Although overshadowed last week by an uproar over Apple Inc. slashing the price of its iPhone by $200, the company also said it has updated its iPod media players.

Apple plus HP -- sounds like a marriage made in tech heaven. Or maybe not. The iPod+HP turned out to be just a blip in both companies' history.

Later versions of the iPod got an official version of Tetris, in addition to games like Bejeweled, Mini Golf, Mahjong, Zuma, Cubis 2, and Pac-Man. All of these releases predate the App Store.

The iPod runs a prototype version of iPodOS 2.0, and one of the games is "Stacker." Stacker works a lot like Tetris, where the Tetris pieces are moved from left to right using the scroll wheel.

Alongside iPod nano in 2005, Apple introduced iPod Shuffle, an ultra-portable version with no screen, emphasizing simplicity and affordability. Its smaller size and random music playback focused ...