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Top iPhone Game Apps: Scrabble, The Oregon Trail Compete in Paid Charts

Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games on the App Store, from Scrabble and The Oregon Trail to Cooking Academy and more.
[Sister site FingerGaming rounds up the week's most popular paid and free iPhone and iPod Touch games, as current on the iTunes App Store.] This week's top paid iPhone game titles on the App Store, as captured on August 30th 2010, are as follows: 1. Angry Birds ($0.99) 2. The Oregon Trail ($0.99) 3. Scrabble ($0.99) 4. Fruit Ninja ($0.99) 5. Jaws ($0.99) 6. Doodle Jump ($0.99) 7. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ($2.99) 8. Where's Waldo? ($0.99) 9. Fragger ($0.99) 10. Skee-Ball ($0.99) Halfbrick Studios' Monster Dash disappears from the charts after an impressive second-place debut last week. Gameloft's The Oregon Trail moves up to challenge Angry Birds in its absence, as EA claims third place after dropping Scrabble to 99 cents. Bytemark's adaptation of the classic film Jaws takes fifth in its debut week, as Fruit Ninja overtakes Doodle Jump for fourth place. Sega's Genesis-era platformer Sonic the Hedgehog 2 also finds chart success during a week-long sale, while Where's Waldo? beats Fragger and Skee-Ball for eighth place. Here are this week's top free applications: 1. Cooking Academy 2. Name That Movie Quizzle 3. Fit It! 4. A Doodle Fly: Fly to Mars 5. iStunt Reloaded 6. Creamy Ice 7. Fastar! 8. Chicktionary 9. iDestroy 10. Zombie Farm None of last week's top free downloads makes the cut in today's free app chart. Recent hits like Carnival Games Lite and iFighter 1945 are replaced by Fugazo's Cooking Mama clone Cooking Academy and Name That Movie Quizzle in this week's results. Paid apps like A Doodle Fly and Fastar! find chart success during limited-time free download promotions, while Playforge's FarmVille spoof Zombie Farm returns to the chart this week at tenth place.

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