Arcade Cabinet Classics
Scratch coding four arcade cabinet classics to better understand early game mechanics and the technological limitations of the era. Click a game below to launch – currently only supported on desktop ↓
Asteroids
Asteroids is a space-themed multidirectional shooter arcade game designed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg released in November 1979 by Atari, Inc.
Pacman
Pac-Man is a 1980 maze action video game developed and released by Namco for arcades, directed by Toru Iwatani with a nine-man team. It became a widespread critical and commercial success and remains one of the highest-grossing and best-selling games with a cultural legacy commonly listed as one of the greatest video games ever.
Pong
Pong is a table tennis–themed arcade sports video game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics manufactured by Atari and originally released in 1972. It was one of the earliest arcade video games and was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise.
Tetris
Tetris is a puzzle game created by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984 and has been published by several companies for multiple platforms. Built on simple rules, Tetris established itself as one of the great early video games and one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time.
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