Free iPhone and iPad games: Panic Springs, Smashing Planets

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Panic Springs is an Atari 2600-style retro platformer in which you navigate procedural landscapes using your spring-loaded legs and a propeller backpack.

In true retro fashion, Panic Springs features 1-bit sprites, oscillator sounds, and scanline graphics. It does also feature newer modern features, though, such as Game Center and Retina display support.

Will Smith may have showed them who's boss in Independence Day, and David Duchovny may have kicked their asses in Evolution, but those pesky aliens are back for another slice of human pie.

That's where you come in. In order to save your planet from destruction, you have to blow the invaders' UFOs to smithereens by drawing the trajectory of earth's defences onto your device's screen.

There are no fewer than 16 levels to defend your way through, and "super massive bosses" to defeat.