# 1942 Classic Arcade — user reviews > 411 indexed App Store user reviews of 1942 Classic Arcade by FALCON GAMES, rated 4.70/5 from 5,999 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/1942-classic-arcade/id1422972690/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/1942-classic-arcade/id1422972690.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5,052 · 4★ 470 · 3★ 146 · 2★ 88 · 1★ 243 ## What do users think of 1942 Classic Arcade? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🎮 Classic arcade feel - 🕹️ Nostalgic gameplay - 💥 Challenging levels - 🚀 Smooth performance **Cons** - 🔍 Progression gated by in-app purchases - 💰 Excessive ads and monetization - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🔋 High battery consumption **Commonly reported bugs** - Levels getting stuck or unbeatable - Ads not registering properly - Progression and upgrades not tracking correctly **Most requested features** - More levels and content - Controller support - Improved reward system - Better communication from developers ## Newest reviews (16 of 411) ### 3/5 — Cheater, or Glitch *2026-08-02, version 7.9* I just paid $4.99 for the no ad version. I clicked to get my rewards and sure enough, I am looking at a long drawn out slow ad. Either I paid for no ads (it DID clear), or I would like my $4.99.back and or five dollars and 30 some odd cents if taxes were included. ### 2/5 — The dumb illiterate monkeys... *2026-07-08, version 7.9* behind this game, are so stupid sloppy they mindlessly have their little two line messages on screen all of half a second before each round. Worse yet, the English is broken and grammatically incorrect. This is the state of the industry. Apple used to have standards. ### 2/5 — Meh *2026-05-16, version 7.9* So freakin easy it’s boring, uninstalled after 2 minutes ### 3/5 — Better than original, but *2026-04-14, version 7.9* This game is stealing my gems I swear, I used to have around 200 from grinding, and now I only have 27 after replaying ### 3/5 — Needs work *2026-03-17, version 7.9* The actual arcade style game play is pretty good. However THE ADs ARE 1.5 - 3 MINUTES LONG for almost no reward. They really need to cut them back to 10-30 seconds like other popular games. If the next update don’t fix, I’ll be moving on. ### 2/5 — Classic *2025-05-19, version 7.9* Boring game!!! Full of players that play the same map over n over for hrs on end to gain a measly couple hundred gems which won’t even get you an upgrade on a plane !! Needs more maps and limits on players being able to play map 1 ie; over,and over and over again…………… ### 1/5 — Broken *2025-04-06, version 7.9* The aircraft chests give me planes I already have with nothing in return for the green and orange boxes. The adds freeze and I have to close and reopen the app and remove the adds form the bottom when playing because it makes gameplay worse ### 1/5 — One Star – Ruined by Greed *2025-04-06, version 7.9* I used to enjoy this game, but the recent update completely wrecked the experience. They made older levels harder by retroactively adding new obstacles like the lightning, clearly to push players toward in-app purchases. Some levels feel outright impossible now unless you pay for upgrades. On top of that, the game is flooded with ads, so frequent it’s unbearable. It’s obvious the developers are prioritizing money over a fair gameplay experience. Disappointing and frustrating. ### 1/5 — Pub insupportable *2025-03-24* Le jeux est sympas mais alors le niveau des pubs est insupportable, elles sont à rallonge, quand une pub se termine, une deuxième se lance. On arrive à avoir un lot de pub pour 1 mn 30, c’est très très abusé ### 1/5 — Ads with occasional gameplay *2025-03-19, version 7.7* The vast quantity of ads make this unplayable. Played 3 missions and spent more time watching ads. Deleted. ### 1/5 — FIX YOUR GAME *2025-03-14* When l press the skill button, my plane goes to top left corner of the screen, which causes me to die from the enemies. The Aircraft chests get me the planes I already have, and all my diamonds, or time spent watching adds goes to waste. Why did you put the add banner on the bottom of the screen? I can’t see what’s happening from below. For some reason I can’t watch adds because there no adds to show me for rewards, but magically when I die or complete a level, now there are many adds to show me? Oh and the red gun mode most of the time doesn’t even work properly I get 3 bullets instead of 4? The music also just stops sometimes, and getting new planes and making them stronger is really really time consuming. Why does this game use so much of my battery? I can play for 15 minutes and my battery goes from 80% to 60%? My battery is not depleted. Good game ruined by bad software and adds. ### 1/5 — 落ちる *2025-03-03* プレイできないぞ バグが直ってないぞ ### 2/5 — Pourri par la pub *2025-02-19* Injouable avec les pubs qui clignotent en bas de l’écran. Graphismes ultra vieillots et jeu lent comme pas possible. Bye bye ! ### 1/5 — Payment *2025-02-12, version 7.4* Don’t get this game, they expect you to pay $5 for a bunch of adds loaded up in the bottom pf the screen to be removed. What a scam!!! Can’t plag the game with adds constantly on the way. ### 1/5 — Arnaque 👎 *2025-02-11* J’effectue un achat en espérant supprimer les pubs mais hélas elles sont toujours présente ! Très déçu ### 2/5 — Fun, but buggy and took my money *2025-02-11, version 7.4* I payed the $4.99 for the ad-less experience because I enjoy the game, but I still recieve ads betweene every level. Would give this. 4-4.5/5 if the ad removal actually worked. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Adds adds and more adds *2026-08-18, version 7.9* The amount of adds in this game is beyond ridiculous. You spend more time watching adds than playing. Don’t waste your time downloading. ### 1/5 — The advertising is insane! *2026-08-02, version 7.9* I remember this game for ages ago. So decided to give it a go again. Had to delete it because of the heavy advertising!! Never played such a game that wastes so much time trying to play it! I understand money revenue, but you can’t do anything without an ad popping up! Tone it down guys🤦🏼‍♂️ ### 1/5 — Don’t get *2026-07-09, version 7.9* Absolute rubbish .. first you pay to get rid off advertising and then anything you touch is designed to sale you another app.. game ok but price is outrageous ### 1/5 — 1,942 Commercials *2026-06-08, version 7.9* So many very long commercials it’s virtually unplayable. I’d estimate 90% of my time on this app was watching commercials rather than actually playing the game. It’s just not worth it. ### 1/5 — Don’t play it *2026-04-02, version 7.9* I payed £5 for this game so I’m not bombarded by adverts literally every minute, which is what will happen. Secondly this game is almost as old as I am ”ancient”, and as much as I love this game you need extremely DEEP pockets to play it , there seems to be no end in the amount of upgrades each individual plane you own , for example I own one plane and have spent £200 on upgrades and the game will not even let me pass 50% of the missions due to the weakness of the plane , every aspect of this game is real money based only, if you are extremely P2P / P2W then this is for you, the game I would recommend highly, but the business model is terrible , money money … rating 1 star when it should be 5. ### 1/5 — Ads ferrando com a gameplay *2026-02-27* Mesmo que você assista um ad pra reviver, o jogo entende que você perdeu o jogo. Ads já são irritantes, mas se nem pra uma benfeitoria no jogo eles podem servir, é melhor parar de jogar mesmo, já que ninguém atualiza essa bomba pra corrigir os bugs… ### 1/5 — No lo recomiendo es pésimo *2025-09-23, version 7.9* No se lo recomiendo para nada y menos comprando vip este juego sus desarrolladores son de lo más tramposos ;cada quince días actualizan el juego cada vez más difícil y de nada sirve tus compras vip ### 1/5 — Adds *2025-05-23, version 7.9* How do I get ahold of support I hate all the adds so I paid $4.99 to get add free but I still get a bunch of adds , I clicked on app support but all it does is say hello world with no options ### 1/5 — Used to be great, now unplayable. *2025-05-07, version 7.9* This used to be a great game to pass the time, now it’s flooded with ads and doesn’t track progress in the weekly tournament. I even paid to remove ads but they’re still there after every single level. Such a disappointment. ### 1/5 — Ads require force quit *2025-04-19, version 7.9* De bug. Zero stars ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Ad Free *2026-06-14, version 7.9* I paid the 5.99 for the ad free and yet I continue to receive them. ### 5/5 — 1942 classic arcade game *2025-10-31, version 7.9* Best game you can play on your phone in my opinion ### 5/5 — 你們是詐騙公司嗎？ *2025-09-27, version 7.9* 花了150元買「去除廣告」，結果，廣告依然存在，是怎樣？你們是打算去「消保會」說明嗎？ 我的遊戲帳號： player10066 還我錢來！ ### 5/5 — Download this game *2025-04-02, version 7.9* You should download this game and I played it in my childhood ### 5/5 — Awesome feel *2025-01-11, version 7.1* Love the way it plays ### 5/5 — No wifi *2024-12-25, version 6.9* This game is honestly great it used to be my childhood favorite game and what’s even better is that it doesn’t need any WiFi so this is great when traveling or anything your doing so I would rate this 5 stars ### 5/5 — 45 level *2024-12-17, version 6.9* 12-16-24 some egoist reprogrammed 45 level,hard and crazy is impossible to drive aircraft through out game filled,I can believe that some people get so easy access to the game programming accounts,12-17-24 now commercial block if you want to save 20 diamonds you can watch a add for second try before back up air plan,is extended to 2 x 15 seconds,insted 5 more seconds after add finished,you can get back,now you have to wait additional tine plus 2x15 seconds extra add..I don’t know what is that all about ? we should all grow up and take responsibilities for civilians and civilians,life is about realistic obligations ! ### 5/5 — Bien *2024-12-04* Bien mais faudré faire des mis à jour ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2024-10-22, version 6.9* This is an awesome throwback game, very fun. Once you start you can’t stop playing. ### 5/5 — This should be called 1942 HD remastered edition *2024-10-01, version 6.9* This is such a good remastered version of the arcade classic 1942 battle for midway this stomps even the HBMAME versions of the classic game you could clone this app and continue to develop off of what you have here and make a brand new 1942 Version 2 and make a whole new rendition of the game whilst keeping this version great job devs!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*