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Side-Scrolling Games for Desktop Operating Systems

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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: 98 This Week
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    A jump-and-run game starring Tux the Penguin. (Now lives at http://supertux.lethargik.org/ )
    Downloads: 20 This Week
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    Snake 2D

    Snake 2D

    Simple single and multiplayer 2D snake game

    Simple single and multiplayer 2D snake game If you like it please drop a Like! :D
    Downloads: 43 This Week
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    Alex the Allegator is a series of games featuring everything from puzzle games to racing and platform jump n runs. The Alex games are provided with full source and are buildable on every platform that Allegro supports.
    Downloads: 25 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: 20 This Week
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    No Gravity (Classic)
    No Gravity is a fantastic and futuristic universe made of five intergalactic worlds. An arcade type game with great playability, where it is easy to plunge into space battles against spacefighters, space stations and more !
    Downloads: 22 This Week
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    Super Mario Bros. Python
    This is just a Demo release of the game. Known problem: - The game runs slow / laggy. i think the enemies/camera might be causing it. Play as Super mario in 4 new levels! Game made in python with help of sprites/images Made by Morp.
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    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Heroes is similar to the "Tron" and "Nibbles" games of yore, but includes many graphical improvements and new game features. In it, you must maneuver a small vehicle around a world and collect powerups while avoiding obstacles.
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    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    GAV (Gpl Arcade Volleyball) is an object-oriented multiplatform Arcade Volleyball clone. It supports multiplayer and theme customization.
    Downloads: 27 This Week
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    M.A.R.S. - a ridiculous Shooter
    This is a first attempt to create a game in OpenGL with SFML. It is a game for two players, flying with ships in a two-dimensional space setting, governed by the laws of gravity. There are several game modes and a lot of weapons.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    A scrolling, platform-jumping, key-collecting, ancient pyramid exploring game, vaguely in the style of similar games for the Commodore+4. The game is intended to show young people (I'm writing it for my son's birthday) all the cool games they missed.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    nsnake

    nsnake

    Classic snake game on the terminal; made with C++ and ncurses

    nsnake is a clone of the classic snake game that we all used to play on our cellphones. You play this game on the terminal, with textual interface. It has a gui-like interface on the console, with many settings and possible game modes. Note that it depends on `ncurses` and `yaml-cpp`. For a more detailed README, check out the GitHub page: https://github.com/alexdantas/nSnake
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    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    MyMan is a video game for color and monochrome text terminals in the genre of Namco's Pac-Man.
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    Downloads: 13 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: 6 This Week
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    Guardian

    2D logical platformer created in 48 hours for the Game Jam Prague 2012

    2D logical platformer created in 48 hours for the Game Jam Prague 2012 competition, where it won the first place. The given topic was "ouroboros" and because of that the game repeats three levels in four different seasons, where puzzles get more and more complicated every season.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    WormLights A game based on the careers of light cycles of Tron. The game will have a potent IA engine based on three levels of difficulty: easy, medium and hard.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Collection of action/puzzle games about Sint Nicolaas, who delivers presents and cookies to the chimneys each year in December.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    PacMan2 - The Family - Network Edition - Arcade game - opensourceware version of Pacman with NEW DESIGN and LOTS OF DEVICES (program's engine has got script executer - Squirrel(R)), in 2D version, semi-3D version and under development fully 3D It can be played by 2 players at the same PC or in multiplayer mode over the LAN-network (TCP/IP protocol, uses sockets)
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    BrickCracker ++

    BrickCracker ++

    An Animated 2D Game in the Turbo Compiler.

    Using the simple line-graphics available in the Turbo's "graphics.h" graphics library, create a classic, fully functional paranoid-clone with the ability to create custom scenarios, and with several variations (sizes/numbers) of balls, bricks and bats. High-scores are recorded into a text file for later perusal.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    This is a clone of the classic "Missile Command" Game, but it has better graphics and music. The gameplay has only been slightly modified. Penguin Command is completely licensed under the GPL.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Snake

    A Snake game written in c++ using SDL.

    This one-player Snake game is written in c++ using SDL. Eat food and avoid walls, to reach highscore ! Simple and entertaining.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Reimplementation of the 1988 game with the same name, (it's also known as Nebulus). In the game you have to climb a tower with strange inhabitants that try to push you down. Your only defense is a ball you can throw and your skills in avoiding them.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    KBall

    KBall

    KBall, game of skill and reflexes, non violent, suitable for all age

    A game of skill and reflexes, non violent, suitable for all ages, hours of fun! 100 % FUN Move the ball around the level map, without falling, without running out of time, and getting the prizes, in order to reach the exit. Full map editor included!
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    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    T^3 ("T-cubed") is a 3D Tetris game.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Tux-n-Run is a 2D Super Mario style platform game, created in C++ using SDL. The aim of the project is to increase the number of quality games available for the Linux platform. Windows and possibly Mac OS X will also be supported.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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