Apple is beaming brightly these days due to their recent induction into the Guinness Book Of World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition for several different categories, including a few of their extremely trendy iPhone iOS games. These are the games that that put the iPhone in its proper place in the record books.

iPhone iOS Games In The Record Books

Apple knew what it was doing when it created a mobile phone with the ability to play games, and game developers hit a gold mine when they took the opportunity to create fantastic, fun, and addicting games for the iPhone. Here are the games that won a spot in the Guinness Book Of World Records 201 Gaming Edition:

Angry Birds

Angry Birds is named as the Top Paid-For App Store Game in Most Countries. This is a simple, fun, and addicting game that has spawned and entire franchise. The object of the game is to use a slingshot to propel birds of various sizes into the air so that they crash into various structures and kill the roly-poly pigs that stole their eggs.

Plants vs. Zombies

Plants vs. Zombies is named the Fastest-Selling iPhone/iPod Strategy Game. There were more than 300,000 paid downloads of this game within the first 9 days of its release. It’s priced at a small $2.99 but earned the developer, PopCap, an easy $1 million in about a week.

Tap Tap Revenge

Tap Tap Revenge is named the Most Popular iPhone Game Series. This is a series of music rhythm games that have been downloaded more than 15 million times since its release in 2008, with about 32% of all iPhone and iPad users having it installed.

Frotz

Frotz is the first Text Adventure Engine designed for iPhone. This is the precursor to modern graphic adventures, which uses many of the same modes of gameplay as their more appealing progeny. Frotz was the first app that allows players to experience these game relics on a cell phone.

Enigmo

Enigmo is the first physics-based puzzle game for the iPhone. This game demonstrates how game developers could exploit the iPhone multi-touch screen, with having a liquid storage game.

iPhone iOS games are an integral part of the iPhone, which is obviously used for more than just making phone calls. This is the start of a new trend in portable gaming systems that are only just beginning to surface. Let’s keep an eye out and see what happens next!