RewindSomething good is still on.Replay the opening

Play, wander, return

The game rooms

Pick an arcade game, play the included 2048 Game Boy homebrew, or explore a room in Rewind’s world.

Four fresh reasons to stay

The after-school arcade.

Instant play. No downloads.

New at the puzzle bench

Evolution lab →Put the family back together. Tap each Pokémon in evolution order.Type duel →One attack. Two defenses. Work out what really lands.Fusion workshop →Pick the named materials and assemble a classic Fusion Monster.
Tune the Jukebox game screen1950s

Touch, mouse & keyboard · quick originals

Tune the Jukebox →

Also in this room: Memory Mix and Brick Blitz.

Historical classic: Tennis for Two (1958)

A playable recreation of William Higinbotham's 1958 analog-computer landmark, shown from the original side-on oscilloscope viewpoint.

Controls: Player 1: W/S aim, D hits. Player 2: I/K aim, L hits.

The original machine was dismantled. This Rewind museum recreation follows Brookhaven's documented side view, angle controls, button strike, net, and gravity—it is not surviving original software.

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Moonshot Mission game screen1960s

Touch, mouse & keyboard · quick originals

Moonshot Mission →

Also in this room: Memory Mix and Brick Blitz.

Historical classic: Spacewar! (1962)

The actual 1962 PDP-1 program, reassembled from a vintage source listing and running inside a JavaScript PDP-1 emulator.

Controls: Player 1: W A S D. Player 2: I J K L.

The emulator makes two documented display/timing accommodations; the game program is the historic public-domain code.

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Disco Recall game screen1970s

Touch, mouse & keyboard · quick originals

Disco Recall →

Also in this room: Memory Mix and Brick Blitz.

Historical classic: Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)

The game that named the adventure genre: explore a cave, solve parser-driven puzzles, collect treasure, and try not to get hopelessly lost.

Controls: Type short commands such as LOOK, GET LAMP, NORTH, or INVENTORY.

This faithful C/Z-machine port follows the Crowther and Woods game lineage and runs in the open-source Parchment interpreter.

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Cosmic Quarter game screen1980s

Touch, mouse & keyboard · quick originals

Cosmic Quarter →

Also in this room: Memory Mix and Brick Blitz.

Historical classic: NetHack (1987)

A famously deep, turn-based dungeon where every run is different and almost every object has a surprising use.

Controls: Point and click in the isometric view; keyboard shortcuts remain available.

This is NetHack 3.6.6 running through the open Vulture isometric frontend and a community WebAssembly port—not a commercial ROM upload.

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Desktop Defrag game screen1990s

Touch, mouse & keyboard · quick originals

Desktop Defrag →

Also in this room: Memory Mix and Brick Blitz.

Historical classic: Freeciv (1996)

Build cities, research technology, negotiate, explore, and guide a civilization across an enormous turn-based campaign.

Controls: Mouse-driven. Start with the tutorial prompts and found your first city.

The game and web client are open source; the live session is supplied by the Freeciv-web community server.

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Download Dash game screen2000s

Touch, mouse & keyboard · quick originals

Download Dash →

Also in this room: Memory Mix and Brick Blitz.

Historical classic: QWOP (2008)

The browser-game phenomenon that turns running 100 meters into four-key slapstick, tiny victories, and magnificent failure.

Controls: Q and W control thighs; O and P control calves. Good luck.

Loaded directly from the creator's official, free HTML5 player. Rewind does not copy or redistribute the game.

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Feed Memory game screen2010s

Touch, mouse & keyboard · quick originals

Feed Memory →

Also in this room: Memory Mix and Brick Blitz.

Historical classic: 2048 (2014)

The minimalist puzzle that seemed to appear on every phone overnight—and still makes one more move impossible to resist.

Controls: Use arrow keys or swipe. Combine matching tiles to reach 2048.

This is the original creator's official open-source web release, loaded from its project site under the MIT License.

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