Clickwheel Games
About
Click Wheel games were games you could play on your iPod. These games were unique in that they are not able to be played on devices other than iPods. There were pre-installed games, and then there were extra games that could be bought and installed from the clickwheel games store found within iTunes. The clickwheel games store was closed in 2011, thus preventing any new purchases of these games.
Most of these extra (not pre-installed) game files have been lost to time, and this page serves to help give the current status of what is lost and what is found. It also list what games have been cracked. Back in (date required) a group of iPod Modders successfully cracked a portion of the available clickwheel games that were able to be played with the use of a custom version 1.2 firmware for the 5th and 5.5 generation iPod Video.
Today, there are still efforts being made to crack any uncracked copies still existent. For example, version 1.3 was successfully patched for use with the game hack by user xLinka. This allows the cracked clickwheel games to run on the last firmware release for the iPod video (5/5.5). There are also individuals looking for people with their original game files and the iTunes accounts used to purchase them. Anyone with those two things can continue to sync games for their iPods, but that number continues to dwindle. Most people do not check their iPods to see if there are game files left on them, and thus many game files are deleted when people wipe and restore their iPods.
At the end of this wiki entry are some resources for further reading and watching.
Cickwheel Games
Default (Preinstalled)
Available on iPod video w/ cracked firmware
Bejeweled
Cubis 2
iQuiz
Lost
Mahjong
Mini Golf
Ms. Pac-Man
Musika
Pac-Man
Royal Solitaire
SAT Prep 2008 (Math)
SAT Prep 2008 (Reading)
SAT Prep 2008 (Writing)
Sudoku
Tetris
Texas Hold'Em
The Sims Bowling
The Sims Pool
Vortex
Zuma
Archived (Uncracked)
Asphalt 4: Elite Racing
Bomberman
Brain Challenge
Bubble Bash
Cake Mania 3
Chalkboard Sports Baseball
Chess & Backgammon
Chinese Checkers
Crystal Defenders
CSI: Miami
Lode Runner
Monopoly
Mystery Mansion Pinball
Naval Battle
Peggle
Phase
Pirates of the Caribbean: Aegir's Fire
Pole Position Remix
Real Soccer '09
Reversi
Scrabble
Slyder Adventures
Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes
Sonic the Hedgehog
Spore Origins
Star Trigon
Tamagotchi: 'Round the World
The Sims DJ
Tiger Woods PGA Tour
Trivial Pursuit
Uno
Wonder Blocks
Yahtzee
Misc Software
iQuiz Maker (Official Software for making custom iQuiz Quizzes and adding iQuiz Themes)
Resources
Game Archive
Archive.org link to all of the ipg files available: https://archive.org/details/ipod-click-wheel-games-archive
iPod Modding
Page for the publicly available modified firmware and still useable games: https://macjunkie.org/?p=705
Page to xLinka's GitHub page on how the 1.3 Patch was made: https://github.com/Xlinka/iPodReverseEngineering