Pac-Man gobbles up Android downloads

Mike Bantick
Tuesday, 16 December 2008 02:36

Your IT - Entertainment

In a continuing trend, it looks as if people are purchasing new phones to play games.

We already know that whiling away the minutes to hours playing games on mobile devices is a popular past time.

And increasingly it seems, the mobile devices are smart phones such as the Apple iPhone or Android based T Mobile G1.

According to medialets the top Android based application downloads, with over 250,000 is the classic Namco arcade game remake of Pac-Man. Wucka-Wucka.

The full top 10 applications based on downloads, comments and average rating are:

Application	Catagory	Downloads	Comments	Average Rating
1. Pac-Man	Arcade & Action Games	250,000 +	6,975	4.5
2. MySpace Mobile	Social	50,000-250,000	5,897	3.5
3. The Weather Channel	News & Weather	50,000-250,000	4,740	4.5
4. ShopSavvy	Shopping	50,000-250,000	4,698	4.5
5. Ringdroid	Multimedia	50,000-250,000	3,935	4.5
6. imeem Mobile	Multimedia	50,000-250,000	3,798	4.0
7. Shazam	Multimedia	50,000-250,000	3,134	4.5
8. Rings Extended	Tools	50,000-250,000	3,093	3.5
9. Bonsai Blast	Casual Games	50,000-250,000	3,092	4.0
10. Brain Genius Deluxe	Brain & Puzzle Games	50,000-250,000	2,952	4.0