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Play the Bible is a free-to-play game intended to provide an interactive game element while reading the Bible. It uses a game mechanic where colors need to be placed inside words that do not change, which is different from the traditional gameplay of matching colored tiles next to each other.

The goal of the game is to match any color to any word, and once a word is filled-up with a color, all such tiles will turn gold and fireworks will be displayed. As you complete levels, you earn gold bars which can be used to attain more moves and power-ups as described below. If you are able to remember the verse played without looking it up, you also earn additional gold bars. The game features 31,000+ levels, one level per verse of the Bible.

You can play free for 15-20 minutes every couple of hours, or you can acquire gold bars through in-app purchases to get more moves. You can unlock new Bible verses for your favorite characters by progressing through the game or by unlocking them early.

The game includes numerous power-ups to help you along the way, including fireballs, icebooms, electrocons and lightstrikes. And once you reach level 16, an angel comes to assist you whenever you call on her. Spirit points are earned by answering a question after playing each verse.

The game features a multiplayer mode for one-on-one or for larger groups of any size (10, 20, 50, 100 or more).

Time Runner is a game in which you move your character along a pellet grid, which changes from level to level, while you collect points and avoid enemy characters. The goal is to, similar to PacMan, cover the entire board and fill-in each rectangular area, which will then become colored in. Time Runner was first developed on the Atari 800 and later converted to the Commodore-64.

Space Quest is the 3rd in a series of space warfare games developed in this arcade genre (Space Voyager, Great Wave and Space Quest).

The game play worked in such a manner that aliens would come down from the top one row at a time, but as a sequel game to Space Voyager, the formations of the aliens was different for every level, from the simple one row of aliens, to multiple rows that would move in both directions.

As each alien reached the edge of the screen, they would move down a row until they would overcome the gamer. Free ships could be earned as we as reward animations. For example, when 10,000 points were achieved, an alien space craft would land and bestow more points to the player.

Great Wave is a game in which space ships of various types would warp into space on the screen around the player's space ship, while the goal was to shoot the enemy ships as they were attacking.

The positioning of ships warping in varies greatly to challenge the reflexes of the gamer to quickly point and shoot. In the more advanced levels, the speed and number of alien ships flying in becomes more and more challenging.

But like Space Voyager and Space Quest, which comes later, Great Wave always provides level bonuses and rewards to motivate and keep the gamer moving ahead, until they would run out of lives (ships).

Space Voyager is an alien invasion game, in the same genre as Space Invaders and the later Galaga.

However, the game play involved aliens who would come down in a fashion such that they moved from the left of the screen to the right, down a row and then from right to left until they would overcome the player.