I have been playing a lot of iPhone games lately for review. So many so that I'm starting to publish four every Friday as an iFriday thing.

I've come to one conclusion, the majority of games for the iPhone are seriously rushed to market without any type of quality testing. For example a shooting game I recently received and will publish the review of this week is only controlled by the accelerometers and the phone must be in a flat position... who plays games with the phone in a flat position? There are no control options whatsoever. You can't flip it to vertical, you can't change the sensitivity, nothing. All can do is turn down the sound...

Another game (which will also be reviewed this week) has no save capabilities. So if you play through 40 levels of the puzzle game, good for you. Then when you re-enter you have to play them all again...

Frankly, I'm tired of it. As I say in the title the gold rush needs a tin star, a Sheriff, someone who looks at these games and decides if they are finished. That person should be a QA person, a game tester or hell, even me. Paying for these titles, albeit very small amounts, is just not worth it.

Hopefully in the very near future we'll see far less titles and far more quality titles. But part of that is going to require some restraint on the side of the consumer. Play the demos thoroughly and if the game is half-done or not as much fun as you'd expect don't say 'well it's only $1 or $2' simply don't buy it.

Rate the demos when you delete them. Don't skip that step so you save some other people the hassle of installing some bad game demo. That's what it's for. Also do some research. Read some reviews because there might be some things in the games that you don't see in the demos and we get full versions of the games specifically so we can play through them and tell you what we think.

Hopefully the Wild Wild West of the iPhone App Store will start to settle in and law will come to the land. When that happens the games flood will calm and the good will float to the top while the bad will hopefully be washed away with the rest of the garbage...