-to-play social multiplayer game.
	Cut the Rope - ZeptoLab - £1.49   Adorable puzzler about feeding sweets to a monster.
	DrawRace 2 - Redlynx - £2.29  Innovative touchscreen-friendly take on racing.
	Edge Extended - Mobigame - £2.29  Formerly beleaguered isometric action puzzler.
	Fieldrunners 2 - Subatomic Studios - £2.29  Charming and accessible tower defence classic.
	Blood of the Zombies - Tin Man Games - £1.49  Marvellous facelift for choose-your-own-adventures
	Final Fantasy IV - Square Enix - £5.99  See "Chrono Trigger"
	Final Freeway 2R - Newtype - 79p  Slick and faithful modern take on OutRun.
	Flick Kick Football - Sidhe Interactive - £1.49  Clever, tactile casual game that popularised flicking.
	Flight Control HD - EA - £3.99  This ingenious line-drawing classic works best on iPad.
	Forget-Me-Not - Nyarlu Labs - £1.49  Ingenious, stylish, and artsy take on Pac-Man.
	Galaxy on Fire 2 - Fishlabs - Free  Ambitious and epic space trading game.
	Game Dev Story - Kairosoft - £3.99  The original and best wacky Kairosoft strategy gem.
	Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - Capcom - Free  Excellent port of a Phoenix Wright-esque cult classic.
	GTA: Chinatown Wars - Rockstar - £3.99  Top-down GTA with an ace drug-dealing meta-game.
	GTA: Vice City - Rockstar - £3.99  Indisputably the best of the noughties 3D GTA games.
	Groove Coaster - Taito - 79p   Sexy minimalist rhythm-action game.
	Hypership Out of Control - Fun Infused - 79p  Classic arcade action done by clever indie developers
	I Dig It Expeditions - InMotion - £2.29  Addictive spiritual ancestor to Steamworld Dig.
	iBlast Moki 2 - Godzilab - £2.29  Mostly immaculate bomb-themed puzzler.
	Incoboto - Fluttermind - £2.99  Beautiful and charming heliocentric puzzler.
	Infinity Blade - Chair Entertainment - 79p  Visually splendid gesture-based fighting game.
	Jetpack Joyride - Halfbrick - 79p  Frenetic and addictive casual action game.
	Kingdom Rush - Ironhide - Free  Conventional but immaculate tower defence game.
	Knights of Pen & Paper - Paradox North - £3.99  Charming take on pen and paper tabletop gaming.
	Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 - Warner - £1.49  Just another lovely TT Lego game, but on mobile.
	LostWinds 2 - Frontier - £2.99  Polished puzzle-platformer from the creator of Elite
	Machinarium - Amanita Design - £3.99  Utterly adorable hand-drawn point-and-click adventure.
	Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint - Zee 3 - Free  Clever and fiendishly addictive puzzler.
	McPixel - Sos - £2.29  Like WarioWare if WarioWare was a puzzle game.
	Micro Miners - BonusLevel.org - £1.49  Unique mix of Lemmings and Where's My Water?
	Need for Speed: Most Wanted - EA - £3.99  Polished high octane racing on your mobile.
	New Star Soccer - New Star Games - Free  Super smart and addictive free-to-play football game.
	Organ Trail: Director's Cut - The Men... - £2.29   Amusing zombie-themed retro take on Oregon Trail.
	Peggle Classic - PopCap - 79p  Hugely popular videogame pachinko.
	Pizza Vs. Skeletons - Riverman Media - £3.99  Zany action game with a huge variety of stages.
	Plague Inc. - Ndemic Creations - 79p  Strategy game about trying to kill everybody.
	Plants vs Zombies - PopCap - 79p  Excellent lane-based casual defence game.
	Pocket Planes - NimbleBit - Free  Charming ultra casual free-to-play game.
	Prince of Persia Classic - Ubisoft - £1.49  Well-judged update to the classic platformer.
	Punch Quest - Rocketcat - Free  Ill-fated but brilliant casual arcade game.
	Puzzle Quest 2 - Bandai Namco - £2.29  Influential mash-up of puzzle game and RPG.
	Random Heroes - Ravenous Games - Free  Impressive and slick pixel-art platform-shooter.
	Rayman Jungle Run - Ubisoft - Free  Super-smart mobile version of Ubisoft's classic series.
	Real Racing 2 - EA - £3.99  Visually splendid and playable arcade racer.
	Reckless Racing 2 - Pixelbite - £1.49  Pretty and fun top-down racer with drifting.
	Retro Racing - Mr Qwak Limited - £1.49  Simplistic but mechanically perfect racer.
	Robot Unicorn Attack - Adult Swim - 79p  Exuberant high score chaser complete with Erasure.
	Saturday Morning RPG - Joystick Labs - Free   Solid RPG stuffed with knowing '80s references.
	Score! World Goals - First Touch Games - Free  Relive a number of glorious moments in football.
	Sentinel 3: Homeworld - Origin8 - 79p  High quality early tower defence game.
	Shantae: Risky's Revenge - WayForward - Free   Well-made port of a well-made DS platformer.
	Sid Meier’s Pirates! - 2K - £2.29  Top quality port of a vast and innovative classic.
	Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders - Atypical - £3.99  Accessible and technically impressive WWII flight sim
	Skylanders Lost Islands - Activision - Free  Loveable and astute free-to-play game based on toys.
	Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing - Sega - £2.99  Flawless port of Sega's triumphal kart racer.
	Sonic CD - Sega - £2.29  Faultless port of arguably the best Sonic platformer.
	Space Invaders Infinity Gene - Taito - £1.49  Super-slick and stylish update of Space Invaders.
	Space Miner - Venan Entertainment - £2.99  Mine stuff in space, upgrade your gear, do it again.
	SpellTower - Zach Gage - £1.49  Tasteful letter puzzle from an acclaimed developer.
	Spider: Secret of Bryce Manor - Tiger Style - 79p  Creepy action game with an intriguing story.
	Splice: Tree of Life - Cipher Prime - £2.99  Stylish puzzler based on manipulating genes.
	Street Fighter IV - Capcom - £3.99   The '90s arcade cabinet crammed into your phone.
	Street Fighter X Tekken Mobile - Capcom - £2.29  Capcom's best brawler adapted perfectly to mobile.
	Super Crate Box - Vlambeer - £1.49  Frenetic, difficult, and oft-copied arcade masterpiece.
	Super Monsters Ate My Condo! - Adultswim - Free  Surreal, funny, and polished casual puzzler
	Sword & Sworcery - Capybara Games - £3.99  Beautiful, mercurial pixel-art adventure.
	Temple Run: Brave - Disney - £1.49  Polished 3D endless runner with a Brave theme.
	The Big Big Castle! - Beep Games - 79p  Frustrating but compelling casual architecture sim.
	The Journey Down - SkyGoblin - £3.99  Well-written and tightly constructed adventure game.
	The King of Fighters-i 2012 - SNK - £2.29  Generous mobile brawler for genre enthusiasts.
	The Lords of Midnight - Chilli Hugger - £2.99   Well-considered iOS port of an ages-old classic.
	The Room - Fireproof Games - Free  One of the biggest and best puzzle games on mobile.
	The Sims 3 - EA - £4.99  Live vicariously though small people on your phone.
	The Walking Dead: The Game - Telltale - £14.99  Utterly devastating adventure game about zombies.
	The World Ends with You - Square Enix - £13.49  Reassuringly expensive port of the acclaimed JRPG.
	Ticket to Ride - Days of Wonder - £2.29  Brilliant mobile version of a brilliant boardgame.
	Tiny Wings - Andreas Illiger - 79p  Inventive and hugely successful casual game.
	Tongue Tied! - Mojo Bones - 79p  Very strange but undeniably polished platformer.
	Total War Battles: Shogun - Sega - £1.49  Stripped down version of the respected franchise.
	Trainyard - Matt Rix - 79p  Ingenious train-based puzzler from a celebrated dev.
	Triple Town - Spry Fox - Free  A cute match-three puzzler with a killer hook.
	True Skate - True Axis - £1.49  Polished and playable sim made for touchscreens.
	Virtua Tennis Challenge - Sega - £3.99  The gold standard tennis sim, but on a mobile.
	Waking Mars - Tiger Style - 79p  Explore Mars in this unbelievably likeable game.
	Where's My Water? - Disney - £1.49  Surprisingly inventive, unsurprisingly polished.
	World of Goo - 2D BOY - £3.99  Making bridges with goo is as fun as it sounds.
	Worms Crazy Golf - Team17 - £1.49  An obvious and perfect use of the Worms licence.
	Zen Bound 2 - Secret Exit - £2.29  Meditative and beautiful proto-touchscreen puzzler.