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Brickout is a ball-and-paddle Breakout variant where it is your objective to destroy bricks on the screen.

PDA Maze is a first-person perspective 3D maze game, originally designed for the Agenda VR3 Linux-based personal digital assistant (PDA).

Sludge is an action game loosely inspired by Pipe Dreams. The player needs to connect pipes to a sludge outlet to control the flow of a toxic substance produced at a factory. In later levels longer connections are required, with more pipes to connect, and the sludge starts flowing sooner.

Entombed! is a clone of the Atari 2600 title Entombed. The player takes on the role of an archaeologist, part of a team fallen into the catacombs of the zombies. The screen scrolls vertically at a fixed pace and gradually speeds up as the player progresses. The goal is to survive, while progressing to prevent disappearing through the top of the screen. There are hazards to avoid and potions can be used to create and destroy walls. Destroying walls is needed to create passages, while constructing them can hold back a chasing enemy.

The game supports one or two players.

X-Bomber is multiplayer maze-style game where players collect and drop bombs, in an attempt to blow each other up. The last player standing wins.

In Agendaroids your objective is to maneuver a space ship within a field of asteroids, and shoot them into smaller and smaller pieces, eventually destroying them completely.

The game is designed specifically for the Agenda VR3 Linux-based personal digital assistant (PDA).

Mad Bomber is a fast game where you move a stack of buckets at the bottom of the screen to catch the bombs a mad bomber drops from the top. They need to be caught and extinguished in the buckets before they reach the ground. A bucket is removed when that happens until none are left. The game has a single-player mode and a two-player mode for both cooperative and competitive gameplay.

The game is a clone of Kaboom!

ICBM3D ("Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles, 3D") is a 3D vector-based clone of Dave Theurer's classic Atari arcade game, Missile Command. You are in control of Anti-ICBM weapons which you use to destroy an onslaught of missiles (and other nasties) which are dropping onto your nation.

The game ends when your cities have all been destroyed. You only gain replacement cities by achieving certain score thresholds during each attack.

Gem Drop X is a fast-paced puzzle game where screens of gems need to be cleared before they reach the bottom. This release is a port of the original GemDrop for the Atari 8-bit, which in turn is inspired by Magical Drop III.

You move a character left or right and grab up to ten gems of the same color from the ones at the top and use them to knock more gems off the screen by launching them. Match three or more of the same color in a column and they explode. Any adjacent gems of the same color also explode, causing a chain reaction that might cover the entire screen. The more gems that disappear with one shot, the higher the score you get.

Aliens is a variant of Space Invaders written specifically for the Linux-based Agenda VR3 personal digital assistant (PDA).

3D Pong is a 3D game based on the Atari Pong Arcade classic. It supports one or two players. Each player controls their paddle with the mouse and tries to score by bouncing a ball into the other player's goal just behind the paddle.

Invenies Verba (Latin for "find the words") is a fast single-player word puzzle game based on the mobile and web based game LEX by Simple Machine. The objective is to produce words by using a collection of random letters. Meters fill up next to unused letters as time progresses, encouraging the player to use them. When a single meter next to letter is filled up completely, the game ends.

A different score is provided for using each letter based on the letter's frequency in the language. Rare letters are worth more that way. Letters' frequencies also determine how quickly their meters fill. Every third word you enter takes you to the next level, where points are multiplied, but meters also fill more quickly.

Gem Drop is a fast-paced puzzle game and is based on the concept of Magical Drop III. The goal is to clear all gems on the screen before they squash the character at the bottom of the screen.

The player controls the character at the bottom and can collect up to ten gems of the same color. These are then launched at the ones at the top to knock them off the screen. When three of more gems of the same color connect, they match and explode. Any adjacent games of the same color will also explode, causing chain reactions. A higher score is provided for making more gems disappear in one go.

Defendguin is a clone of the arcade game Defender, but with a Linux theme. The player controls a space ship shown from a side view in a 2D environment. The plane can freely move left or right in a scrolling environment that wraps around. Your mission is to defend little penguinoids from being captured and mutated. To do that a variety of aliens needs to be battled. Smart bombs can be used to destroy an entire screen worth of foes.

Circus Linux! is a clone of the Atari 2600 game Circus Atari, which is in turn based on the Arcade game Circus. The goal of the game is to move a teeter-totter back and forth across the screen to bounce clowns up into the air. When they reach the top, they pop rows of balloons and then fall back down. Gameplay is similar to a title like Breakout or Arkanoid.

In Bug Squish the player has to protect their own arm from blood-sucking insects. Using a fly-swatter (controlled by the mouse or a touch screen) they need to be squished before they suck you dry. There are 32 waves, with various bug types, and occasional "extra blood" and score multiplier bonuses. It is based on the Macintosh shareware game Blood Suckers.

3D Battle Tank is a first-person vector graphics tank game, based loosely on the classic Atari arcade game Battlezone. Each level is filled with random geometric obstacles, and introduces more and/or more sophisticated enemies, including regular tanks (green), faster and more aggressive "super tanks" (purple), UFOs which are harmless, but worth bonus points, and ballistic missiles -- both straight-shooting and zig-zagging. Along with sound effects, phone vibration feedback is available on many handsets.