"Defender Clone" Doesn't Do it Justice
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Yes, the basics of the gameplay derive from Defender--it's a sidescrolling shmup in which you can 'flip' your ship to move and fire either right or left, and enemies approach from both sides of the screen. But Alien Abduction features trippy late-80s graphics, excellent sound and music, 30 levels, and 3 gameplay modes.

Baby Boom II takes us back to the strangest factory you'll ever see! Run the baby production line featuring overheated wacky machines, power-ups, bonus presents and of course, screaming babies! Are you fast enough to handle the Speed Rounds and clever enough for the Bonus Rounds?

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In addition to the ads-free version, available via the "download demo" and "buy now" links to right, we now offer an ad-supported version of the game for a very nice price. You're served an ad at game start-up, between levels, and sent to an advertiser's page when you close the game, but it's not too intrusive, and hey, the price is good. To get this version, don't click the links in the left-hand column, and instead go here:

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Yar, well... It's Tetris.

Well not quite; none of the Tetris shapes, instead a fall-from-the-sky, match-three-stacking game like, well, many others--except that there are five different game modes that introduce new features, like jokers, bombs, hidden blox, frogs, fireballs, slot machines, "wild" blox, and boulders.

Death and Beauty

It's a paradox that the shmup--that old-school genre of frenetic space shooting--can create visuals that come closer to the status of abstract art than any other digital form... If you could ever look up from the intensity of combat long enough to really notice them.

Bullet Candy is a case in point; frenetic space mayhem, and beautiful imagery.

Charlie Knight, its creator, is clearly a long-standing enthusiast of the genre; he's created a highly polished, well executed examplar of the form, complete with "Minter levels" as an homage to Jeff Minter's landmark games. Shmup fans will find a lot to like here; novices are advised to turn the difficulty down as low as it will go (which isn't much).

Clever Puzzle Game of Spatial Reasoning

I'm a sucker for an original and well-designed puzzle game, and Chocolate Castle certainly qualifies. Here's how it works: In each level, you have a number of little characters who eat chocolate, but each eats only one type (white, milk, dark, or rose), and eats only once. About the level are various blocks of chocolate; you have to clear a level. Blocks can be dragged about the level, but if a block of one color contacts another of the same color, they stick together permanently. One character can eat an entire group of chocolate of the same color. So you have to plan how to move your chocolate blocks to free up other eaters in such a way that everything gets eaten, given the geography of the level and the limited number of eaters you possess.

Clash'N Slash is a classic shmup with 70 levels, scads of opponents, power-ups and, well, just continuous shooting action. See aliens, shoot 'em... That, and not the hokey pokey, is what it's all about.

Loads of weapons, upgrades and enemies will hold your interest and the innovative bonus triggering system will make your game experience colorful and fun.

A sequel to Coin World, Coin Planets brings back the same character (Colin the Coin) in another straight-forward but well executed run-and-jump platformer. This time, the levels are set on the nine planets of our system (and the sun), with opponents and puzzles appropriate to each. As with the previous game, there's nothing hugely innovative here, but if you like a good platformer, it's worth a try.

The Developer Says

Dark Matter is a remake of the classic arcade game Asteroids. In 1980, Asteroids was one of the most commercially successful games and helped to establish videogames as a lasting entertainment media. For a generation of video game addicts, Asteroids will always mean simple graphics, stressful and addictive gameplay, and dreams of high-scoring glory.

Return of the Beloved Amiga Classic

Largely a remake of the much-loved Amiga game Defender of the Crown (later released for just about every platform available in the late 80s, including the NES), Heroes Live Forever updates the game with better graphics, fully digitized music, and a new gameplay element ("tactics" cards that give you special benefits during battles).

In Defender of the Crown, you play one of several great lords in England, attempting to unify the realm under your own rule. Conquering provinces produces tax revenues that you can use to increase the size of your army (but you have only one "army" which follows you, milord, about, and can purchase new units only at your castle, meaning you become vulnerable over time unless you return home frequently).