There could well be a game in here somewhere, but I'm darned if I can work out what's going on...

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|  | Breakout DS The arcade classic finds its way on to the Nintendo DS thanks to Max Media Player. | 
|  | DSokoban Clever treasure puzzle game with puzzles ranging from easy-peasy to tricky enough to make you pull your hair out in frustration. | 
|  | 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. | 
|  | 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. | 
|  | Super  Snake DS Guide your roving reptile around the screen, eating the fruit and food scattered around the playing area. | 
|  | Warrior Training an interesting mix of game styles. | 
|  | AMAP4DS A map of the London Underground is always a handy thing to have when visiting the capital. This is the Nintendo DS version. | 
|  | Stringy  Things DS Stringy Things DS is a compendium of word games. | 
|  | Minesweeper  DS Fans of classic gaming will soon be able to play it on the move. | 
|  | DDRlite It does what it says on the tin, with no real surprises. | 
|  | Battleship Now here’s a game worth playing! A fair old rendition of the classic pencil-and-paper offering. | 
|  | Memory What can you say about Memory that isn’t obvious from the screenshots? | 
|  | Tic  Tac Toe This one’s Noughts and Crosses on the DS. | 
|  | Prohibition Interesting – an Amstrad CPC game brought to the DS in an unofficial conversion. | 
|  | Joggle DS It’s daunting at first, but as you sit and think, all sorts of words present themselves. | 
|  | 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. | 
|  | Fushido Another delightful puzzler! | 
|  | IRCDS There really is an IRC client for the Nintendo DS, and it works a treat too! | 
|  | Bahlz Played entirely on the touchscreen, Bahlz offers you a grid of spheres which you must destroy by touching groups of similarly-coloured units. | 
|  | AquelaBall AquelaBall you must win over 75% of the screen by boxing it off. | 
|  | DoubleSkill It’s daunting at first, but as you sit and think, all sorts of words present themselves. | 
|  | Chain  Reaction It’s often the simplest games that are the most addictive, and they don’t come much simpler than Chain Reaction. | 
|  | HexaVirus How low can you go? | 
|  | CarreRouge Drag a red square around with the stylus, and avoid the floating blue shapes. | 
|  | DSChess DSChess is definitely one of the more ambitious home brew games out there. | 
|  | No  Place to Hide Now here's a killer! No Place to Hide offers ten minigames based on a single theme. | 
|  | Pop  The Balls Another simple winner, this little puzzler presents the player with a grid of coloured spheres. | 
|  | The  Collection The Collection is a compendium of four games in a single pack. | 
|  | DiggerDS DiggerDS is a port of the classic Digger or Boulderdash game. | 
|  | Bubbles The aim of the game is to keep your bubble alive by fusing it with smaller bubbles of the correct colour. | 
|  | 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. | 
|  | Blazing Blocks It won't win any awards for originality, but at least it has a two-player mode. | 
|  | Letter Link DS The longer the word, the higher the score.. | 
|  | 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... | 
|  | Zi You start with a square grid, with new pieces falling onto the playing area from all four sides. | 
|  | Puzlle DS Puzzle DS is a reproduction of those slidey puzzle devices where you had to recreate a picture by sliding tiles. | 
|  | Caisses It's clear a lot of care and attention has been paid to the presentation here. | 
|  | Doublons An interesting theme on the old memory chestnut. | 
|  | ReboNDS what's going on.... | 
|  | JNKplat A reach-the-exit platformer from the old school. | 
|  | 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. | 
|  | 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. | 
|  | WiFi Blubb An interesting twist on the Battleships theme, you can move your ships as you play here. | 
|  | 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.. |