Spaceball Jump

The pitch

Spaceball Jump is a thrilling, physics-based arcade game where you must navigate a glowing astronaut ball through a treacherous and beautiful galaxy. Your goal is simple: hop from planet to planet, collect all the golden stars, and unlock the portal to warp to the next sector! But space is full of dangers. You'll need to time your leaps perfectly to utilize the rotational momentum of the planets while avoiding deadly orbital spikes, giant death stars, and the endless void of space. With 25 levels of increasing difficulty—featuring moving platforms, chaotic planetary clusters, and tight precision jumps—do you have what it takes to conquer the galaxy? Features Orbital Physics: Use the spin of the planets to slingshot yourself across space. Hazards & Collectibles: Dodge spinning spike walls and collect 3 stars in every level to open the escape portal!

Controls & how it runs

Features Orbital Physics: Use the spin of the planets to slingshot yourself across space. Hazards & Collectibles: Dodge spinning spike walls and collect 3 stars in every level to open the escape portal! Controls Spaceball Jump is designed to be played with a simple, responsive one-button control scheme: Desktop / PC: * Press the Spacebar or Up Arrow key to jump. Alternatively, Left-Click anywhere on the game screen. Mobile / Tablet: * Tap anywhere on your screen to jump. Pro Tip: Pay close attention to the rotation speed and direction of your current planet—your jump trajectory will be heavily affected by it!

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.

Spaceball Jump — quick-fire questions

Does Spaceball Jump 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 Spaceball Jump?

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 Spaceball Jump 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. Spaceball Jump 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.