Arcade Floor / Arcade Row / Fat Hedgehog Boris
Fat Hedgehog Boris
The pitch
Fat Hedgehog Boris is a funny platformer where every hit makes Boris fatter and changes how he moves. Run, jump, defeat enemies, collect coins, avoid dangerous traps, fight bosses, and reach the finish while trying to keep Boris in good shape.
Controls & how it runs
Move left and right using the arrow keys or the on-screen controls. Press Space to jump. Press Space again while in the air to perform a downward attack. Defeat enemies from above, break certain blocks, collect coins, avoid traps, and reach the end of each level. Taking damage makes Boris fatter and harder to control.
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 landscape (wide) screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. This cabinet runs wide: landscape screens flatter it, so tip a phone on its side or hand it a tablet or desktop and let it stretch out. 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.
Fat Hedgehog Boris — quick-fire questions
Does Fat Hedgehog Boris 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 Fat Hedgehog Boris?
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 Fat Hedgehog Boris on my phone?
Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. This cabinet runs wide: landscape screens flatter it, so tip a phone on its side or hand it a tablet or desktop and let it stretch out.
Do I need to install anything first?
Nothing whatsoever. Fat Hedgehog Boris 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.
