Color Explosion and Bubble Shooter Deluxe Software for Windows

Tropical Puzzle
$19.95 - MadGears

Tropical Puzzle lets you immerse yourself into a wonderful tropical world with sandy beaches, crystal-clear water and? a bit of puzzle-solving for your brains. The principle of the gameplay is downright simple. You must combine balls to make a horizontal or vertical line of three or more balls that match in color. The line explodes and clears the playing field. The challenge of the game is additional balls that appear on the playing field when your move doesn?t result in making a line. Additional challenge comes with blue tiles on the playing field. You must make lines over these tiles in order to remove all of them. This opens the way to the next level.

The game gives you a choice of two play modes: Adventure and Endless. Hitting on the Adventure button takes you on a tropical journey with over 80 levels to go. Unique to each level is the design of a playing field, which varies from level to level and never looks the same. This adds excitement to the gameplay. The Endless mode is good for exercising brains and reaction because the gameplay has no time restrictions. You must try to clear the field from constantly appearing balls for as long as you can. The game gives you an ability to share your score with other players by publishing your high score results in the online high scores table.

Tropical Puzzle shines with various interesting bonuses, including Hameleon, Bomb, Bad Balls, Freezing Balls and Remove Color Balls. The good thing about Hameleon balls is that you can combine them with balls of any color. Bomb Balls explode when moved and blow up all balls nearby. Bad Balls are bad because they do not explode when you combine them in a line. The best thing is to remove them by using Bomb Balls. Another type of bonuses is Freezing Balls, which can be used to stop new balls from appearing on the playing field when the move doesn?t result in an explosion. Remove Balls blow up all balls of the same color on the entire field.

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Bubble Shooter Deluxe
$18 - Absolutist.com

Your goal is to clear all the bubbles from the board, scoring as many points as possible. You shoot at them with more bubbles, and when three or more of the same color come together, they all explode. Point your mouse to where you want the next bubble to go (the arrow at the bottom will indicate that direction), and click to fire the shot.
The more bubbles blow up at one shot, the increasingly more points you gain (six ones at one shot is better than two three-bubble shots). Besides, those bubbles that fell apart from the rest will explode too. It is well worth trying to arrange such avalanches, as they will give you ten times more points than ordinary bursts.
If your shot fails to detonate any bubbles, you get a foul, and when there are several fouls, a new line of bubbles appears at the top. The number of misfires allowed before bubbles will advance again, is shown in the bottom left corner.
Various skill levels differ by the number of shots that you are allowed to fire without success.
There can be no draw in this game, either you clean all the bubbles off, or they move all the way down on you.
It includes four great game modes, Arcade - for people who like quick action, Strategy - the classic mode, Sniper - if you are a good shooter and Marathon - mode with endless levels.
There are other improvements, your photo in the TOP10, 3D explosions, smooth flying of the bubbles - download and try this new release.
In the registered game you will have:
great 3D graphics enhancements in the latest release
several game levels with increasing difficulty, new level - Easy Ride
Arcade, Strategy, Sniper and Marathon modes - to suit your temper (new!)
tune various options to your taste
listen to your favorite tunes while playing
save your best results, and take part in the top players contest on the Web - now you can save games under your name
free technical support by e-mail
upgrade to new versions is free for registered users

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Magic Balls
$19.95 - Agentix Software

Even children can play this jolly game. This addictive puzzle is free of violence or stress. Just have a try and you won't put it down! Cheating won't not work, whereas logic will be of great use for players.

Playing this game is easy as a pie but victory implies here a much more strenuous and challenging undertaking. Simply use the mouse and choose two adjoining balls you want to swap, so that you'll get a one-color line. A subsequent explosion will mean that you've just scored your first points. The smaller the board, the more precious your points are. If you are deadlocked and no moves are left, then the game is lost.

Along with an engaging gameplay, you will discover nice graphics and a lighting effect that gives the balls a cute 3D look, adding elegance to the whole game. What's more, you can adjust the light sensitivity to your comfortable level. Apart from playing, you can listen to the gentle voice of the built-in midi player which is another novelty. Vividly textured balls are one more reason to buy this brilliant puzzle. Try Magic Balls and become a puzzle expert!

Key features:
* Nice graphics and lighting effects;
* A built-in midi player.

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Max 2: Counterattack
$0 - Piotr Chodzinski

Max 2 is an extended 2D platform game. To play this game you need a lot of dexterity and a small dose of logical thinking ability. Goal is really easy - just kill all the enemies and get to next level :). But of course there's more handicaps than only enemies: you can find moving platforms, electric platforms (which can kill Max on contact) and many more. One of the most important things in this game is collecting money (which usually look like a pack of banknotes). You need to collect lots of money to get bonuses, secret levels access, and to complete game :). Hey, I didn't tell anything about graphic & music yet. In my personal opinion graphic is great, but I don't need to tell you everything, you should just watch screens in full scale and you will see it on your own. All movable objects are 256 colors sprites with smooth animation (movable objects are: player, enemies etc.). Other elements of this game are made from the hi-res generated textures. Backgrounds, platforms and other not first-perspective graphic are full color (17 millions of colors) great images. Music has very high quality and it's a great supplement for the game, even if it's only in form of midi files. Almost everything in this game has it own sound: ricochets, enemies' hit, explosions etc. Game has a big playability so you won't be disappointed.

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Explotris
$0 - Justgames.ch

If you find tetris a little too mild for your taste, play Explotris, the new block adjusting game with an explosive twist. Explotris is a challenging block game which is quite similar to tetris, but with a few pleasant surprises to give you more excitement. With firecrackers and bombs inserted in the blocks, it seems like everything is just waiting to explode. It depends on you to twist the blocks in order to make the biggest explosions. The main objective of the game is to make as many blocks disappear before the blocks stack up to the limit. And you can do that by forming complete horizontal lines, or simply landing a cracker on top of the stack. In Explotris, new block-types are introduced to make the game more challenging, and special features such as colored blocks make the scoring more interesting. There are also ?space? bombs at your disposal which you can activate whenever you wish to ignite an explosion. This game adds a lot more spice to the usual blocks rotation games. If you are looking for a game that challenges your wit and reflexes, you will have a blasting good time with Explotris. It?s truly exploding fun!

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Ping Ball
$14.95 - Kelpiesoft

Ping Ball is a fun new arcade puzzler for all the family. The idea is simple; bounce the ping balls around the screen by dropping mirrors in their path, and use them to collect all the spinning gems and crystals on each level. You'll need to need to make use of the sliding ice, explosives and other objects to navigate your way past the slime, fire, mines and other hazards on each level.

There is an adjustable speed setting so you can choose to slow the game play down and concentrate on the puzzles, or speed it up to require quicker reactions. There is also a 'Kid Mode' that will relax the rules for younger players. The simple mouse control and tutorial makes this game very easy to pick up, and the entertaining non-violent game-play is suitable for all members of the family.

Ping Ball features CD quality sound effects and music. The soundtrack is a mixture of pop, dance, techno and drum & bass. Ping Ball's smoothly animated graphics are in the highest quality 16.7 million color format. Even with the spectacular explosions and other flashy effects, Ping Ball will still run on older computers - as it was developed by a veteran games programmer. It comes complete with 30 levels and 3 bonus mini-games, plus a fully functional level editor that you can use to design your own levels. The mini-games (a mixture of arcade and puzzles) are unlocked by completing a level pack, but once unlocked can be played as often as you like.

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