Touchgrind BMX was awesome, and I actually reviewed that one myself back in July of 2011.
This time they were trading in the skateboard for a bike with Touchgrind BMX, and also trading in the top-down camera view for a much more player-friendly 3rd-person perspective. It would be more than two years before Illusion Labs announced a follow-up to Touchgrind in May of 2011. It was more a digital toy than a full-blown game. While it was a stunning demonstration of multi-touch and what could be possible on the touchscreen of an iOS device, it was also very awkward to play due to its strictly top-down camera view.
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The Touchgrind series has expanded and evolved since that time in 2008.
So, thanks, Touchgrind? You’re sort of responsible for that in a weird way. And of course that eventually led to me writing for TouchArcade and it becoming my full-time job for more than ten years now. This also meant that I became even more of a hardcore iOS game-a-haulic, becoming very active on the TouchArcade forums and buying new games on a daily basis. It wouldn’t launch for another couple of months or so, but at least I was ready for it with my shiny new iPod touch. Well anyway, being a skateboarder for most of my life, I absolutely had to have Touchgrind. I still remember the gigantic smile I had plastered on my face as I unboxed that bad boy in the Best Buy parking lot and fired it up. That day also happened to be the same day Apple released the 2nd generation iPod touch, and I cruised over to Best Buy on my lunch hour and snatched one up. I read it religiously everyday at work, and it was when they posted the first trailer for the original Touchgrind on September 9th, 2008 that I finally broke down. By the fall of 2008 I had discovered TouchArcade as my go-to source for everything to do with iOS gaming, both its front page stories and its forums that were teeming with activity back then. Perhaps even the force of a light breeze. I no longer needed a push, I just needed a nudge.
Despite not even owning an iOS device I was following along closely with the App Store’s launch lineup of games and I knew it was just a matter of time before I caved. Well, when Apple opened up the App Store alongside the launch of the iPhone 3G in July of 2008, my desire for an iOS device was at a fever pitch. When Apple released the iPod touch a few months later I definitely considered it, but again it was a lot of money and I just couldn’t bring myself to pull the trigger. I wanted one, but I couldn’t afford it and I was locked into my Verizon contract and it was just one of those unobtainable things at the time. You see, I didn’t buy the original iPhone when it launched in June of 2007. I have a really personal relationship to the Touchgrind series from developer Illusion Labs.
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