diff --git a/games-puzzle/lmarbles/files/lmarbles-1.0.8-gentoo.patch b/games-puzzle/lmarbles/files/lmarbles-1.0.8-gentoo.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 160b6d0f79d5c..0000000000000
--- a/games-puzzle/lmarbles/files/lmarbles-1.0.8-gentoo.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-diff -ru lmarbles-1.0.8.orig/Makefile.am lmarbles-1.0.8/Makefile.am
---- lmarbles-1.0.8.orig/Makefile.am	2009-10-26 16:01:08.000000000 -0400
-+++ lmarbles-1.0.8/Makefile.am	2009-11-07 13:23:55.994140203 -0500
-@@ -4,11 +4,6 @@
- README-SDL.txt TODO LMarbles.prj lmarbles32.gif lmarbles48.gif \
- lmarbles.desktop.in
- 
--desktopdir = $(datadir)/applications
--desktop_DATA = lmarbles.desktop
--icondir = $(datadir)/icons
--icon_DATA = lmarbles48.gif
--
- AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
- 
- WIN32_TEXT = AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL README README-SDL.txt TODO marbles.spec
diff --git a/games-puzzle/lmarbles/lmarbles-1.0.8.ebuild b/games-puzzle/lmarbles/lmarbles-1.0.8.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 59381278471ac..0000000000000
--- a/games-puzzle/lmarbles/lmarbles-1.0.8.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=5
-inherit autotools eutils games
-
-DESCRIPTION="puzzle game inspired by Atomix and written in SDL"
-HOMEPAGE="http://lgames.sourceforge.net/LMarbles/"
-SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/lgames/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-DEPEND="media-libs/libsdl[video]
-	media-libs/sdl-mixer"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-src_prepare() {
-	mv configure.{in,ac}
-	rm *.m4
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-gentoo.patch
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	default
-	newicon lmarbles48.gif ${PN}.gif
-	make_desktop_entry lmarbles LMarbles /usr/share/pixmaps/${PN}.gif
-	dohtml src/manual/*
-	prepgamesdirs
-}