Balls: Ricochet!

The pitch

Balls: Ricochet! - an arcade shooting game. The project pays tribute to the memory of old retro gaming. If you consider yourself a true connoisseur of games, you should play this game and immerse yourself in nostalgia. The game will delight you: -Authentic gameplay -Correct ball physics -Good visual design The exciting, addictive gameplay will immerse you in the pursuit of the best score for a long time. The concept, developed in the early 80s, still works perfectly. Start playing and beat your friend's score! Also pay attention to the following parts of the "Balls", have a nice game!

Controls & how it runs

Your task in the game is to set the direction of the ball. The ball destroys blocks using the environment of the level, you can set the direction of the ball so that it ricochets off the walls and blocks, so in one shot you can knock out several blocks at once.

Getting a run going takes exactly one press: Press start, up top, and the game boots inside this page — nothing downloads in the background and no form wants your details before the first jump. The cabinet is drawn for a portrait (upright) screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. This cabinet stands tall: it was built for portrait screens, so a phone held upright gives it the frame it wants — though it will squeeze politely into any window. Given a fullscreen button, use it — scores look better at full size, that's just science.

Pro tips for arcade cabinets

• Treat your first run as a scouting mission. Arcade cabinets hide their cruelty in the second minute, not the first — learn where the difficulty spikes before you start chasing numbers.
• Small scores compound. Grab the easy pickups on every pass instead of gambling the whole run on one heroic line; heroes respawn, banked points don't evaporate.
• Watch the edges of the screen. In classic arcade design the next problem almost always enters from somewhere you weren't looking — build the habit of scanning the borders.

Balls: Ricochet! — quick-fire questions

Does Balls: Ricochet! cost anything to play?

Not a token. The cabinet is free from the first run to the five-hundredth — no wallet, no sign-up, no toll booth hiding three levels in. The adverts around the page are what keep the floor's lights on.

What sort of game is Balls: Ricochet!?

It stands on our Arcade row — that's the family it plays most like. The pitch above is the publisher's own rundown of what it throws at you and what it hands back.

Can I play Balls: Ricochet! on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. This cabinet stands tall: it was built for portrait screens, so a phone held upright gives it the frame it wants — though it will squeeze politely into any window.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Balls: Ricochet! is an HTML5 game: hit the start button and it boots on this page, and shutting the tab sweeps the cabinet clean behind you.

Before you wander off

Personal best banked, or still chasing it? Either way the full Arcade row is powered on and waiting — The main floor: 415 cabinets of pure arcade stock — the quick, the loud and the gloriously unfair. If it beeps, flashes and dares you to beat a number, it lives on this row.