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title: "Retro Arcade Collection: 9 Classic Games Built with Phaser 4"
subtitle: "By sirAlfry. Snake, Tetris, Pong, Space Invaders and five more, in a single CRT launcher."
date: 2026-08-10T13:00:00.000Z
category: game
url: https://phaser.io/news/2026/07/retro-arcade-collection-phaser
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
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# Retro Arcade Collection: 9 Classic Games Built with Phaser 4

*By sirAlfry. Snake, Tetris, Pong, Space Invaders and five more, in a single CRT launcher.*

​[Alfredo De Donno](https://github.com/sirAlfry), known as **sirAlfry**, ported a collection of classic arcade games from Python/Pygame to **Phaser 4.1**. The result is nine fully playable games accessible from a single **retro CRT-style launcher**, complete with scanline effects, neon colours and a vignette. The whole collection runs in the browser with no install, no bundler and no external assets. Everything is rendered procedurally through Phaser's Graphics API.

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## The Nine Games in the Retro Arcade Collection

* **Snake** — particle effects, colour gradient on the body, timed bonus fruit
* **Tetris** — hold piece, ghost piece, next piece preview, level system and line clear animation
* **Pong** — three modes (1P, 2P, VS AI), trail effect, AI with variable difficulty
* **Breakout** — multi-resistance bricks, lives and progressive acceleration
* **Space Invaders** — enemies that shoot back, progressive waves and lives system
* **Maze Runner** — DFS-generated mazes, three difficulty levels and breadcrumb trail
* **Memory Game** — 4x4 pairs, timed input block and move counter
* **Puzzle 15** — solvability check, tile correctness indicator and timer
* **Tic Tac Toe** — Minimax AI, three modes (1P random, 2P, AI) and score tracking

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![]($/news/2026/07/retro-arcade-collection-1.png)

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## How It Was Built with Phaser 4

Each game is an independent **Phaser.Scene**. The launcher transitions between them with fade in/out via scene.start(), and each scene manages its own input, rendering and state without shared dependencies.

There is no bundler in the stack. **Phaser 4 is loaded via CDN ESM** from jsDelivr, and the browser caches it automatically between scenes. All rendering goes through **Phaser's Graphics API** with WebGL: no sprite sheets, no external images, everything drawn in code. High scores are saved to **localStorage** with functions local to each scene.

> The Tic Tac Toe implementation includes a full **Minimax AI** with three modes: single player against a random opponent, two players on the same device, and single player against the AI.

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### Play the Collection

All nine games, free in the browser. No install needed.

​[Play Now](https://siralfry.github.io/retro-arcade-collection-phaser/)​

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### View the Source

MIT licensed. Full source on GitHub.

​[View on GitHub](https://github.com/sirAlfry/retro-arcade-collection-phaser)​

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