Wing Dunk

The pitch

Flap your winged basketball and dunk it through the hoops! Tap to fly, dive into each hoop from above, and chain perfect SWISH shots to build huge combos and set the ball on fire. Unlock 31 skins by completing challenges, climb 4 leaderboards and beat the other players one by one. Simple to learn, hard to master!

Controls & how it runs

Tap the screen, click, or press Space / Up arrow to flap your wings and fly up. Gravity pulls the ball down. Drop into each hoop from the top to score. Go through without touching the rim for a SWISH: chain them for bigger combos and more points. Don't miss a hoop, fall off the bottom, or fly off the top! Complete challenges to unlock new balls and wings, and pass the players ahead of you in the ranking.

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.

Wing Dunk — quick-fire questions

Does Wing Dunk 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 Wing Dunk?

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 Wing Dunk 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. Wing Dunk 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.