MEDIA ARCADE

Arcade classics rebuilt for one thumb — a round fits in a bus stop, a new challenge lands every day, and none of it needs signal.

  • Offline mode
  • Daily challenge
  • One-thumb controls

What the arcade actually does

Classics, not museum pieces

Block-stackers, dodgers, brick-breakers and shooters, re-timed for a touchscreen. Same rules you already know, redrawn so a hit reads at arm's length on a phone.

A round starts in one tap

No lobby, no loading cutscene, no tutorial you have to sit through. Open the app, hit a cabinet, you're playing before the bus pulls away.

One challenge a day, same for everyone

Every player gets the identical seed and the identical rules. Your run is compared against the exact same board, so beating a friend means something.

High scores that hold

Per-game boards and a daily board. Scores are kept with the run that made them, so a top entry can be looked at rather than just believed.

Full offline mode

Every cabinet plays with no connection — tunnel, plane, basement, dead zone. Scores queue up locally and post themselves the moment you're back online.

Ways to play

Four doors into the same arcade. Switch between them whenever you like.

Quick Play

Pick a cabinet, play until you lose, hit rematch. The default way in.

  • The full cabinet library
  • Instant restart on the same screen
  • Personal best shown on every run
Most played

Daily Challenge

One shared board, one shot, everyone on the same footing until it resets.

  • Identical seed for every player
  • Streak counter for consecutive days
  • Result card you can send to a friend

Board Chase

Play straight at a ranking: global, friends, or the score sitting one place above you.

  • Per-game high-score boards
  • Friends-only filter
  • Ghost target of the next rank up

Offline Run

The arcade with the signal switched off. Nothing is locked behind a connection.

  • Every cabinet playable offline
  • Scores stored on device
  • Automatic sync when you reconnect

Modes may shift as the arcade grows — the offline library never shrinks.

From the test crew

★★★★★
I play it on the Tube, which is the whole point — it never once asked me to wait for a connection.
Dani
★★★★★
The daily challenge is the thing. Same board as my brother, no excuses, loser pays for coffee.
Marcus
★★★★☆
Brick-breaker feels right on a phone, which I didn't expect. My thumb isn't covering the ball any more.
Priya

Straight answers

Does it really play with no connection?

Yes. Every cabinet in the library runs on the device. Offline runs are stored locally and posted to the boards the next time you're online, so a flight doesn't cost you a streak.

Are runs timed or capped by energy?

Quick Play has no lives system and no cooldown — you lose, you restart. The Daily Challenge is one attempt on a shared board by design, so the comparison stays fair.

How are high scores kept honest?

Scores are tied to the run that produced them rather than submitted as a bare number, and the daily board uses one identical seed for every player.

How do I get in right now?

Send the form below. Access goes out in batches to the people on the list, with a note saying which build you're on and what we'd like you to break.

Get on the access list

Tell us where to find you and we'll put you in the next batch of players.

  • Someone on the arcade team reads every message — it isn't an autoresponder.
  • We reply by email, in the order requests arrive.
  • The first reply covers which build you get and how to send scores back to us.