Play the villain. The classics, flipped.
● INSERT COIN
Arcade classics, turned inside out. You take the side that used to lose. The computer plays the hero.
Reverses PAC-MAN · 1980
You command the ghosts. Pac-Man clears the maze — stop him cold.
Claim any of the four ghosts mid-round (WASD, arrows, IJKL or numpad). Idle two seconds and a ghost falls back to arcade AI, so a friend can jump in on the same keyboard. Catch Pac-Man three times before the last dot is eaten.
Reverses TETRIS · 1984
You deal the pieces. The Stacker has to suffer them.
Pick from a rack of tetrominoes and slam them down on a bot Stacker. Top him out before he clears too many lines — the fewer pieces it takes, the better the kill.
Reverses 2048 · 2014
You choose which tile appears, and where. The Slider only gets to merge.
Feed the Slider 2s, 4s and 8s from a rack, one cell at a time. Choke the 4×4 board: fill it so that no slide can merge anything, and he is stuck.
Reverses MINESWEEPER · 1990
You lay the mines. The clues are already on the board.
Plant each mine where the numbers say it belongs. Every field has exactly one solution, so pure logic decides who is right — and one mine on a safe square ends it all.
Reverses DONKEY KONG · 1981
You are the ape. Heave the barrels — the Runner climbs anyway.
Pick from seven barrel throws on the numpad deck: rollers that tempt fate at the ladder heads, straight drops, and blues that light the drum and wake fireballs. Catch him on a ladder, bind him mid-jump, burn him — or let his bonus bleed dry.
New classics are being reversed.