Instructions
Puck Panic
A tiny table and a puck that gets faster with every wall bounce. First to seven wins the match; glowing power pucks split or swell the puck. Each match the CPU sharpens.
- Year
- 1999
- Era
- Early Web
- Genre
- Sports / Air Hockey
Free, no sign-up. Keyboard, touch or gamepad.
How to play
- Mouse to move your paddle (arrows or WASD also work).
- Press 2 on the title for local two player (unranked).
- P to pause.
On touch
- Drag to move your paddle.
- It sits just above your fingertip.
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
Win a match and you bank your goal difference times the level, then face a quicker CPU. Lose a match and the run is over. Serves, power-puck spawns and the CPU's aim errors all come from a seed.
The Eracade workshop
Target scores
- 1100
- 2300
- 3700
- 41,200
- 52,000
- 63,200
- 74,800
- 87,000
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.
