Instructions
Beam Lanes
Five glowing rails, one ship that hops between them. Shoot the raiders sliding down, watch the hoppers flash before they switch rails, and fire the lane-clear beam when the meter fills.
- Year
- 1981
- Era
- Vector
- Genre
- Vector / Lane shooter
Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.
How to play
- Left/Right hop rails, Space fires (hold), B or Down fires the lane-clear beam.
- P to pause.
On touch
- On-screen < > hop, FIRE shoots, BEAM clears the rail.
- Or drag: the ship follows your finger and fires.
Every run starts on the title screen. Pause any time with P or the pause button; calm mode removes flashes and screen shake.
Maker’s note
The ship lives on five rails, so every decision is which rail to be on. Kills fill the beam meter; a full meter wipes the entire rail you stand on for double points. Hoppers blink on their way to the next rail, brutes take three hits, and each wave is bigger and quicker. Three shields, a spare at 3000. Seeded raider order.
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 1500
- 21,500
- 33,500
- 46,000
- 59,500
- 614,000
- 720,000
- 827,000
Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.
The Vector era, 1977–1982
Glowing phosphor lines on black glass: wireframes, starfields and one bright dot doing something impossible.
High scores
The top ten runs are saved in this browser with your three initials. Nothing is uploaded unless you submit a ranked run, so clearing site data clears the table.
