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A collection of eleven classic arcade games built with HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript. Experience nostalgic gameplay with modern design aesthetics.

The timeless block-stacking puzzle game. Arrange falling tetrominoes to clear lines and score points.

• How to Play:
  • Select your difficulty level (Easy, Normal, Hard, Nightmare)
  • Use ← → to move pieces left/right
  • Use ↑ to rotate pieces
  • Use ↓ for soft drop (faster fall)
  • Press Space for hard drop (instant placement)
  • Clear complete horizontal lines to score points
  • Game speeds up as you progress through levels
• Controls: Arrow keys to move/rotate, Space for hard drop, P to pause
• Difficulty Modes:
  • Easy: Relaxed pace (1.5s drop time), 15 lines per level, ghost piece and next piece preview enabled
  • Normal: Classic experience (1s drop time), 10 lines per level, all assists enabled
  • Hard: Expert pace (0.3s drop time), 4 lines per level, rapid progression, all assists enabled
  • Nightmare: Insane speed (0.2s drop time), 3 lines per level, lightning progression, no assists
• Features: Four difficulty levels, next piece preview (except Nightmare), ghost piece (except Nightmare), level progression, score tracking

Smash through bricks with precision and skill using your paddle and ball.

• How to Play:
  • Move your mouse to control the paddle
  • Keep the ball in play by bouncing it off your paddle
  • Break all bricks to complete the level
  • Different colored bricks give different points
  • Don't let the ball fall off the bottom!
  • Choose your difficulty at the start
• Controls: Mouse to move paddle
• Features: Multiple difficulty levels, particle effects, speed selection

Navigate through busy streets and treacherous rivers to reach safety.

• How to Play:
  • Guide your frog across roads avoiding cars
  • Jump on logs to cross the river safely
  • Reach the lily pads at the top to score
  • In 2-player mode, first to get 3 frogs home wins
  • Watch out for the timer!
  • Use the speed slider to adjust game difficulty
• Controls: Arrow keys to move (Player 1), WASD (Player 2 in two-player mode)
• Features: Two-player mode, adjustable game speed, retro sound effects

Defend your cities from incoming missile attacks using anti-ballistic missiles.

• How to Play:
  • Click anywhere on screen to launch a defensive missile
  • Your missiles explode at the click location
  • Use explosions to destroy incoming enemy missiles
  • Protect your 6 cities from destruction
  • Ammo refills automatically every 2 seconds
  • Survive increasingly difficult waves
  • Watch for splitting missiles in later waves!
• Controls: Click to fire missiles, Space to pause
• Features: Wave progression, auto-refilling ammo, particle effects, splitting missiles

The classic snake game where you grow longer by eating food while avoiding collisions.

• How to Play:
  • Select your difficulty level (Easy, Normal, Hard, Nightmare)
  • Guide the snake to eat the red food pellets
  • Each food item eaten makes the snake grow longer
  • Avoid hitting the walls or your own tail
  • The game speeds up as you score more points
  • Higher difficulties offer faster gameplay and score multipliers
• Controls: Arrow keys or WASD to change direction, ESC to return home
• Features: Four difficulty levels with different speeds and score multipliers, per-difficulty high score tracking, dynamic grid sizes, smooth controls, glowing visual effects

A strategic puzzle game where you trap bouncing balls by building walls to clear the playing field.

• How to Play:
  • Click anywhere to start building a wall at that position
  • Walls grow in both directions (horizontal or vertical)
  • Right-click or press Space to toggle between horizontal/vertical mode
  • If a ball hits a wall while it's being built, you lose a life
  • Clear at least 75% of the field to complete each level
  • Each new level adds one more ball and increases speed
• Controls: Click to build walls, Right-click/Space to toggle direction, P to pause
• Features: Progressive difficulty, area percentage tracking, strategic gameplay

The classic logic puzzle game where you clear a minefield using deduction and careful reasoning.

• How to Play:
  • Left-click to reveal a cell
  • Right-click to place/remove a flag on suspected mines
  • Numbers show how many mines are in the 8 adjacent cells
  • Use logic to deduce which cells contain mines
  • Flag all mines and reveal all safe cells to win
  • Choose from four difficulty levels: Easy (9x9, 10 mines), Normal (13x13, 25 mines), Hard (16x16, 40 mines), Nightmare (20x20, 80 mines)
• Controls: Left-click to reveal, Right-click to flag, Click difficulty buttons to change level
• Features: Four difficulty levels, timer, mine counter, first-click protection (never hit a mine on first click)

Navigate your spacecraft to a safe landing on the lunar surface with limited fuel.

• How to Play:
  • Control your lander's descent using thrusters
  • Land on the flat landing pads marked with multipliers (1x, 2x, 3x)
  • Keep your landing speed below 2 m/s for a safe landing
  • Land straight (minimal angle) to avoid crashing
  • Higher multiplier pads give bonus points
  • Watch your fuel gauge - no fuel means no thrust!
• Controls: ↑/W for main thruster, ←/A to rotate left, →/D to rotate right, ESC to return home
• Features: Realistic physics with gravity and momentum, multiple landing zones with score multipliers, fuel management, particle effects

The granddaddy of all video games - classic two-player paddle tennis.

• How to Play:
  • Move your paddle up and down to hit the ball
  • Score points when your opponent misses
  • First to 5 points wins the game
  • Ball speed increases with each hit
  • Choose from 4 difficulty levels that affect AI speed and paddle size
• Controls: ↑/↓ or W/S to move paddle
• Features: Four difficulty levels (Easy, Normal, Hard, Insane), particle effects, dynamic ball physics

Defend Earth from waves of descending alien invaders in this arcade classic.

• How to Play:
  • Move your cannon left and right to aim
  • Shoot the invaders before they reach Earth
  • Use barriers for cover - they can absorb enemy fire
  • Watch for the mystery UFO that appears for bonus points
  • Clear all invaders to advance to the next wave
  • Each wave moves faster than the last
• Controls: ←/→ or A/D to move, Space to shoot
• Features: Four difficulty levels, destructible barriers, mystery ship bonuses, progressive waves

Navigate through space destroying asteroids and UFOs in this vector-graphics classic.

• How to Play:
  • Control your ship with rotation and thrust (momentum-based physics)
  • Shoot asteroids to break them into smaller pieces
  • Large asteroids split into 2 medium, medium split into 2 small
  • Destroy UFOs for bonus points (they shoot back!)
  • Use hyperspace as emergency escape (but risk explosion)
  • All objects wrap around screen edges
• Controls: ↑/W for thrust, ←/→ or A/D to rotate, Space to fire, Shift for hyperspace
• Features: Four difficulty levels, physics-based movement, particle effects, score multipliers

• Modern Design: Sleek, dark-themed UI with smooth animations
• Retro Sound: 8-bit style music and sound effects
• Responsive Controls: Smooth gameplay with intuitive controls
• Netflix-Style Launcher: Easy game selection with arrow key navigation
• Accessibility: Mute options for background music while keeping sound effects

• HTML5 Canvas for game rendering
• Vanilla JavaScript for game logic
• Web Audio API for synthesized music and sound effects
• CSS3 for modern styling and animations

1. Visit the game collection
2. Use arrow keys to navigate between games
3. Press Enter or click to select a game
4. Press ESC or click the Home button to return to the menu

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/stphung/classic-games-collection.git

2. Open index.html in a modern web browser

3. No build process or dependencies required - it's all vanilla JavaScript!

Works best in modern browsers that support:

• HTML5 Canvas
• Web Audio API
• ES6 JavaScript features

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.

Built with ❤️ using Claude Code