Instructions
Penalty Panic
A five-kick shootout against the Farmyard Reds. Drag to aim, hold to charge and release in the gold zone; then pull on the gloves and dive where the kicker leans. Win it and the next keeper is sharper.
- Year
- 2002
- Era
- Early Web
- Genre
- Sports / Penalty shootout
Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.
How to play
- Shooting: arrows aim, hold Space to charge, release to shoot.
- Keeping: arrows or click the goal to dive.
- P to pause.
On touch
- Shooting: drag back and forth to aim, hold to charge, release to shoot.
- Keeping: tap the goal where the ball is going.
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
Over-hit the ball and it sails wide or high; under-hit it and the keeper gets a hand to it. The keeper's guesses and the kicker's corners come from a seed. Goals build a streak bonus, saves count too, and winning a shootout pays a round bonus.
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 1300
- 2700
- 31,300
- 42,200
- 53,500
- 65,000
- 77,000
- 89,500
Each target is a step up. Beat them all and you have outplayed the workshop.
The Early Web era, 1997–2004
Beige towers, bevelled buttons and games that loaded one modem squeal at a time.
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.
