I’ll tell you what’s missing from most iPhone pinball games. No, it’s not the tactile pleasure you get from pressing buttons and flipping actual pins. It’s metal. Fortunately, there’s Slayer Pinball Rocks HD, available now for iPhone and iPad. The game includes music from Slayer’s latest album, World Painted Blood, voice recordings from bassist and vocalist Tom Araya, rhythm-based mini-games and, to quote Slayer’s website, “a pinball environment straight out of your worst nightmare.”

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Ngmoco isn’t pandering to the 3GS-and-earlier crowd for Eliminate: Gun Range, the first game I’ve seen that’s specifically for iPhone 4, which launches Thursday. The game is a target shootout with 12 high-fidelity weapons and 3 shooting ranges with 144 challenges. According to TouchArcade, Eliminate: Gun Range uses iPhone 4′s gyroscope for more accurate aiming. Real Racing, out already for existing iPhones, also uses the iPhone 4′s gyroscope.

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A dollar can get you some pretty mediocre iPhone games, but today and tomorrow are different. For the next two days, Electronic Arts is having a sale on 17 iPhone games, more than half of which have never been priced this low.

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I just spent $30 on 100 business cards, and while I’m satisfied with how they turned out I can’t help but feel a twinge of regret after hearing about this free Space Invaders themed e-business card for the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad at Tiny Cartridge. Everyone seems to have at least one iSomething now, so it might be a good idea to download this anyway. The app is customizable, so you can have some fun crafting the perfect business card. And everyone likes bumping electronic devices together, so there’s that too. You can download the app here.

[via Tiny Cartridge]

I may be a little late to the iParty (har), but I was thrilled when I heard from a friend that the original Dragon’s Lair is available in the app store. Admittedly Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp was more my thing. The original was pretty tough, and I was very young. But the sequel got my tokens every week. I could beat the entire game on one credit. I still have fond memories of guiding a shrunken Dirk the Daring across Beethoven’s grand piano avoiding the composer’s hungry cat, and finding the secret golden objects required to finish the game. Those were the days. Though I prefer the sequel (get on that, EA!) I can’t pass up the chance to play an amazing port of an ahead-of-its-time animated experience.

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Let’s face it: A decade or more of honing your first-person shooter skills won’t teach you jack about real-life firearms, and I’m willing to wager that most gamers have never wielded one. Gun Disassembly 3D, a $0.99 game out now for the iPhone, is still as far-removed from real guns as it gets, but it will teach you the minutia of taking a firearm apart piece-by-piece, just in case you ever find yourself in that scene from Forrest Gump.

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I don’t purport to have a finger on the pulse of youth culture, but I hope the kiddies appreciate the retro stylings of Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion! (Exclamation mark theirs). The side-scrolling beat-em-up game is out now for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, for $4.99. In 8-Bit Rebellion!, players must bring down Pixxelkorp, a ruthless corporation whose penchant for high-definition graphics could ruin gaming. Music from the band, both regular and chiptuned, are integrated into the game, and beating the game gives you exclusive access to an unreleased track, “Blackbirds,” recorded specifically for the game.

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SkiFree has just arrived on the iPhone, and it’s sure to suck away all your spare time if you have any sense of nostalgia. The original game was created in the early 1990s by Microsoft programmer Chris Pirih, and released as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows 3.1. You play an unnamed skiier who zips down the mountain while avoiding trees, rocks and other obstacles. There are also jumps you can hit, allowing you to perform mid-air flips for extra points. So simple, and yet surprisingly easy to get lost in.

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The nice thing about iPhone games, like the newly released Street Fighter IV, is that the hype cycle is so short. We only heard about Street Fighter IV for the iPhone less than a month ago, and now it’s here for $9.99. But you’re probably wondering how it plays, what with the lack of physical buttons, and your thumbs taking up some of that valuable screen real estate. I’ve got two conflicting opinions for you.

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