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    Blobby Volley 2
    Official continuation of the famous Blobby Volley 1.x arcade game.
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    Downloads: 197 This Week
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    Another version of the simple action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron. We're using SourceForge only for file releases and news these days. Development has moved on to GitLab: https://gitlab.com/armagetronad/armagetronad
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    Downloads: 163 This Week
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    Chromium B.S.U.

    Chromium B.S.U.

    fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter

    You are captain of the cargo ship Chromium B.S.U., responsible for delivering supplies to our troops on the front line. Chromium B.S.U. is a fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling shooter. It uses OpenGL for graphics, and OpenAL for sound effects.
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    Downloads: 139 This Week
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    StepMania
    StepMania is a music/rhythm game. The player presses different buttons in time to the music and to note patterns that scroll across the screen. Features 3D graphics, visualizations, support for gamepads/dance pads, a step recording mode, and more! WE HAVE MOVED TO GITHUB.
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    Downloads: 124 This Week
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    OpenLierox is an extremely addictive realtime worms shoot-em-up backed by an active gamers community. Dozens of levels and mods are available to provide endless gaming pleasure.
    Downloads: 97 This Week
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    Mega Mario
    Mega Mario is a Super Mario Bros. 1 clone. It features everything the original features - with better graphics, higher resolution, smoother movement and new levels. The story of Mario and Luigi continues, in old-school style. Also visit the official HP.
    Downloads: 114 This Week
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    Bombermaaan
    A classic Bomberman game with multiplayer support, cloned on original SNES games. Also similar to Dynablaster. Developed in C++. Runs on Win32 and Linux. Update 2019-09-22: sorry, there's no progress currently.
    Downloads: 98 This Week
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    A Jump and Run game like Super Mario World with an advanced Editor and highly detailed Graphics based on SDL with a OpenGL accelerated Graphics Renderer developed in C++. Runs under Linux, Windows and Mac and can be easily ported to other platforms.
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    Downloads: 67 This Week
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    Commander Genius

    Commander Genius

    Commander Keen Interpreter

    This is a fork of CloneKeen. It fully interprets the classic dos games Commander Keen 1-6 including some fanmade mods and adds some nice twists like smoother gameplay, some special graphical effects and also music, which was missing in the first trilogy. Use our High Quality Pack and enjoy the Commander Keen series in a new way.
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    Downloads: 71 This Week
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    Open Syobon Action
    A cross platform, open source version of the unforgiving Japanese parody of Super Mario Bros. Now for Windows (fixed) and AmigaOS 4*! Requires: SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf *Thanks to Michael Trebilcock for the port
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    Downloads: 52 This Week
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    AstroMenace

    AstroMenace

    Hardcore 3D space shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities.

    AstroMenace is an astonishing hardcore scroll-shooter where brave space warriors may find a great opportunity to hone their combat skills. Gather money during the battle to spend them on turning your spaceship into an ultimate weapon of mass destruction and give hell to swarms of adversaries. Enjoy the wonderfully crafted 3d graphics and high-quality special effects along with a detailed difficulty adjustment and a handy interface of AstroMenace.
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    Downloads: 67 This Week
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    PainTown

    PainTown

    Paintown is a 2d fighting game engine.

    Paintown is a 2d side scrolling beatem-up engine. Paintown supports game styles similar to the Sega Genesis game, Streets of Rage 2, as well as traditional 1 vs 1 fighting games through an implementation of MUGEN. Many aspects of Paintown are customizable, from the menu system to the levels and players that can be controlled. Paintown is highly portable. So far Paintown can run on Windows, OSX, Linux, BSD, Wii, PS3, Android and other systems.
    Downloads: 30 This Week
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    A jump-and-run game starring Tux the Penguin. (Now lives at http://supertux.lethargik.org/ )
    Downloads: 26 This Week
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    Blobwars: Metal Blob Solid
    Metal Blob Solid is a 2D platform game, the first in the Blobwars series. You take on the role of a fearless Blob agent, Bob, who's mission is to infiltrate various enemy bases and rescue as many MIAs as possible, while battling many vicious aliens.
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    Downloads: 28 This Week
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    BomberClone
    This game, I hope it will be soon, a good Clone of the game AtomicBomberMan. It supports multiplayer over the Internet. It's a funny smal game which can be very funny with other human players.
    Downloads: 53 This Week
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    I Have No Tomatoes is an extreme leisure time activity idea of which culminates in the following question: How many tomatoes can you smash in ten short minutes? If you have the time to spare, this game has the vegetables just waiting to be eliminated!
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    Downloads: 32 This Week
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    A QT-Based program that takes input from joystick/gamepad devices and produces keyboard or mouse activity in XWindows. Great for games with no or mediocre joystick support as well as for emulation. Easy to set up. Supports any number of devices.
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    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    A UNIX/Windows/Linux remake of the DOS-game "stunts", providing modern features like openGL graphics, 3D sound and internet multiplaying. Design your own tracks, choose your opponents and try the most spectacular stunts you've ever seen.
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    Tux Football, a fun arcade-style 2D football game for Windows and Linux, very reminsicent of Sensible Soccer and Kick Off.
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    Fast 2d tank arcade game with multiplayer and split-screen modes.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    Blocktality is an award-winning top-down shooter in which the main character Sphero is fighting against the cubiods for the freedom of his people. The gameplay involves fast paced combat interspersed with interesting physics puzzles.
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    Downloads: 51 This Week
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    Defeat autocreated huge battleships. Shootem up game, 'rRootage'. This is a port to Linux.
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    Downloads: 46 This Week
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    Dave Gnukem

    Dave Gnukem

    A 2D scrolling platform shooter, inspired by Duke Nukem 1

    Dave Gnukem is a retro-style 2D scrolling platform shooter. It is inspired by & similar to Duke Nukem 1, a famous 1991 classic. It currently runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, OpenPandora, MorphOS & more. It's not a clone or remake; it's more like a parody. ~2022/2023: New packages for Debian, Ubuntu etc.! https://repology.org/project/davegnukem/versions 3 Apr 2018: Version 1 out! As of 8 Oct 2016, this project is active again. Source: https://github.com/davidjoffe/dave_gnukem Dev LiveStream: http://twitch.tv/david_joffe https://www.liveedu.tv/david_joffe/l98yv-dave-gnukem-side-scrolling-shooter/ Level Editor HowTo: https://youtu.be/xiznDqg2BHg What reviewers are saying: "Worth the price you paid for it" "Not the worst game I've ever seen" AWARDS: Won the arin_j "i think your a good programer award", 6 Jan 2018 live-stream; "FIVE STARS amazing programer at work" - https://www.liveedu.tv/david_joffe/R8JV2-miscellaneous/4zxMn-miscellaneous-49/ ❤️Please donate, thanks!
    Downloads: 36 This Week
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    Shootem up game set in an abstract world. 10 stages plus endless mode.
    Downloads: 35 This Week
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    A clone of a certain well-known 1970s arcade shooter, with pepped up graphics and more features.
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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