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The Arcade
Retro games rebuilt for the browser. No downloads, no accounts, no ads — just the kind of thing that used to eat your afternoons.
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Best scores are saved on this device only.

Dust Off
landerBring the lander down slowly on a lit pad. The narrow pads pay more, and fuel is the only clock.
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Fence
territoryClaim ground by drawing into open space and coming home. You can only be caught while the line is unfinished.
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House Call
actionA spray can, a house full of rooms, and spiders that come down on threads. Clear the room, then out by the door.
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Kings Row
checkersCheckers by the English rules: captures are compulsory, and the far row crowns a king. Play the CPU or a friend on one screen.
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Lamplight
mazeA maze in the dark. Find three lanterns, then the door, while something you cannot fight walks the corridors.
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Last Line
dots and boxesDots and boxes. Draw the fourth side of a box and it is yours, and you go again. Play the CPU or a friend on one screen.
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Launch Window
wordGuess the word before the fuel runs out. Six wrong letters and the launch is scrubbed; three rockets a game.
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Loading Bay
puzzlePush every crate onto a mark. You can push, and you can never pull. Eight bays, each scored against the fewest moves possible.
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No Crossing
duelTwo riders who never stop, and every inch they pass becomes a wall. Play the CPU or a friend on one screen.
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Say Again
memoryFour panels and a sequence that grows by one each round. No reading, no reflexes, only remembering.
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Six Cities
defenceNothing to shoot at, only something to protect. Open the sky ahead of each missile; the score is how long you held.
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Soft Focus
hidden pictureA shape hidden in a field of dots. Look through the picture until it lifts out, guess it between yourselves, then reveal it.
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Sorted
puzzleTwo loops of beads and a turntable between them. Turn the loops, spin the middle, and get every bead home to its own colour.
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Two Hills
artilleryTwo tanks, two hills. Angle, power, wind, fire, and the ground gives way where you miss. Play the CPU or a friend on one screen.
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Wings Level
tilt mazeA tilt maze. Hold the phone level and roll the ball home past the holes. On a computer, the arrow keys tilt the board.
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Fan page: Command & Conquer
Red Alert 2 and Renegade, two games I still play online, and where to play them today.
How these are made
Each game is a self-contained page that runs in your browser. The write-up for each one — design choices, what was hard, what was fun — lives in Writing.