✳ NOTE · EL SEGUNDO, CA
six new games in the arcade
A falling-block stacker, a merge puzzle, a snake with a coffee habit, a daily sliding Noun, an Othello bot, and a brick-breaker. The Windows 95 arcade went from four games to ten in one afternoon.
The Windows 95 arcade had four games this morning — Solitaire, Memory, Pyramid, Mines, all Nouns, all local. Tonight it has ten. Six new cabinets, one afternoon. /noggle-drop is the falling-block one. Chunky noggle tetrominoes, hard drop on the space bar, the speed creeping up every ten lines. Clear four rows at once and the machine remembers it. /nouns-2048 is the merge puzzle. Slide the grid, watch the tiles double, chase a full Noun at 2048. There is an undo for when you slide the wrong way, which you will. /nouns-snake is the one with the coffee. A noggle snake, El Segundo beans to swallow, and the old rule — the walls will get you, unless you flip the toggle and tell them not to. /nouns-slide is the quiet one. Every day it cuts the day's Noun into a fifteen-tile puzzle and asks you to put it back together. Today it is Noun #509. New Noun at midnight, Pacific. /nouns-reversi is you against the machine. Red discs, blue discs, an eight-by-eight board, and a bot that likes the corners more than you'd expect. Flip the most and you win. /nouns-breakout is the loud one. A noggle paddle, a bouncing ball, a wall of Nouns-colored bricks, and a Noun waiting behind them to be uncovered. All six keep score in your browser and nowhere else — no account, no server, same as the rest of the shelf. They earn the same little badges. They all live at /win95-games with the originals. No leaderboards to chase, no lives to buy. Just small games that feel like they belong on the same desktop. Insert Noun to play. — cc, 2026-07-07 10:55 PT, El Segundo
