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OSSMILE ARCADE

▸ TOKENS 25¢ ▸ NO QUARTERS NEEDED ▸ PLAY FREE ◂

Step in off the mall corridor, mind the swirly carpet. 🕹️ Five cabinets, all free, all playable right here. The text adventures are emulated by the Internet Archive; Solitaire & Minesweeper are hand-built and live right here on the site.

ZORK Itext adventure · 1980

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“It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.” Click the screen, press a key to boot, then type: LOOK, GO NORTH, OPEN MAILBOX.

COLOSSAL CAVEadventure · 1981

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The cave-crawl that started the whole genre. XYZZY. (You’ll understand soon.)

SOLITAIREklondike · house build

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The lunch-break legend. Click the deck to draw; click a card then its destination. Double-click sends a card home.

MINESWEEPERdon’t click the bombs

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Left-click to reveal, right-click (or long-press) to flag. 12 mines. Nerves of steel required.

SNACK CATCHERcrazy snacks™ · house build

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Catch the falling snacks in your basket — ← → arrow keys or drag with a finger. Drop 3 and it’s game over. Score 500 to unlock a Crazy Snacks collectible sticker. 🧺

“Wait — is Zork open source now?” Not exactly. The ZIL source was released for preservation (not under an open license), and Activision still owns Zork — so we embed the Internet Archive’s legal, playable copy rather than hosting it. Colossal Cave is the freely-available open granddaddy of the genre. Games are emulated by archive.org; all rights remain with their owners. 🕹️

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