Zune applications were

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s and

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s that were available for

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portable media players. Some of the games were

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-capable and could be played with other Zune devices within

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reach. Zune HD games and applications were available in the "Apps" section of Zune Marketplace for free. There were forty-two games and twenty other applications officially released for the Zune HD over the span of two years. On August 31, 2012, the "Apps" section of the Zune Marketplace and users' Zune media collections were disabled by Microsoft within the

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, although it can be reenabled by editing the software's registries. Note: In the listed instructions for the registries, "HCU" refers to HKEY_CURRENT_USER and "Apps" refers to

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apps, not Zune HD apps. Replace "Apps" with "Games" to reenable Zune HD apps in the Collection and Marketplace tabs. All apps could still be downloaded directly to Zune HD devices using their own "Marketplace" option. As of December 2013, registry edits no longer allow the Zune app marketplace to work and apps can no longer be purchased directly via the device.

List of Zune HD applications

Game was also released for

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devices. (Note: ''Space Battle 2'' is the Zune HD version of the original ''Space Battle'' for pre-HD Zune devices.)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zune Games Portable media players Media players Lists of video games by platform Zune