Retro Classic Games: the little grey brick handheld, rebuilt for the browser.

Snake, Brick Breaker, Brick Racer, Brick Stack, Pong, Tanks, Road Crossing, Invaders and Flappy, all on the same 10 by 20 brick screen as the handheld, playable in any browser and installable so it works offline.

It is live at retroclassic.games, and listed as a game inside the Lagos Life Games app.

Each game had to feel like the handheld: the same grid, the same chunky bricks, the same beeps, while working with a thumb on a phone and a keyboard on a laptop.

And a game you play once is forgotten, so it needed something new every day, and a way to see how you did against everyone else.

Every game draws through one shared engine on a 10 by 20 grid, so a screen style changes how all nine look without touching how they play: 3D bricks, neon arcade or classic LCD, each with its own synthesised sound.

The daily challenge seeds every game from the date, so everyone gets the same game, level and speed that day, and a small serverless API on Vercel with Upstash Redis keeps the world leaderboard. It is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript with no build step, and a service worker keeps it playing offline.

Retro Classic Games is live at retroclassic.games. Inside the Lagos Life Games app the whole arcade is one listing, and its daily challenge scores make up the leaderboard there.

• 9

  classic games

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  screen styles, each with its own sound

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  dependencies or build steps