Basketball Stars

The pitch

Basketball Stars is a cool 2-player basketball game by MadPuffers. Prepared for the 2025 basketball season. Choose your team and enter a challenging tournament. Control your player to perform awesome dunks and 3-pointers to win the game. Feel free to block and slap your opponent to knock him out and get the ball, and pay attention to the supershot bar on the top of the screen. Once fully loaded, you can use the hot special dunk from wherever you stand; it never fails. Be the best player!

Controls & how it runs

1 player controls WASD or arrow keys to move X/L to shoot/steal S to pump/block A+A or D+D or left/right arrow twice to dash K/Z to super shot 2 player controls To move, player 1 use the WASD keys and player 2 use arrow keys To shoot/steal, player 1 use B and player 2 use L To pump, player 1 use S and player 2 use down arrow To dash, player 1 use A/D twice and player 2 use left/right arrow twice K to super shot

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 flexible screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture. 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.

Basketball Stars — quick-fire questions

Does Basketball Stars 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 Basketball Stars?

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 Basketball Stars on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Basketball Stars 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.