{{short description|2006 video game}} {{Infobox video game | image = File:Title_screen_of_2007_Flash_game_Gamma_Bros.png | title = Gamma Bros | developer = PixelJAM Games | released = 2006 | genre = Shoot 'em up | modes = Single-player | publisher = PixelJAM Games | artist = Richard Grillotti | programmer = Miles Tilmann, Wayne Marsh | producer = Mark Denardo }}
'''''Gamma Bros''''' is a 2006 Flash shoot 'em up game developed and published by American game indie studio PixelJAM Games, released as a free online title.<ref name="igf" /> It was nominated for "Best Web Browser Game" at the 2007 Independent Games Festival.<ref name=igf>{{cite news |last1=Wallis |first1=Alistair |title=Road To The IGF: Pixeljam's Gamma Bros. |url=https://www.gamedeveloper.com/pc/road-to-the-igf-pixeljam-s-i-gamma-bros-i- |access-date=3 January 2023 |work=Game Developer |date=22 September 2006 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kongregate Secures $5 Million in Venture Funding |url=http://press-releases.techwhack.com/12033-kongregate-2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716202206/http://press-releases.techwhack.com/12033-kongregate-2/ |archive-date=2011-07-16 |access-date=2009-08-18}}</ref><ref name="destructoid">{{cite news |last1=Burch |first1=Anthony |title=GDC 09: Making Web Games: The Indie Experience |url=https://www.destructoid.com/gdc-09-making-web-games-the-indie-experience/ |access-date=29 December 2022 |work=Destructoid |date=25 March 2009 |language=en-CA |archive-date=29 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229141445/https://www.destructoid.com/gdc-09-making-web-games-the-indie-experience/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Asheville">{{cite news |last1=Byrd |first1=Caitlin |title=Asheville indie game company isn't playing around |url=https://www.citizen-times.com/story/money/business/2014/11/08/asheville-indie-game-company-playing-around/18707205/ |access-date=29 December 2022 |work=The Asheville Citizen Times}}</ref> It was the studio's first game after the mini-game ''Ratmaze''.<ref name="igf" /> The game was also released as a smartphone game in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nelson |first1=Jared |title=GDC 2016: ''Gamma Bros.'' and ''Wrath of Pegasus'' Heading to Mobile Courtesy of Pixeljam Games |url=https://toucharcade.com/2016/03/18/gdc-2016-gamma-bros-and-wrath-of-pegasus/}}</ref>
In the game, the player takes control of brothers Buzz and Zap Gamma who are on their way home from a galactic commute and must survive hordes of oncoming enemies.<ref name="Asheville" />
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==External links== *{{official|https://www.pixeljam.com/gammabros/}}
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