You have to choices if you want to download games for your iPod, you can download them straight from Apple website or many other websites. Many of them are free to download but you may find some that are not.
Cake Mania 3 is a game you can download from Apple website. In this game you will find out that Jill Evans, a game character, learns that the key to fix the time bender is her cake baking. You must guide the character through 6 historical eras that have more than 80 levels: the ancient Egypt, China's pre-Communist, France, fantastic future, medieval England, Forbidden City and Jurassic period. Jill has to serve drinks and cakes in each period so she has a lot of different customers, like: Robin Hood, Napoleon, Egyptian gods and dinosaurs.
The idea of the game is to save of the wedding guest that have somehow hot stuck in a different time period and to do that Jill has to serve in every time period, good service means good tips, good tips means that Jill can buy better equipment to make better cakes and to make them faster to because as Jill travels through time you will se that the orders became more complex and she needs to gave some gadgets: for example a TV with which Jill can distract customers mind and make them forget about the time they have been waiting.
For each time period Jill completes, she saves a wedding guest and returns him to the present. Some tricks and tips for you to complete this game faster: you have a better tip if you serve the customers faster. Every customer has a satisfaction level; you will se that in this game the satisfaction of the customers is measured in hearts. If you serve your customers fast you will see that the numbers of hearts in the satisfaction level increases, and if you take a long time to serve them the number of hearts decreases.
Another game you can download for your iPod is Chess and Backgammon. The chess is a game well-known all around the world and if you like to play it, then this game is for you.
This game is a competition between human players or between a computer. You have rotating 3D or static 2D board views, a lot of difficulty levels and many visual themes you can choose from. This game is able to track historical statistics; you have the option to complete with commentary, to view classic matches or to enter in quiz mode. The last one 10 puzzle for you to solve and you can make a high score it you have the right answer in a short time.
If you select the commentary option, this function will help improve your game if you know something about chess and if you don't you can always ask the computer to help with advice while you are playing.
If you want to switch to Backgammon game you can do that without reloading or quitting the game. If you don't know anything about this game or how to play it and the rules of it, you have the possibility to have a tournament against an opponent controlled by the computer or you can a quick game. This game has 3 levels or difficulty: a beginner level, an intermediate level and a championship level. It is also very customizable because you have 6 visual themes you can choose from: wood, vintage, mechano, fancy leather, elegant leather, classic and magnetic. The game is very simply to play and easy to use.
Zuma is another game you can play it on your iPod. Zuma is all about the colored balls and the aim of Zuma is to prevent those colored balls from reaching the skull. You can do that is to shoot the colored balls with the help of a frog. The balls can disapper if you 3 of them in the same color. You can use the click wheel from your iPod to have 360 degree motion control. This game is easy to play and is very entertaining, the graphic is good and to get the Aztec kind of ambiance the music helps a lot.
Mini Golf is a game published by Electronic Arts Inc. The graphics of the game are really good, the music is very relaxing. You have 3 options of playing: Pass and Play, Practice hone and Single Player.
Brain Challenge is a game published by Gamelost S.A; the game lets you choose your personal coach, it can be Prof. Steven or Dr. Hurley. These game characters will ask you some questions, will give you puzzle to make and the goal of the game is to answer as many questions you can and resolve as many puzzle as you can because at the end of the game the character you have chosen will tell you how much of your brain you are using. If you like puzzle this game is great for you but don't forget that is just a game and the usage of the brain at the end of the game is not relevant.
If you know the Bejeweled game you should know that you can get a 3D version of it on your iPod and the name of the game is Cubis 2. The easiest way to describe it that you will have to make chains of 3 or more identical cubes and the goal is to clear the game board of all the cubes. This is the only way to move to the next level. It is fun, addictive and simple and you have about 300 levels to resolve.
These are some games you can play and download on your iPod and by surfing the Internet you can find many more.