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Darned if I don’t hear the Tetris theme song playing in my head, because I most certainly do when I look at Parkinglot, a simple game that you can find on your iPhone. Well, to be honest, the Tetris theme plays a lot in my head whenever I get a game for the iPhone – after all, puzzle games are fairly easy to design and thus, there are a large number of them running around.

Parkinglot is one of those successful puzzle games, for any number of reasons. One of the finest reasons for its success is that it fulfills what a puzzle should do – make you feel like you’re busy and in the process, burn off some extra time during a break or if you’re waiting for someone. Parkinglot makes what is a horrendous and irritating experience into a game on the iPhone, one that a lot of people around the world find fun.

With four hundred and fifty scenarios and puzzles to work through to get your brave little car out the exit, you can bet that you’ll find your money and your time’s worth. It seems simple on paper and onscreen – you need to guide your Mr. Bean yellow car out of a jam packed, well, parking lot. The thing is, like real life, whenever you do something someone does something too. What they do could easily be good for your or bad for you, which forms the heart of the game.

You don’t need to know much more than that – it sums out the concept of a very simple, user and beginner friendly game that can consume endless hours. It could even become sort of a hobby – you could spend hours attacking a single puzzle with your yellow car and yet never make the least number of moves that you could as like golf, doing the least amount of work and getting the job done anyway is the objective of the game.

Even if you’re no gaming perfectionist, four-hundred or so levels can really eat up a person’s time, especially if you take a particular liking to this game. Parkinglot finds its success in its potential playtime coupled with the ninety-nine cent price tag – cheap and lots of playtime? Definitely a successful combination.