Screenshots taken at the time, between 2010 and 2012 — the charts, the editors' picks,
the front pages. Nothing here is reconstructed, and every claim on this site traces back
to one of them.
January 2010#1 on Hacker NewsBefore the game had even shipped, the story reached the top of Hacker News — posted by a reader, not by us.April 2010App Store — New and NoteworthyApple's editors put the launch in New and Noteworthy, in the same row as Warpgate, IMO and Ozone.April 2010Apple's own iPad picksOn apple.com, Babylonian Twins HD led Apple's suggested games for the new iPad — listed above Mirror's Edge, Real Racing HD, Need for Speed Shift and Call of Duty.April 2010#8 · Top Paid iPad AppsEighth on the iPad's paid chart, four places below Plants vs. Zombies HD and two above Disney's JellyCar 2.April 2011#11 · Top Adventure Paid iPad AppsA year on, still selling: ahead of Brothers in Arms, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD, Modern Combat 2, N.O.V.A. 2 and Metal Gear Solid.January 2012#1 free game in GermanyTop of the German App Store's free iPad games chart — above Temple Run and Assassin's Creed Recollection. The Premium edition was free that week. On the same day in China it was #1 in both Action and Adventure.February 2012Apple — Great PlatformersPicked for Apple's curated Great Platformers list, alongside Beyond Ynth, Bumpy Road and Cordy. (The list is alphabetical.)April 2012Google Play — FeaturedFeatured on Google Play's games front, sharing the screen with Temple Run and Death Rally.2012Google Play — Staff PicksAnd chosen as a Staff Pick, beside Zynga's Dream Heights and Remedy's Death Rally.
Charts are per-store and per-day. Where a placement came from a promotional free
week, the caption says so. Screenshots have been cropped to the storefront itself —
nothing else has been altered.
