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Every change to WowCool, newest first. 78 entries since 26 June 2026, the latest on 4 November.

November 202623 changes

4 NovWed

  1. Site: Lighter pages, readable day mode, a tidier MeWow Studio

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    Every page now waits on a third less stylesheet before it draws, and wiki articles stop downloading the game player in the background. The legal and 'page not found' pages are readable in day mode again, phones get bigger buttons, and MeWow Studio is one tidy panel.

  2. Site: Finding a game on your phone got a lot quicker

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    /games opens on four picks for you and every genre at a glance, with search, filters and sort tucked into a small toolbar. Cards show 1P, 2P, online and 'Computer only' at a glance, and on phones the games that need a keyboard stay hidden until you ask for them.

  3. Site: Every game card shows the real game now

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    128 thumbnails were re-shot from the games themselves, replacing the old drawn card art. They're small files too, so the games grid loads lighter.

  4. Feature: The daily wheel is a proper prize wheel now

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    Twelve Ticket prizes from 10 up to a 2,500 jackpot, with the real odds listed under the wheel. It clicks off every peg as it slows down, and every part of the spin has its own sound. Still one free spin a day.

  5. Site: The front page has a front desk

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    Hank is on the front desk with a new note every day, one of the house MeWows picks a game of the day, and a weekly top 10 shows what everyone is playing and what moved. The wheel sits right next to it.

  6. Feature: High Scores is now a Hall of Fame

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    See who holds the most #1s, the newest records and whose record fell, every game's champion, the versus ladders, and where you stand. Game pages get a cleaner high-score board to match.

  7. Feature: Forum update: boards, post numbers and quotes

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    Seven boards in three categories, No.1234 post numbers with >>quotes you can hover or tap to preview, greentext, spoilers, and ranks by every name. New anti-spam rules, and three reports pull a bad post until a mod looks.

  8. Site: New pages for MeWow World, the Prize Vault and Premium

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    MeWow World's front door shows real screenshots from the island, and the Prize Vault previews what it will sell. Premium is marked coming soon: optional cosmetic perks that never give anyone an advantage.

  9. Rework: SillyBird Jump Rope, rebuilt

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    SillyBird and the Pecking Order flock star in a simpler jump rope game: tap in time and count your jumps. It plays upright or sideways, with fake-outs and Double Dutch along the way.

  10. Site: We played every arcade game on a phone

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    127 games are now marked phone-ready. Emberline and Hand Battle work by touch, and Romino stopped downloading 3 MB of music you hadn't asked for.

  11. Fix: Fewer dead ends, and no Tickets for cheating

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    Your profile and inventory stop sending you to places that haven't opened yet, the Contact page has a real address, and Lawnpocalypse no longer gives stars for levels won with the cheat switched on.

3 NovTue

  1. Feature: Recent changes: every update in one place

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    Every change to WowCool since day one, colour-coded by kind, with a feed for your reader. Each entry has its own link.

  2. Site: The wiki gets portals, history and birds

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    Every article now lists its own changes. New portals by genre and by theme, Did you know facts written from the games themselves, and a Random article that arrives by bird.

  3. Daily Brains: Daily Brains: Sightline, Daily Maze, Hieroglyphics and Time Stack rebuilt

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    Sightline is now a crafted riverside city with a scope and map. Daily Maze gets swipe, tap and drag controls and a weekday difficulty ladder. Hieroglyphics is carved into painted limestone, and Time Stack runs from ancient to future.

  4. Daily Brains: Almost, Nine Things, Pixel Peek and Timur's Checkmate touch-ups

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    Fixes from the owner's playthrough, and Timur's Checkmate gets its own ivory-and-ebony piece set.

  5. Retired: Bobo leaves Daily Brains

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    The rule-pushing puzzle is retired after six days. Its page is in the Javeyard.

    Retired: Bobo.

2 NovMon

  1. Rework: Water Bottle Storm Vape is now an escalating beat game

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    Tap when the bottle stands upright on the beat. Every stuck flip restyles the bottle and the world, the music and camera get wilder every stage, and the tempo sometimes slams on the brakes to throw you off.

  2. Rework: Hell Copter D: old-PC look, HELL mode and two shop slots

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    Low-res pixels, PC-speaker sound and a fake BIOS boot. Buy copter colours and whole new worlds for the cave.

  3. New game: Two new originals: Snootfire and Gangly Games

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    Snootfire is a dungeon roguelite where your dragon slurps enemy shots and spits them back. Gangly Games puts a four-legged baby giraffe through eight sports-day events.

  4. Site: The wiki gets a classic look and a Javeyard

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    Retired games keep their pages in the Javeyard, marked as old and outdated. Wiki pictures load about ten times lighter.

  5. Retired: 37 more games retired

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    Including John Street Pong. Their wiki pages live on in the Javeyard.

    The 37 retired games

    John Street Pong, Papa's Pizzeria, Park Poop Patrol, Parking Lot Purgatory, Peg Drop, PENTA, Perfect Circle, Pocket Beasts Roguelite, Porch Sesh, Press My Face for a Scary Noise, Protoplasm, Rap Battle, Red Checkers, Reef Keeper, Robot Apocalypse Trail, Run A Mile (Alien Invasion), Sandwich Stacker, Sauce Master, School Showdown, SHARK SWIMMER 2000, Simulator Simulator, Sip n Shrub, Sip Surf, Skee Ball, Slow-Mo Brawl, Sour Seeker, Squirrel Farm, Steady Maze, Stickman RPG, Stickman Sniper, Stoner Story, Ten-Pin Bowling, The Impossible Quiz, Tiny Lives: Neighborhood, Vent Crawl, VILLAGE OF SECRETS, Zombie Base Defense.

  6. Feature: Sign in with Google or Discord

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    You can also sign in with your username or your email now.

1 NovSun

  1. New game: Hero Star Saga: a 121-level campaign

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    Built on the Hero Star engine, with new beasts, undo, and a new soundscape for both games.

October 202618 changes

31 OctSat

  1. Rework: Four games rebuilt as WowCool originals

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    Sugar Spindle, Odd Sock Out, Coo Dynasty and Pecking Order replace games that were too close to someone else's.

  2. Retired: 51 games and every casino game retired

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    Cut in the pre-launch audit. Their pages are in the Javeyard now.

    The 53 retired games

    ABSTRACT SHMUP WTF, Academy Range, Acid Cats, ANT COLONY CIVILIZATION, Arrow Dance, Barber Shop Hood Simulator, Barnyard Blitz, Beat Maker, Big Mike Eats A Lot, BIRD POOP GAME, BLANCO BEAR ICE CREAM MONEY ATTACK, Blanco Bear: Ice Cream Sandwich Tycoon, Blind Maze, Bolt Builder, Candy Match, Cell To Beast, Circuit Sage, Clock Nerd: Time Tell Rush, Crazy Uber, Dirtbike Daredevil, Do Nothing RP, Does anyone play this game?, Don't Get Booked, Dragon Bloodline, Escape The Cheese Maze, Fairy Bullet Blast, Falling Sand, Fancy Pants Sprint, Fish Bear Island, Fish Designer, Fling Fortress, Forks 4000, Golf Cart Grand Prix, Gravity Runner, Hamster Commando, HI HAT HERO, House Of The Lost, Hyperspace Bowling, John Street Checkers, John Street Creepypasta, Jump Rope Legend, Jumpscare Match, Junkie Life, Kong Climb, MAGIC FAIRY FUN BLAST ARCADE 0.11, Miracle Halo, Mo Fro, Motherlode, MR MOUSE'S MOUSE HOUSE, Mr. Pancake, Nephew to Unc Simulator, OCTO FAST TAP, Snail Racing.

29 OctThu

  1. New game: SillyBird Jump Rope

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    How many jumps can SillyBird do before the rope wins?

  2. Retired: The Pinball Hall is shelved for launch

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    All eight machines, Flip Tower included, are switched off for now. Their pages wait in the Javeyard.

    The 8 retired games

    Creepypasta Pinball, Flip Tower, Happy Girl Unicorn Pinball, Monochrome Pinball, Nanophage Pinball, Square Pinball, Static Static Pinball, Tropical Pinball.

28 OctWed

  1. Daily Brains: Eight new Daily Brains puzzles

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    The Daily Cross, Murder Mystery, Who Had What, Ferret, Mini Mahjong, Daily PLO, Hero Star and Bobo, each with months of puzzles written ahead.

  2. Daily Brains: Daily Brains: almost every puzzle reworked

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    Two passes in one day bring new looks and harder floors. Lie of the Land becomes TopO, Nine Lands becomes Nine Things, and ten puzzles leave the set.

23 OctFri

  1. Site: Faster everywhere

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    Pages are cached and change instantly, images are smaller, games pause when you scroll them out of view, and click sounds are softer and off by default on phones.

  2. New game: Flip Tower: a pinball machine you climb

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    Five floors, lifts and perks, and a camera that follows the ball up the tower.

22 OctThu

  1. Feature: Day mode

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    A light, paper-coloured version of the whole site. Switch with the button in the header.

  2. Feature: The Pinball Hall opens

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    Every machine gets a cabinet in one lit hall, with hand-inked tables and new sound.

21 OctWed

  1. Site: A new home page, after seven drafts

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    Rebuilt from scratch and redrawn seven times in two days before landing as the Portal: square corners, Rubik Mono type and pixel icons.

  2. Feature: Games start straight away

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    No more Play gate on game pages. Full screen is clean to enter and leave, and Back closes it.

  3. Daily Brains: Daily Brains redesign and twelve new puzzles

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    Puzzles play inline on their own page, with a rules deck that never opens by itself. New: Sudoku, Tangram, Sightline, TopO, Almost, IQ Test 10, Massachusetts Hold'em and five more.

18 OctSun

  1. Site: The WowCool look

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    A new theme for the whole site: punk header, LCD search bar, colour-coded section tabs, a dock with a Start menu on desktop and a tab bar on phones.

12 OctMon

  1. Daily Brains: Twenty-three new Daily Brains puzzles

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    Hieroglyphics, Aftercolor, Recall, Daily Maze and Proofread among them. Puzzles now roll over at your local midnight, and Common Thread and Word Vault retire.

9 OctFri

  1. Daily Brains: Seven new puzzles and a Top Brains board

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    Pixel Peek, Time Stack, Daily Mate, Twisty Crypticy and Nine Things among them. The hub now shows today's set and your overall streak.

8 OctThu

  1. Retired: 72 games retired in the October audit

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    All 304 games were played and sorted: 127 kept, 105 put on notice and 72 retired, with their code and art kept in the archive.

    The 72 retired games

    ADHD ON ACID SLOTS, Bank Heist Response, Basement Cleaner, Bejohned, BlackerJack, Bolt of Olympus, Bullshit Game Maker, Cake Week: Bake or Break, Cavern Dive, Chess5k Interview Simulator, Circuit Breaker, Coin Flip, Commando 2, COVER YOURSELF IN PEANUT BUTTER, Crazy Red Boy, Dad N Me, Dice Roll, Dwarf Hollow, Forklift Parkour, FORTUNE WHEEL, Gem Swap, Gravity Flip, GREED PIG HUNT, Grow Garden, Harvest Game, Hellcopter 2, Hold The Dynamite, Hoop Shot, Hyperdrive, J-Slots, John Street Memory Match, JOHN STREET PURPLE SLOTS, John Street Skate, Jumpscare DAW, Lampman, Lemonade Stand Tycoon, LICK MY FEET YOU PIG, Lifemaker, Lightning Roulette, Line Rider, Mine And Build, Mini Golf, Miss Kitty's Tea Party, Mr Poker's Poker Game, Ninja Momentum, Optical Illusion Lab, Orbital Program, Paint The Box, Paint The House, Pizza Parlor, Plague Sim, POLISH ROULETTE, Portal, Powerball Tickets, Pumpkin Launcher, Purple Crane Balls, Raft Wars, Ragdoll Racer, Rock Paper Scissors, RUNAWAY TRAIN, SKIP ROCK 3D, Super Fast Racer, The Noise: An Honesty Test, Tiger Baccarat, TONY BLOCK PRO SURFING, Traffic Sim, Trap Run, Voltage Stickman Fighter, WAVE RACER 64, Whammy!, Wreckmaster Demolition, Yeast Vagina Fishing.

  2. Rework: CHOMP, Frisbee Golf 3D and Bodyguard Simulator rebuilt

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    CHOMP grows from a prototype into a full piranha game, Frisbee Golf 3D becomes a 36-hole tour, and Bodyguard Simulator is rebuilt from the ground up.

September 20268 changes

18 SepFri

  1. Daily Brains: Daily Brains opens

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    Three puzzles a day that reset at midnight and are the same for everyone, with streaks and a spoiler-free share card. The first three: Word Vault, Common Thread and Numberlock.

16 SepWed

  1. Feature: MeWow World becomes a real multiplayer town

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    Rebuilt inside the site and wired to real accounts, Tickets, friends and cribs, with skills, combat and quests.

15 SepTue

  1. Site: Genres become a tree

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    Fourteen main genres with sub-genres under them, and no more "other".

14 SepMon

  1. Feature: Referrals: 200 Tickets each

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    Tell a friend your username. When they have earned their first 100 Tickets by playing, you both get 200, and you keep 0.1% of what they earn after that.

  2. Fix: Sixteen games now pay the Tickets they promised

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    They promised Tickets for playing and paid nothing. Eleven more were found and fixed two days later.

11 SepFri

  1. New game: Last Mile, and two idle games rebuilt

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    Last Mile turns every tap into a step of a run. Drone Delivery Idle Game gets its name, and Slime Clicker is rebuilt around a living slime.

6 SepSun

  1. Rework: Shooter pass: four rebuilt, two new

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    Abduction Survivor, Cave Sniper, Goop Flamethrower FPS and John Street Gang Wars are rebuilt. Lion Hunter Extreme and Old World Pipes are new.

5 SepSat

  1. Rework: Pinball rebuilt on one real cabinet

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    All five tables move to a house cabinet at real table proportions, with flippers under your thumbs and a skill shot on the plunger.

August 20267 changes

30 AugSun

  1. Rework: 8-Ball Pool rebuilt

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    Real ball physics, a cue you aim yourself, cue skins, call-the-8 rules and four times the frame rate on phones.

28 AugFri

  1. Feature: Quick play, casual tables and private tables

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    Every multiplayer game can find you an opponent in one tap, open a casual table, or open a private one for friends.

19 AugWed

  1. Fix: High scores get a cheat check

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    One player posted the highest allowed number to 255 boards in fourteen minutes. Scores are now checked for speed, breadth and shape, doubtful ones wait for a human, and every board was put back.

16 AugSun

  1. Update: Hell Copter reaches 1.0

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    And Galaxy Wars gets real bosses, a real planet and ship colours you buy with Tickets.

3 AugMon

  1. Feature: One online-match system for every game

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    Multiplayer games share one layer for seats, handshakes and reliable moves, so a dropped message no longer splits a match in two. Tribe Hyper RTS gets ranked online duels on it.

  2. Feature: Twenty hand-drawn emotes

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    Type a shortcode in a forum post and it turns into a WowCool emote.

2 AugSun

  1. New game: Three bullet-hell shooters on one engine

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    IRON GALE: Pacific Sortie, Blanco Bear & The Monkey King and ABSTRACT SHMUP WTF share an engine and nothing else: a 1944 sea battle, a jungle river war, and a game running on hardware that is falling apart.

July 202618 changes

27 JulMon

  1. Site: Games get version numbers

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    Every game now carries a version and has to pass a quality checklist to leave beta. Galaxy Wars is the first to reach 1.0.

21 JulTue

  1. Feature: MeWow World begins as a social park

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    Your crib becomes an isometric world where your MeWow can walk, sit, emote and chat with whoever else is online.

19 JulSun

  1. New game: Fifteen more, including Ladybug Moonshot and Kiki

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    Also Androids In Hell Deserve To Burn, Red Warrior's Last Stand, Chhaa and ¡Blanco Bear Colorea el Mundo!

18 JulSat

  1. New game: Nineteen new games in one day

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    Ten are still in the arcade, including HAND BATTLE, JohnWare, CHOMP and The Water Bottle Storm Vape Game.

  2. Feature: An on-screen controller for phones

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    Games made for a keyboard get a D-pad and buttons on touch screens, in portrait or landscape.

17 JulFri

  1. Site: The WowCool Wiki opens

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    Lore, characters and codex tables for the games. The first dozen articles run from SWAT Door Breach to Romino.

  2. New game: The Binding of Zack

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    A seeded roguelike in seven colours, with co-op for two.

16 JulThu

  1. New game: Nine new games, from SX1 to STITCHES.EXE

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    Three hyper-arcade games (SX1, SX2 and SX3), Rainbow Factory, TIME CRYING 2, BLOON BLASTERS, Coin Runner, EMBERLINE and STITCHES.EXE.

  2. Feature: A daily Ticket bonus

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    Claim 100 Tickets once a day on the home page, plus 25 more for every day in a row you come back, up to 250.

15 JulWed

  1. Update: HOOFBEAT 2.0 and ranked online play

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    Rebuilt on a 9×9 board, with a shop, a ladder against the computer and ranked online matches where everyone starts at 400.

14 JulTue

  1. New game: Thirty-nine more games in three days

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    From 12 to 14 July, including HOOFBEAT, Pickleman Adventures In Queso Town, Robo Paint Panic and three zombie games in one day.

  2. Feature: Achievements

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    Games can award achievements, and the ones you earn show on your profile.

13 JulMon

  1. Feature: The forum opens

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    One board for everything. Every post can have its own font and colours.

  2. Feature: The MeWow Maker

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    Build your own MeWow, try its ten moods and use it as your picture.

11 JulSat

  1. New game: Nineteen new games, Andy Ant among them

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    Also SHOVE!, Frisbee Golf 3D, Mr. Lasso, Tribe Hyper RTS, Hell Train Escape, Vape Olympics and Life of a Fireman.

1 JulWed

  1. Feature: Accounts, profiles and live high scores

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    Sign up, get a profile page and post scores to live leaderboards. Game pages get comments and ratings the same day, and friends can visit each other's cribs.

  2. Feature: Tickets and the prize shop

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    Games pay out Tickets for playing, and the prize shop sells things to spend them on. Every Ticket goes through one ledger on the server.

June 20264 changes

28 JunSun

  1. New game: 183 games in three days

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    Between 27 and 29 June the arcade fills up in batches of up to 37 games at a time. Most have since been retired. The 47 still here include The Backrooms, Abduction Dash, Romino and 8-Ball Pool.

  2. New game: The first pinball tables

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    Creepypasta Pinball and Tropical Pinball lead the way on a shared pinball engine, with missions and multiball.

  3. Feature: The casino opens

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    Slots and table games that play for Tickets from a shared wallet. It closed for good on 31 October.

26 JunFri

  1. Site: Day one: two games and a paint app

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    The first version of the site goes up: a retro arcade portal with Hell Copter, Galaxy Wars and a paint app called Doodle Pad.