Arcade Games

Timeless classic arcade games. Snake, Tetris, Brick Breaker — can't stop playing!

24 games available

Arcade games are pure, immediate fun — the kind you can pick up in five seconds and chase a high score on for an hour.

Our arcade shelf is a love letter to the classics. Snake and Space Invaders recreate the 1978–90s coin-op feel; Slope and HexGL push it into 3D with neon speed and breakneck racing. Ski Free is a faithful port of the 1984 Apple II original, yeti and all. Beatrix, Shape Experiment and Zop are all one-input or one-verb games that turn a single button into a score chase, and One Button Games collects 111 of them behind a single-key interface. Save The Forest is a welcome change of pace — a firefighting puzzle instead of a twitch test. They are built for reflexes, not for reading manuals.

The magic of arcade gaming is the score chase. Because rounds are short and failure is instant, you are always one run away from beating your best — that tight feedback loop is exactly why these games have lasted 40+ years.

All of them run right in your browser with keyboard, mouse, or gamepad support, so you can relive the arcade anywhere, on any device.

Snake

The classic mobile game! Eat food, grow longer, don't hit yourself or the walls.

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Slope

A legendary 3D endless runner where you control a ball racing down a neon-lit slope!

30 seconds to 5 minutes

Space Invaders

The legendary 1978 arcade shooter! Blast waves of alien invaders. Speed increases each wave!

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HexGL

A fast-paced, futuristic 3D racing game built with Three.js. Race at breakneck speeds!

2-5 minutes per race

Beatrix

A rhythm puzzle built with Phaser. Tap precisely on the beat to rotate, flip and transform tiles until each musical phrase resolves into the target pattern. All audio is synthesised at runtime with Web Audio.

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Shape Experiment

A minimalist reaction game. A canvas is filled with a solid shape and revealed one pixel at a time — name the shape before the timer runs out. Keeps a full per-shape accuracy and speed tally.

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One Button Games

Two curated one-button games built with crisp-game-lib. REBIRTH and COLOR ROLL — press, hold or double-tap, and that's the entire control scheme. Every game renders to a fixed virtual screen and scales to any display.

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Ski Free

A JavaScript port of the 1984 Apple II classic. Ski down an endless procedurally generated slope, jumping rocks and trees — and when you make it far enough, the yeti starts chasing you.

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Save The Forest

A 2013 js13kGames entry — a complete game in 13 KB of JavaScript. Race a wildfire through a forest, extinguish burning trees, and keep the burn count low before the fire front closes in. All audio is synthesised at runtime.

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Alien Invasion

Wave-based space shooter on a 320x480 canvas. March the descending aliens, dodge the bombs, and clear every wave.

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Arashi

Chain lightning across a scrolling starfield. Every hit you land feeds the next, and the chain is the whole game.

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Cyber Pong

Pong with a maths twist. Every rally asks you a times-table question, and getting it wrong hands the ball to your opponent.

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Digger

The 1983 Commodore 64 classic, rebuilt in JavaScript. Dig down, scoop up every diamond, and beat the clock and the falling rock.

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HTML5 Asteroids

The arcade original rebuilt in a browser. Vector wireframe, thrust, inertia and wrapping screen edges.

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Monster Wants Candy

A vertical platformer about a monster, a pile of candy, and a very long drop. Collect it all before it runs out.

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Space Crusade

A vertical Phaser shooter. Hold the line against descending formations and pick off the bonus targets.

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Space Shooter

A neon arcade shooter with linked volume controls, and an optional second screen for your phone.

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Spashal

A retro vertical shooter with a full-screen mode, a screenshot button and a distinctly 1990s presentation.

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Survivor

A Commodore 64 BASIC remake of Defender, rendered as an authentic green-screen terminal session.

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Zed Invaders

A mash-up of Space Invaders and Fruit Ninja. Fill the bar, then slice the fruit before the invaders land.

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Trigger Rally

A fast-paced arcade rally racer built with Three.js and WebGL. Drift around hairpin corners and blast through checkpoints in a rally car that wants to leave the road.

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Avabranch

A minimalist endless jumper. Guide Ava through an endless corridor of moving blocks and keep moving as long as you can.

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Duck Hunt JS

The NES Duck Hunt ported to JavaScript and HTML5 — complete with a level editor so you can build your own hunting stages.

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Psiral

A spiral-pattern arcade game and winner of the 2013 GitHub Game Off jam — climb the spiral as fast as you can.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What devices work best for arcade games?

Desktop, phone, or tablet all work. Most support keyboard and gamepad, and several (Snake, Slope) also support touch controls.

Do I need an emulator or installer?

No. The games run straight in the page — just click and play, no extra software required.

Are the arcade games free?

All of them are free, with no download fee and no in-app purchases.

Can slower players still enjoy them?

Yes. While arcade games favor reaction speed, titles like Snake let you set the pace, so practice alone can earn a high score.

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