Arcade Floor / Platform Row / Origin
Origin
The pitch
Collect the orbs to unlock the door and escape! Use the Arrow Keys or WASD to move and jump. To activate the door, collect all the black orbs. In later levels, you'll be able to double jump. You can press W or UP twice to double jump. However, you only have a limited amount of chances to do this, indicated by the JUMP counter in the upper left corner of the screen. Make sure you avoid the spikes!
Controls & how it runs
Desktop Controls: ← (Left Arrow) / A: Move left. → (Right Arrow) / D: Move right. ↑ (Up Arrow) / Space / W: Jump. R: Restart. Q: To Menu. M: Mute. Mobile Controls: On-screen Buttons.
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 platform cabinets
- Jump from the very edge. Platform cabinets measure your takeoff in pixels, and the last two pixels of a ledge are the difference between a clear gap and a short fall.
- Learn the landing, not the jump. Air control differs per cabinet, but the habit transfers: plan where you'll land before you ever leave the ground.
- Checkpoints change the maths. Once one is banked, spend the next stretch experimenting — bold attempts are free when the reset point is ten seconds behind you.
Origin — quick-fire questions
Does Origin 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 Origin?
It stands on our Platform 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 Origin 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. Origin 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 Platform row is powered on and waiting — Seventy-seven platforms-and-peril cabinets: gaps, spikes, moving floors and the eternal question of whether that ledge is reachable. (It is. Barely.)
