Puzzle DS
Not the most expressive of titles, is it? On booting up, though, you know exactly what you're in for. Puzzle DS is a reproduction of those slidey puzzle devices where you had to recreate a picture by sliding tiles. The game has a veritable Christmas theme, with snow falling on the top-screen graphic and the pictures recreating festive scenes. It works well, much better than moving numbered tiles into order. It boasts 20 levels and a choice of two languages as well, which is a boon - it's great to see home brew programmers paying attention to detail and giving their games lastability.
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Entries so far...
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Breakout DS The arcade classic finds its way on to the Nintendo DS thanks to Max Media Player. |
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DSokoban Clever treasure puzzle game with puzzles ranging from easy-peasy to tricky enough to make you pull your hair out in frustration. |
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DSudoku The pen-and-paper classic comes to the DS, and the developer has put a great deal of effort into turning it into a videogame. |
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Earth Invaders Positioned at the foot of the screen Space Invaders style, You blasts out bullets with attitude for as long as your stylus is on the touchscreen. |
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Super Snake DS Guide your roving reptile around the screen, eating the fruit and food scattered around the playing area. |
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Warrior Training an interesting mix of game styles. |
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AMAP4DS A map of the London Underground is always a handy thing to have when visiting the capital. This is the Nintendo DS version. |
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Stringy Things DS Stringy Things DS is a compendium of word games. |
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Minesweeper DS Fans of classic gaming will soon be able to play it on the move. |
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DDRlite It does what it says on the tin, with no real surprises. |
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Battleship Now here’s a game worth playing! A fair old rendition of the classic pencil-and-paper offering. |
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Memory What can you say about Memory that isn’t obvious from the screenshots? |
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Tic Tac Toe This one’s Noughts and Crosses on the DS. |
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Prohibition Interesting – an Amstrad CPC game brought to the DS in an unofficial conversion. |
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Joggle DS It’s daunting at first, but as you sit and think, all sorts of words present themselves. |
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PaddleBattleDS Now here’s a text-book example of how to make good use of the touchscreen and create a game which could only have appeared on the DS. |
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Fushido Another delightful puzzler! |
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IRCDS There really is an IRC client for the Nintendo DS, and it works a treat too! |
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Bahlz Played entirely on the touchscreen, Bahlz offers you a grid of spheres which you must destroy by touching groups of similarly-coloured units. |
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AquelaBall AquelaBall you must win over 75% of the screen by boxing it off. |
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DoubleSkill It’s daunting at first, but as you sit and think, all sorts of words present themselves. |
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Chain Reaction It’s often the simplest games that are the most addictive, and they don’t come much simpler than Chain Reaction. |
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HexaVirus How low can you go? |
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CarreRouge Drag a red square around with the stylus, and avoid the floating blue shapes. |
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DSChess DSChess is definitely one of the more ambitious home brew games out there. |
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No Place to Hide Now here's a killer! No Place to Hide offers ten minigames based on a single theme. |
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Pop The Balls Another simple winner, this little puzzler presents the player with a grid of coloured spheres. |
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The Collection The Collection is a compendium of four games in a single pack. |
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DiggerDS DiggerDS is a port of the classic Digger or Boulderdash game. |
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Bubbles The aim of the game is to keep your bubble alive by fusing it with smaller bubbles of the correct colour. |
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Invasion You play the part of a UFO pilot, guiding your craft around the screen with the stylus, and pressing pretty-much any button on the DS to send out a shockwave which blows the heat-seeking missiles targeted at your craft out of the sky. |
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Blazing Blocks It won't win any awards for originality, but at least it has a two-player mode. |
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Letter Link DS The longer the word, the higher the score.. |
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Sonic DS Demo Not an official Sega product, this is basically a demo of what a DS Sonic game could be like. A rough demo. A very rough demo... |
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Zi You start with a square grid, with new pieces falling onto the playing area from all four sides. |
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Puzlle DS Puzzle DS is a reproduction of those slidey puzzle devices where you had to recreate a picture by sliding tiles. |
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Caisses It's clear a lot of care and attention has been paid to the presentation here. |
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Doublons An interesting theme on the old memory chestnut. |
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ReboNDS what's going on... . |
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JNKplat A reach-the-exit platformer from the old school. |
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Marshmellow Duel DS The idea is you move around an arena made up of horizontal platforms, snatching weapons from floating bubbles and using them to strike at your opponent. |
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NumberMinds You're attempting to guess a five-digit number here. You get 24 attempts in Easy Mode, 16 in Medium and 12 in Hard Mode. |
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WiFi Blubb An interesting twist on the Battleships theme, you can move your ships as you play here. |
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Hangman Hangman is a worthy download. By retaining its focus on ease of play for quick games, it’s found its niche as a means of killing a spare minute or two.. |