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Reminds me a bit of Jezzball (old game that shipped with windows) [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6GQJxHh7E

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This style of gameplay goes all the way back to Qix from 1981:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix

Wow, never heard of this game (unsurprising as it came out a decade before I was born). I was able to play it here [0]. Arrows to move, spacebar to be able to leave the edge. Very cool!

[0] https://playclassic.games/games/action-dos-games-online/play...

That link is to an emulation of an MS-DOS port of the original arcade. You can play the emulated original stand-up arcade game here:

https://archive.org/details/arcade_qix

Press F3 to choose language, then use 5 to insert coins, 1 to start 1 player game. Use cursor keys to move along existing lines, use Ctrl+cursor keys to draw fast, use Alt+cursor keys to draw slowly.

Good catch! Thank you for posting this. It's really crazy to be playing games I played when I was a kid (Not this game but other MS-DOS or Arcade games) in the freaking browser...

I was trying to find a version on archive.org but can't seem to get any to run.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=jezzball&and[]=mediatyp...

Wow throwback, loved that game.

Yeah... Searching for that game led me back to Chip's Challenge, ended up buying the game ($2), grabbing the level file out of it, and throwing that into TileWorld (cross platform CC engine) to play on my mac. Nostalgia overload.

Good lord, Chip's Challenge? I haven't heard that name in 25 years. It was installed on the first home PC my family had. Windows 3.11. Played the hell out of it back in the day.

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