Retro Arcade

What is Retro Arcade?

Ranked play costs $0.50 per attempt, paid in $TOKENS; practice mode is free. Retro Arcade is a browser arcade on Solana. It is a lobby of neon cabinets inspired by classic coin-op games: Retro Invaders (a wave shooter with weapon upgrades), RETRORUN (a highway racer), RetroBreaker (brick breaker), Retroids (an asteroid blaster), RetroDefender (missile defence over six cities), RetroBurner (a maze game), RetroBeat (a rhythm game) and a seasonal cabinet, Retro Pumpkin Smash, a Halloween reflex game. A free cabinet, MIKASWEEPER, is a minesweeper variant about not exposing a private key.

How scoring and entry work

Every cabinet has a free practice mode and a ranked mode. A ranked attempt costs a flat $0.50 paid in $TOKENS, priced live at the moment of payment; SOL is not accepted for entry. One entry buys one scored attempt with three lives, and your best single run in the 7-day cycle sets your rank on that cabinet's leaderboard. The site's terms require players to be 18 or older and allow one wallet per person. You need a Phantom wallet and a little SOL for network fees.

Where the money goes

The site states that 100% of each $TOKENS entry is sent to a burn vault and burned, and that entry fees do not fund the prize pool. Burns are executed manually by the team during what it calls an early test phase, and each burn is published on-chain. On the day we checked (8 November 2026) the lobby showed 60.29M $TOKENS burned. Prizes come from the token's creator fees instead: at the end of each week 80% of the fees in the project wallet is set aside, split evenly across the cabinets, and the first-place player on each cabinet is paid in SOL, manually, after scores are checked for bots, macros and exploits. The lobby showed a weekly prize pool of 0.06 SOL on 8 November 2026, so payouts depend on creator fees and can be very small or zero.

Before you pay to play

Only one player per cabinet is paid each week, so most paying players receive nothing back. $TOKENS is a community token on pump.fun whose price can move, which changes how many tokens $0.50 costs. The service is not available in some U.S. states, and no developer or studio is named on the site. The operator describes the entry as a skill-tournament fee, not a bet; whether paid entry for a prize counts as gambling depends on where you live, so check your local rules first. Practice mode costs nothing and is the safest way to judge the games.