Arcade games
Fast, fun and easy to pick up: eat apples as a snake, flap through the pipes, slice the flying fruit, stack the tower and dodge the asteroids. Seconds to learn, plays in your browser on any device.
Arcade games
All arcade games
34 games
About each game
A line on every game here
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- Fruit Catcher Catch falling fruit with the wombat and friends!
- Whack-a-Mole Bop the cheeky moles with a big pink mallet.
- Snake Steer a cute carpet python round the garden.
- Flying Galah Flap a cute galah through the gum trees across 10 places, from the outback and the seaside to a rainforest, a city and a rainbow valley.
- Brick Breaker Bounce your cute ball buddy off the paddle and pop every jelly brick.
- Paddle Ball Bounce the smiley ball past friendly Wombat!
- Fruit Slicer Swipe to slice the flying fruit at a picnic that travels from the bush to the beach, outback and rainforest.
- Stack Tower A galah flies by with a cute animal cake block.
- Chicken Crossing Hop a little chick over roads and rivers to Mum's nest.
- Bumper Boats Squirt water at Platypus's pinwheel and make it giggle!
- Bubble Shooter Help Pip the platypus pop the bubbles over the billabong!
- Block Drop Drop the smiley animal blocks and fill a row to pop it in sparkles.
- Dot Dash Help a round, hungry wombat munch every dot in a garden-hedge maze!
- Penalty Shootout Tap the goal to shoot past Wombat, the friendly keeper, then take a turn in goal and catch Koala's kicks.
- Air Hockey Hit the candy puck past the friendly panda!
- Target Toss Toss squishy beanbags at a friendly target board with a smiling animal face in the middle!
- Star Catcher Glide the koala's flying space basket left and right to catch falling stars, sleepy moon-drops and rainbow comet sparkles!
- Snap! Cute animal cards flip one at a time.
- Koala Platformer Walk, hop and bounce the koala across sunny platforms!
- Koala Kart Race Koala's kart against a platypus, an echidna and a galah through a sunny meadow, the seaside, snowy hills, candy land and a starry night.
- Garden Guard Munching bug friends are wandering down the garden path to the veggie patch!
- Koala Run Run with the koala through 10 levels, from the outback to rainbow valley: jump logs, crabs and rolling snowballs, slide under magpies and vines, catch power-ups and win a new hat every level.
- Dinosaur Game Run with Dex the baby dino through the jungle, the desert, snowy hills, a volcano island and a starry night.
- Zigzag Tap to turn and zigzag down the ice with Penguin!
- Truck Driver Hold to drive the delivery truck with Otter!
- Car Wash Wash the muddy cars with Giraffe!
- Little Tractor Drive the little tractor with Lamb!
- Candy Catch Move the pumpkin basket and catch the falling sweets!
- Hungry Pumpkin Toss sweets into the hungry pumpkin's smiling mouth: aim, pull back and let go.
- Apple Bobbing Help Raccoon bob for apples at the autumn fair: wait for an apple to float by, then tap to dip at just the right moment.
- Penguin Sled Penguin slides down the snowy hill all by herself.
- Present Catch Slide Santa’s sack and catch the falling presents, stars and candy canes!
- Pony Ride Pony gallops along the trail all by herself.
- Choo-Choo Train Hold to drive the little steam train with Elephant the conductor!
About these games
Our picks and what they practise
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Arcade games are the ones children ask for by name — Snake, Paddle Ball, Flying Galah, Brick Breaker, the falling-blocks game, the dot-munching maze. Ours are the same ideas, drawn for kids and with the edges filed off: a slow mode on Snake, a computer opponent on Paddle Ball that does not crush you, no lives-for-money, no pop-ups between rounds. Most are one-touch or one-swipe, so a five-year-old can play the same game as a ten-year-old, just with a lower score.
There are more than 20 games on this page, so use the ages on the tiles. Fruit Catcher, Whack-a-Mole and Balloon Pop are the youngest; Snake, Flying Galah, Fruit Slicer and Stack Tower are the middle; Block Drop, Bumper Boats, Brick Breaker and the sports games suit older children who want something to get good at. A round of any of them is a minute or two, which is the point.
Our picks
What they practise
- Reaction time and hand–eye coordination
- Timing — when to jump, flap, swing or slice
- Steering and stopping with small, quick inputs
- Persistence: trying again after a short round, and beating your own score
- Taking turns and fair play in the two-player games (Paddle Ball, Air Hockey, Bumper Boats)
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Questions parents ask
4 quick answers
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Which arcade games are good for a five-year-old?
Fruit Catcher, Whack-a-Mole and Balloon Pop — one tap or one drag, no reading, no time pressure.
Are these the real Snake, Paddle Ball and Block Drop?
They are our own versions of the same ideas, built for kids: same rules, gentler pace, no pop-ups. Block Drop is the falling-blocks game; Dot Dash is the maze one.
Do they work on an iPad or phone?
Yes. Every game has touch controls; on a computer the arrow keys and space bar work too.
Is there anything to buy?
No — no pop-ups, no sign-up, and no lives or power-ups to buy.