Retro Games: Classic Arcade

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About this game

Retro Games is a collection of classic-style games built from the ground up, wrapped in a cream-coloured retro gamepad. Pick a title from the list and play right away - no menus to dig through, no accounts to create.

Every game is drawn with simple shapes and bold colours on a CRT-inspired screen, and every one is played with the same on-screen D-pad and buttons.


BOARD GAMES

Play against a built-in AI opponent, with three difficulty levels in each.

- Chess - full rules including castling, en passant, promotion, stalemate, the fifty-move rule and threefold repetition. The engine uses iterative deepening alpha-beta search with a transposition table, quiescence search and move ordering, so it plays a real game rather than shuffling pieces.
- Checkers - forced captures, multi-jump chains and king promotion.
- Reversi - positional evaluation and mobility, with exact endgame solving once few squares remain.
- Nine Men's Morris - all three phases: placing, moving and flying, with mill detection.


PUZZLE GAMES

- Drop Blocks - stack falling pieces to clear lines on an 8 x 16 field. Seven piece shapes mixing three, four and five cells, with a landing preview and a next-piece window.
- Gem Match - swap neighbouring gems to line up three or more. Chains multiply your score, and the board reshuffles itself when no moves are left.
- Number Merge - slide tiles together to combine matching numbers, with three undos per run.
- Minesweeper - three board sizes, a guaranteed safe first move, chain opening on empty squares, and one-tap clearing around completed numbers.
- Memory Match - twelve pairs of hand-drawn symbols, with a combo bonus for consecutive matches.


ARCADE AND ACTION

- Block Breaker - armoured bricks, four power-ups, multi-ball and a different brick layout every stage.
- Space Shooter - destructible bunkers, a bonus saucer and formations that speed up as their numbers thin.
- Sky Raider - vertical scrolling shooter with sine-wave formations, three weapon levels and a boss fight.
- Missile Guard - defend six cities from incoming missiles using chain explosions and a limited supply of interceptors.
- Snake - bonus food on a timer and new obstacles appearing as you level up.
- Road Hopper - hop lane by lane across traffic and floating logs before the clock runs out.
- Lunar Lander - manage gravity, fuel and tilt to touch down on multiplier pads over randomly generated terrain.
- Pong Duel - first to seven, with spin, shrinking paddles and an opponent that sharpens as it scores.
- Tank Duel - best of five in a symmetrical arena, with shells that bounce once off walls.


FEATURES

- Landscape gamepad layout with a D-pad, action buttons and START / SELECT
- Diagonal input on the D-pad and multiple buttons at once
- A separate best score saved for every game, shown on the game list
- NEW BEST appears the moment you beat your own record
- Pause any real-time game with SELECT
- Difficulty selection in the board games and in Minesweeper
- Undo in Number Merge
- Everything renders on a fixed virtual resolution, so the difficulty is identical on any screen size


CONTROLS

D-pad to move or aim. A and B for actions. START to restart after a game over. SELECT to pause, or to open the difficulty menu in board games. Each game shows its own control hint next to its name in the list.

Ratings and reviews

This has a LOT of potential! Some really good games come with this! I have to play some to see how the actual gameplay is and I will be updating my review immediately thereafter. Until then keep up the good work, and keep adding new things! UPDATED: So after the ONE time I opened the app and it worked fine, nothing but a dead black screen now. Nothing. 1 star, uninstalled. I knew it was too good to be true.

A bit fiddley with annoying adverts on the screen. Limited games. Games take a long time to load. Otherwise not too bad.

Used to be good, now the interface is messed up to a point you cannot start anything. Edit: devs responded and fixed it and it looks good now 👍

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