School Of Basketball

The pitch

It is the basketball arcade game in which you must try to score baskets in all the different game modes available. A basketball school opens its doors for enthusiasts like you. Do you know where to aim the ball so that you always hit the basket? Do you know any secret strategies? You have a limited number of balls and every time you miss, you also miss one ball. However, if you never miss, on the contrary, sometimes the ball will be added. How many points will you score?

Controls & how it runs

Touch and drug anywhere on screen to throw a ball! You can play either arcade, time attack, and distance mode. Arcade mode gives you 10 balls to use; you must continue to score baskets although it becomes harder each time you score. Time attack mode requires you to score as many baskets within the time limit as possible; you have unlimited balls but limited time. Distance mode allows you to increase the distance of your shot each time that you score. The distance decreases every time you miss a shot, don’t let the distance reach zero; otherwise, it is game over.

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.

School Of Basketball — quick-fire questions

Does School Of Basketball 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 School Of Basketball?

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 School Of Basketball 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. School Of Basketball 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.