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This is exactly like that game of old, although instead of killing the 'germs' by lining up pills of the correct color, you are required to take out the smiley faces.

This tetris-style game is easy enough to play - your arrow keys control the falling pills. They can be rotated and stacked according to color. Stacking four pills and or smiley faces of the same color will make them 'disappear'. Once you have cleared a level of smiley faces, you can move on to the next level. Each level increases in the number of smiley faces and the speed of the dropping pills.

While there is no real aim to this game, it is still really fun to play and I found it rather addictive. I think there is something of a sentimental quality to playing a game that you used to play for hours as a kid.

While this game won't knock your socks off with its amazing graphics and storyline, I found it strangely compelling. It is a nice twist on the classic space invaders game and the soundtrack is pretty good.

You play as a blue semi circle (a gun?) and you start out with three lives. Every time you get shot you loose a life. Your gun is controlled by the left and right arrow keys. Although be warned - your gun keeps moving unless you push the down arrow key. You fire your gun using the space bar.

The aim of Dragonball Z Vaderz is to kill as many Bad Guys as you can while trying to catch Dragonballs dropped by your comrades. This is where your accuracy comes in to play, as you do not want to shoot the Dragonballs or the guy dropping them! And that's really all you need to know to get playing!

In this cute 2D platform game you play as, strangely enough, a lovable blue kitty named Kittey. As Kittey, it is up to you to brave the perils of chicken birds and spiky monsters to investigate the Strange Tower in the west, just because you can.

This game is easy enough to play (shift/ctrl/arrows/enter) and has ok graphics and sound, typical of any arcade-type game. It also comes with cute sound effects, the various nasties making satisfying popping noises when you jump on them.

A game with a Kitty can be played in two screen sizes, full screen and annoyingly small. (But easy enough to hide if you're playing while you should be doing something else...) I was also extremely excited with the numerous save opportunities scattered throughout the game, making playing enjoyable rather than frustrating.

That said, it is a short game and experts should have it finished in 1 or 2 hours. However, the amusing storyline (or lack thereof) and smooth animations make this a worthwhile download for any gamer.

Who knew that mowing the lawn could be so much fun? In this game you have a lawn to mow (yes, really). In that lawn there are multitudes of tiny bugs that are just begging to be mown over. So what is your mission in this game you ask? Well it should be obvious. To mow over as many bugs as you can of course!

Before you begin on your bug-squishing adventures, you get to choose your weapon of choice. There are three lawn mowers to choose from, each with different qualities (i.e. speed and acceleration). Then the annihilation begins, and it's every bug for itself.

This game is loosely based on snake. For every bug you mow over you get a link added to a chain that follows your lawn mower. In each level there are a certain number of bugs that you have to mow over before you can move on to the next level. Every level gets slightly harder with the addition of rocks that you must avoid to prevent your mower from being damaged. You should also avoid the chain that follows your mower. However, your lawn mower is able to withstand a certain amount of abuse, which is certainly a good thing.

This game has excellent graphics, good sound effects (squish that bug!) and great background music. The lawn mower is extremely easy to control, and the bugs are quite difficult to mow over. So I'd say that this superb game, based on such a simple and original idea, is definitely worth downloading. Even if its just to satisfy your bug-squishing urge (c'mon there's no denying it).

This game was entered into the 2004 Game Programming Competition held by The Game Creators and was created by Amanda Patterson and Benjy Wright using Darkbasic Professional.

Centipede is not the most exciting of games. This game is very similar to snake. You control a centipede and you have to navigate your way (using the arrow keys) through a maze eating various tasty snacks as you go along. If you collide with the maze or your tail you die.

At the beginning of each level, you start off with just your centipede's head, but every time you eat something tasty (yum!) you get a segment added to your body. So although as you start off, everything appears very easy, as the levels get harder and as your centipede gets longer and longer, the mazes get harder and harder to navigate, requiring some foresight to enable the level to be completed.

There are three difficulty settings and 14 different mazes to navigate through. This game comes with a level editor as well, so you can create your own mazes.

The graphics are alright, and the centipede is easy to control. There is no music or sound effects whatsoever, so this is a good game for you if you like to listen to your own music when playing. (Well best no music than horribly irritating music, hey?)

This game was developed by IfThen Software using DarkBASIC Professional and was one of the few 2D games entered into the 2004 Game programming competition offered by The Game Creators.

In FloboPuyo you play against either a human or A.I. opponent. The object is simple; you have to align 4 or more blobs of the same colour together in order to make them disappear. The winner is the player that can keep their screen clear, without letting the blobs reach the top of the screen.

So thats how you play. Sound too easy? Well FloboPuyo comes with three difficulty settings, so it's simple to find the level that will suit your playing ability.

The graphics are good, the blobs are all 3D rendered and as a nice effect they have blinking eyes! Gasp!

I found the background music a little creepy, but then that's just me. The sound effects that go with you getting rid of blobs are quite satisfying.

The gameplay is relatively simple, yet it is deceptively addictive, I would especially recommend this game to any Tetris fan.

You are an aspiring sushi chef and it's up to you to cut as much sushi as you can! But tranquil though it may seem, making sushi is not without its dangers. Every time you fail to cut a piece of sushi or if you try to cut up nothing, then your health is damaged! Those that manage to over come those hazards and succeed in cutting up ten pieces of sushi in a row, will be rewarded with a new weapon.

This remarkable idea for a game came from the heads of Natomic members: Ndeal, Pegwo, and Blake. The graphics are simple yet complex, and this suits the games frantic cutting style. The catchy background tune borders on the annoying, but is exactly the right sort of tune to whip you into a sushi cutting frenzy. While the gameplay is nothing new or remarkable, it is addictive enough to keep you coming back for more.

I'd recommend this game, it definitely appeals to my sense of simple, repetitive, addictive gaming. And with a relatively small download size, what have you got to loose?

Area 2048 is a really cool old style space shooter game with a modern feel. The graphics are completely vector based, for those of you who don't know what vector based means: your ship, the enemies' ships, bullets, explosions and everything else is drawn using only lines. As the enemy ships explode from the impact of your bullets, they dissolve into a multitude of lines and geometric shapes.

You fly around in your little vector ship and have to clear the area of enemy ships. At the end of each level you have to destroy the areas enemy base, which takes some doing, but it should not be impossible for a fighter pilot of your caliber.

I really enjoyed this game, but I may be biased because I'm a big fan of space shooter games. The level of difficulty of the game can be adjusted to suit the ability of even the most hard-core gamer, so there should be no complaints there. A great game. Download it now.

Like other Orange Camel games, Crystal Chaos is not for the easily frustrated. In Crystal Chaos you control a bubble-like ship and it is up to you to collect as many crystals as you can while avoiding the enemy robots that appear at either end of the playing screen. Sound easy? Well it's not. This game involves incredibly fine mouse maneuvering skills if you want to stay in control of your ship. That said, Crystal Chaos can be an entertaining game to play, once you've mastered the difficult mouse controls.

The graphics are nothing to shout about, but they are adequate.

The only sound in the game is the sound of your enemies exploding as they fall under your rain of bullets and the explosion you make as you crash and burn. The sound too is limited but adequate.

Size wise, this game is not very big, which makes it great for all 56k'er and impatient gamers out there.

So to sum things up, this game is not the greatest, but it should keep you amused while the coffee brews. But don't complain to us in frustration, I did warn you.

I found this cute little game from Natomic Studios to be quite frustrating and difficult at times. As the diver in Depth Diver, it's up to you to go to great depths to retrieve great treasures, while avoiding dangerous colourful fish and other deadly sea creatures. A great big friendly turtle at the top of the screen lets you know how much air you have left in your lungs, which is quite useful really.

Now the graphics of this game are not great but I would say they lend something of an authentic air to the game, giving Depth Diver it that arcade quality. The same could be said about the background tunes of the game, which are catchy and very “arcadey”. As for gameplay, it's very simple really, just using the arrow keys for direction and control for shooting your diving gun. Nothing too complex going on there.

A fun little game that doesn't really have anything special, unless you're a fan of diving and treasure finding, but then who doesn't want to find some sunken treasure chest?