TSoccer-HD

Table football, the real thing: eight rods, one ball, and as many fingers as you can fit on the glass.

TSoccer-HD was the first foosball game on the iPad, published in the App Store's opening weeks in 2010. This is that same game. The code is the original, still hand-written Objective-C, brought forward to run properly on today's screens and today's iOS.

TWO TABLES

• Gravity — the table is dished, the way a real one is. The ball carries its own momentum, rolls back toward the middle when nothing touches it, and only moves because a player hit it. Every contact puts spin on it. Let it settle and it will sit there until somebody plays it.

• Classic — the 2010 ball, which keeps its pace and never settles. Still here, unchanged, for the game you remember.

PLAY IT LIKE THE TABLE

• Every rod moves independently. Take as many as your hands can reach — the table follows a finger on each one.

• One player against the machine, or two players around the same device.

• Link a side to its keeper's bar and run the whole team with one hand, or work all four rods yourself. Home and visitor are set separately.

• Drag a handle, lift your finger, carry on from where you left it — the rods do not snap back.

THE OPPONENT

• The original 2010 opponent is still here, playing the classic table exactly as it always did.

• Or play the new one, which reads the ball off the cushions, works out where it will arrive, and gets a rod there first. Easy, normal and hard.

• On the gravity table it plays the foosball move: one player rolls the ball across the rod, the next one strikes it.

HOW IT FEELS

• Real contact: a round ball against rounded feet, resolved as geometry rather than a table of fixed angles. A moving foot passes its swing to the ball, so a strike is not a bounce.

• Haptics on contact — the ball off a player, the ball off the cushion, a double pulse for a goal.

• Grip guides that show exactly how far each rod can travel.

• The buttons in the middle of the table fade while the ball is running, and come back the moment you pause.

SET IT UP YOUR WAY

• Game by time or by score

• Ball speed, four levels

• Music from your own library, with skip during play

• Sound on or off

• Show or hide the grass and the bars

• Full statistics, including a player list

• Settings remembered between games

• One app for iPhone and iPad

No accounts, no ads, no tracking, nothing collected. Just the table.