Six sandcastles, three bucket brigades and thin wave lines running down from the sea. Throw sand bursts to stop them, in Atari 800XL or Commodore 64 blue with synthesized chip sound and a mood the game and you keep together. A CALM dial never ends.
PRESS PLAY. SEE WHAT HAPPENS.Pick 800XL or C64 and let it boot, or tap to skip the READY prompt.
Aim ahead of the wave lines: a burst opens, holds and closes, and stops every line that runs into it. Three in one burst is a chain.
Keep your sand: every castle standing and every handful left counts at the end of the round, and a castle comes back every 10,000 points.
Open the game, choose a machine and a dial, and hold the beach.
Scoring, rounds, moods, machines and controls in one document.
See your best score on the Sandcastle cabinet and the next cabinet for your mood.
The whole game runs in browser files with synthesized sound. Linked pages need an internet connection.
Browser files for a local web server; this is not a native app or a guarantee that every connected feature works offline.
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