Does anyone out there remember spending hours at an arcade? I can’t even begin to tell you how much time I used to spend on the weekends at the arcade by my parents house! In those days I would feed the change machine all the money I had to play video games against complete strangers. Cipher Prime Studios has brought me back a few years with their new retro arcade game Intake: Be Aggressive for iPad. Spend some time popping pills in this highly addictive game, except these pills have no warning disclaimers, devastating side effects, or require you to take them with a full glass of water.

Intake is a fast paced arcade style game now available for the iPad. Multitouch is required to succeed so plant your iPad on a flat surface and use both hands. Colored pills drop from the top of the screen and players must bust the correctly colored pills in order to advance. Don’t let the wrong pills hit the bottom of the screen or you’ll ingest a lethal overdose—game over. Levels get progressively harder and players will get addicted quickly.

Cipher Prime Studios will have you reaching for the volume button to turn the music up or down since the music in Intake is dubstep influenced. You can unlock other tracks but it requires players spend 20,000 mg (points) just to get the first new song. In the meantime, you’re going to hear the same song over and over and over again, which can get a little annoying. There are in-app purchases available, but they’re not needed to succeed at this fast paced and highly addictive game.

Features:

• Classic Arcade Shooter: From its aspect ratio to its fast-paced gameplay, Intake is directly inspired by classic arcade shooters and SHMUPs with just a hint of FPS love.
• Achievements: Over 70 finely tuned achievements that will teach even the most seasoned player new tricks. These are not
  your typical progress-only achievements.
• Challenge Modes: Acceleration, Minefield, Reaction, and Flood modes will challenge every aspect of how you play.
• Gameplay Changing Features: Grab vitamins while you play and trade them in for intense game upgrades. You can even turn the game into a SHMUP if you show your skills.
• Dubstep Soundtrack: Infinite wubs. Classy ones.
• High Scoreboard and Game Stats: Keep track of your high scores and other gameplay statistics.
• Colorblind Modes: Intake offers colorblind modes for players with deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia.

If you’re looking to check out a new app that reminds you of plunking down quarters at the arcade, which is probably now out of business, Intake is just what you need; it will bring back some memories. It’s available for $2.99 in the iOS App Store for iPad, but use caution it’s highly addictive. No word yet if Intake will find its way onto the iPhone though.

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