RADICAL REWIND / PLAY LABINSERT COIN. NO COMMERCIAL ROMS. ✦
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THE QUARTER THAT ACTUALLY WORKS

PLAY
LAB.

A thicker floor of original canvas cabinets. Crossing, vector rocks, brick-break, table tennis, invader waves, a neon snake — plus maze-chase, a vertical climb-shooter, girder hopping, and a color-drop puzzle. Labeled as remakes and tributes — never as the licensed title.

PICK A CABINET. DROP A QUARTER.

The floor is open.

Keyboard. Touch. Pause. ↙
SELECT A CABINET
SCORE 0 HIGH 0 LIVES —

Pick a cabinet on the floor to load it into the bezel.

THE FLOOR

Ten cabinets. Zero dumps.

Play Lab is a separate, playable floor from the arcade culture shelf, which stays a metadata / IGDB art collection of 101 games. We do not wrap emulators around pirated ROMs.

Adding a cabinet: original code, or an MIT / public-domain browser remake with credits. Skip Internet Archive software embeds unless the item is clearly legal to embed. Full policy for contributors: docs/play-lab.md in the repository.

FIRST QUARTER

How to play the Lab

  1. Pick a cabinet on the floor, or jump in with a share link like ?cabinet=gleam-circuit.
  2. Insert the coin. START, FIRE, or any direction begins. The bezel keeps your high score in this browser.
  3. Desktop: arrows or WASD. Space / K fires, rotates, or jumps. P pauses. R restarts. F fullscreen.
  4. Phone: the D-pad and FIRE sit under the glass. Swipe the screen to steer. The page will not scroll while you hold a control.
  5. Honest names only. These are original tributes — not Pac-Man, not Tetris, not a ROM in a trench coat.

The 101-game shelf at /arcade.html stays a culture file. Play Lab is the floor that actually takes a quarter.