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Space Renegades is a arcade style vertical space shooter that will give you goose bumps! Space Renegades: The Series also has several tracks of toe tapping original music to keep the action going throughout both games that are bundled in this space shooter package!

Space Renegades: The Series combines ‘Space Renegades 1’ and ‘Space Renegades 2: Ulitmatum’. By packaging these games together United Minds Games offers players hours of gameplay at an amazing low cost! But don’t expect this game to be easy, it offers players 4 levels of difficulty along with tons upgradable weapons, shields, and much more!

In Space Renegades 1, you play as a Space Ranger named Adam. The Space Ranger firm that he worked for recently lost its credibility and went out of business. He decided to be a self-employed Space Ranger, but at the same time a mob boss named Lord Art puts out a bounty on him dead or alive. Instead of protecting the galaxy he’s protecting himself from wave after wave of bounty hunters.

In Space Renegades 2: Ultimatum, you continue your quest as Adam. Impressed by Adam’s fighter skills, Lord Art wants Adam to join his gang. After refusing to join, Art kidnaps Adams family with an ultimatum for Adam to either join him or watch his family die. Help save Adam’s family by searching throughout the known galaxy.

Missing a quality vertical scrolling shoot em up since the old days? Are you a SHMUP freak and can not find any game of your favorite genre? Just want to shoot hordes of alien spaceships rampaging on your screen and survive the fights against huge bosses?
Then ARYDOX is your game!
Jump into your high-tech spaceship codenamed Golden Hawk and pilot it through a challenging universe where only the strongests survive! This game is a 2D vertically scrolling top-down view retro style space shooter, similar to Raptor, Tyrian and the AMIGA classic SWIV, featuring high quality graphics, CD quality music and 18 levels of adrenaline pumping action.
Arydox is a fast-paced top-down view vertically scrolling arcade shoot em up (or a retro SHMUP as the fans know this category). You control a space fighter blasting hordes of aliens using your firepower and your way through 18 adrenaline pumping action. Arydox: Project Golden Hawk is similar to Raptor, Tyrian, DemonStar, Strayfire and the AMIGA classic SWIV. The games main features are:
- three totally different races of enemies,
- big boss at the end of every episode (one for each races),
- minibosses at the end of every level,
- 18 different levels (from easier to harder, space and surface missions),
- 31 different types of enemies,
- nine different weapon types to upgrade your ships firepower to the max,
- shields, bonus points, bonus lives, kill-all bonuses, ...
- The game can be controlled using the arrow keys or using your mouse.

Breakout Casino is a great and quite unusual pastime where you play the Arkanoid-style game with flashy casino chips, trying to win as many as you can and getting a whole range of bonuses on the way.
The goal of the game is to win all the chips from the casino. There are many types of chips, bonuses, awards, and other tricks that will entertain you all the way through the game levels. The game runs on all major Linux flavors.
Whats in the registered game:
- three skill levels with increasing difficulty, something for everyone
- Free Pick mode - choose level you want to play in any order
- 100 different game levels available
- save your best results, and take part in the top players contest on the Web
- runs on major Linus flavors (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and others)
- free technical support by e-mail
- upgrade to new versions is free for registered users

Gish isnt your average hero, in fact hes not your average anything.. see Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend Brea goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open man hole and pulls Brea into the ground below.

Following Breas calls for help Gish suddenly finds himself in the subterranean sewers of Dross, a long forgotten city filled with twisting corridors, evil traps and some of the most demented creatures imaginable.

With his gelatinous structure as his only means of defense Gish must follow the echoing cries of his damsel in distress deep into the earth bellow. What freakish creatures dwell in this subterranean land? Who is Breas captor? And just how far down does the rabbit hole go?
Life isnt easy when youre a 12 pound ball of tar...

Marble Blast Gold is an arcade action game with simple yet addictive gameplay, suitable for players of any age. In the rich cartoon landscape of Marble Blast Gold, players will race their marbles through moving platforms, dangerous hazards, sparkling treasures and power up enhancements in an effort to complete each course in record time.
Marble Blast Gold introduces new players to the game with a set of progressively more difficult beginner training levels, each designed to showcase a power up or game hazard. The hazards players will face in Marble Blast include powerful fans, whirling tornados, land mines, pinball-style bumpers, narrow catwalks, moving pistons, dizzying chasms, and more.
To get past these obstacles, players can find and use five different ability enhancing power ups - the SuperSpeed, SuperJump, SuperBounce, Shock Absorber and Gyrocopter. Some levels contain gravity modifiers, which allow the player to change the direction of gravity.
Marble Blast Gold comes with 100 whimsical and challenging levels, as well as the ability for advanced players to craft and share their own levels. Each level has "gold standard" set for the high score, so you can test your skills against the record gold times. Marble Blast Gold is sure to provide many hours of fun for the whole family.
Main features:
Beginner Levels- Are designed for learning how to play Marble Blast Gold. Here are some samples:
- Learning to Roll - Getting ready to roll takes some practice.
- Jump Training - Using the space bar to jump to the upper ramp.
- Air Movement - Spinning the marble in mid-air to guide your fall.
- Platform Training - Catching the platform to move between towers.
- Learn to SuperJump - Using the SuperJump powerup to the big leaps.
- Learn the SuperSpeed - Using SuperSpeed to get where you need to go.
- Gyrocopter - Teach your marble to fly!
- SuperBounce - Using the left mouse button to power up your SuperBounce.
- ShockAbsorber - Minimize your fall with the SuperAbsorber
- Gravity Helix - Fiddle with physics and roll your marble upside down.
- Bumper Training - Avoid them unless you enjoy being a first person pinball.
- Duct Fan Hazards - This level will blow you away, literally.
- Mine Field - Some times hitting a mine can be a Blast, but doesnt get high score.
- Tornado Bowl, Trapdoors & Pitfalls Oh my! - Did we mention falling off the platform is nearly unrecoverable?
Intermediate Levels The fun really takes off on these levels, here are just a few:
- Skate Park - You gotta skate for the gems.
- Fork in the Road - When you come to fork in the road take it.
- Marbletris - Collect all the gems in less than a minute.
- SkeetBall Bonus - Go through the highest opening for the largest time bonus.
- Gauntlet - Gives time trials a whole new meaning.
- The Wave - Surf the wave and collect all the gems in less than 45 seconds.
- Monster Speedway - Youll need to take a pit stop to finish the race.
- Upward Spiral - Follow the yellow brick road to the top.
Advanced Levels This is where you know if youre up to the Marble Blast challenge:
- A-Maze-ing - You may feel like a rat in a maze before you finish this level. The Gold edition provides 28 additional expert uber levels to test even the most skilled of players.
- Half Pipe Elite - Grab the gems as you do trick moves between the half-pipes.
- Eshers Race - Find the gems as quickly as you can.
- Skyscraper - Deliver all the gems to the top of the skyscraper.
- Tube Treasure - Totally tubular this level makes finding the gems fastest a pipe dream.
- To the Moon - You gotta shoot your way to the moon or at least to the landing pad..
- Around the World in 30 seconds - Not for those afraid of heights
- Will o Wisp - Dont make a miss step.
Gold Edition 28 advanced levels to challenge even expert players:
- Airwalk - Defy gravity as you manuver over a field of fans.
- Battlements - Make your way to the inner keep of the castle.
- Pinball Wizard - No arcade is complete without a game of pinball.
- King of the Mountain - You must pass a series of challenges to assend up the path to the peak.