The arcade is five games so far, drawn in the same neon the rest of the site runs on. There is nothing to install and nobody to sign in as. A game starts when you press a key or tap the screen.
None of them emulates a real machine. They are new games in old shapes: a serpent on a grid, a wall of bricks, a runner on the rooftops, a road at night, and an overworld with eight dungeons underneath it. Those shapes fit in a browser without pretending to be a museum. Your best score sits above the screen the next time you come back, and it never leaves your device; the privacy page covers where it lives.
The games
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Neon Serpent
Steer a growing serpent around a 24 by 24 grid and eat the sun. The walls are solid, and after enough dinners so are you.
Play
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Sunset Breaker
Fifty bricks in sunset colors, three balls, and a paddle that answers to keys or a finger. Clearing the wall builds a faster one.
Play
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Rooftop Run
A platformer over downtown at dusk. Jump the gaps and flatten the drones on the way to the radio mast.
Play
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Last Call
A night drive down an empty freeway, three lanes and traffic that is slower than you are. Clip one and you spin.
Play
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Twisted Dragon
The big one. Forty-eight screens of a Los Angeles that never happened, eight dungeons under it, and eight shards to carry back to the Mirror.
Play
House rules
- Starting
- Any key, or a tap on the screen.
- Pausing
- P pauses and resumes. Leaving the tab pauses on its own; the game waits where you left it.
- Controls
- Arrow keys or WASD on a keyboard, with space as a second jump button. On a phone, swipe to steer the serpent and drag to move the paddle; the runner goes where you hold the screen.
- Full screen
- The button under the screen, or F on a keyboard. Every game here takes it, and the picture is drawn at the size of your screen rather than stretched up from a small one.
- Scores
- Kept in your browser's own storage and sent nowhere. Clearing site data clears them.
- Saving
- Twisted Dragon is long enough to need one, so it writes where you are to the same storage every time you change screens. Nothing else here saves anything but a number.