ArcadeOS vs Micro E

Welcome to ArcadeOS — a whole arcade in your pocket, and now on your wrist. 68 hand-picked original games, each one its own cartridge: full 3D open worlds, kart racers, ninja action, gothic pinball, paper-craft RPGs, sky shooters, momentum platformers, run-and-gun, belt brawlers, puzzle boxes and rhythm. Every game is an original creation in the spirit of the golden age of consoles — drawn in code, scored with real chip audio, and built to be picked up in seconds. HALLOW EDITION Worlds, not cartridges. LOOSE KEYS: HALLOW HOLLOW is a full 3D open city under an orange moon: take any car, hearse, helicopter, plane or boat, outrun a three-star heat system, fly a fast jet off a military airfield, land an airliner at the international airport, and work a phone full of jobs — in a city full of witches, skeletons, horsemen and the odd creature from an 1818 novel. At its heart is HOLLOWMERE, a haunted theme park with a graveyard coaster you can actually ride, a drop tower, and a lagoon parade with fireworks on the hour. MODS ship with it: god mode, every weapon, flight, moon gravity. IRONBARK is a heavyweight momentum platformer: an armored-bark brawler and a glider partner tag-teaming through an industrial jungle of barrel-cannon chains, mine-cart runs and hidden bonus rooms, drawn in fine-pixel art. GLIMMERGLASS KEEP rounds it out — a free-roam 3D collect-a-thon built over 25 nights of iteration. All three have original soundtracks synthesized live inside the app. CHERRY EDITION 23 games rated five stars by our testers before they shipped — look for the cherry on the cartridge. Highlights: Reefjack's lantern-tide run-and-gun, Thornhollow's gorge platforming, Quiet Falls' suburban-oddball RPG, Emberline's three-winter family saga, Cascabel's commedia brawler, Ironvane's vertical shooter, and Crestline GP's speedboat regatta. APPLE WATCH ArcadeOS ships with an Apple Watch app. Six games are built for the wrist and the Digital Crown: Redline Ridge (crown hops lanes, hold to burn), Sunstrip (crown steers, tap to shift), Ironvane (crown flies, hold to charge, tap to call your wingman), Truck Simulator (roll the crown and the truck drives itself — steer, hold to brake, deliver the cargo), Haywire (a horse loose in a farmyard full of physics: buck, jump, cause chaos) and Cairnglass (a crown-controlled falling-sigil puzzler). Runs on its own — no iPhone needed nearby. FEATURES 68 games — every one with its own hand-crafted cartridge art Home screen: your games as icons, with folders you make yourself Gold-star collection: beat a game, earn its golden seal. Collect them all Authentic chip sound in every game, and full synthesized soundtracks in the 3D worlds Instant resume — every game remembers exactly where you left off No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No internet required. Just games New games ship in seasonal editions — Cherry, and now Hallow ArcadeOS games are living software: they grow new levels, mechanics, and polish over time. Your shelf gets better while you sleep. Powered by RetroApps.

Tiny electric cars, big chaos. Enter a name, press Play and you are in: you take over an E-Car in a race that is already running, against up to 7 other players and bots. Players on iPhone, iPad and in the browser all meet in the same races. DRIVE ELECTRIC Your battery drains as you drive, and every hit costs energy. Grab the batteries that pop up on the track, steal energy with a well-timed ram, or take the detour through the Charging Station for a fast top-up under its speed limit. Run dry and you are stranded: the world turns black and white until a drone flies in and recharges you where you stand. RAM, ZAP AND DRIFT Shove rivals off the racing line, drift through the bends, splash through puddles and fly off the jumps. Item Boxes help the chasing pack: a Zap with five shots, a Missile, a Mine or a Shield. Fall off the track and you are back at the last checkpoint. LEADING IS HARD The leader is slowed as soon as they pull away, second and third get a tow, and every bot behind a human leader takes aim. Races stay close right to the line. 50 TRACKS IN 22 PLACES Race across the kitchen table, through the garden, over the office desk and round the bathtub. Then head out: four tech offices, a LAN party in the dark, a golf course, a soccer field, London, New York, Paris, Las Vegas, Berlin, Heidelberg, an Indian kitchen, Hollywood, San Francisco and two villages in the German countryside. Each place has its own landmarks, and the tracks have climbs, jumps and bridges over rivers. Pick one on the start screen, or join whatever race is on. FIVE E-CARS Roadster, SUV, Microbus, Pickup and a Semi with its trailer: from quick and twitchy to slow and heavy with a huge battery. Heavier cars win rams and shrug off hits, bigger batteries run dry less often, so each of them can win. MADE FOR THUMBS Your E-Car accelerates by itself. Hold a thumb left or right to steer, and tap the one action button to fire or use your item. Choose Buttons or Slider steering and which corner the pad sits in, and try them out on the Practice Ground first. On iPad, a hardware keyboard or a game controller works too. NO CONNECTION, NO PROBLEM When the server cannot be reached, you race the bots offline. APPLE WATCH Race the bots on your wrist: steer with the Digital Crown and tap to use your item. A cel-shaded comic look with bold outlines, a chiptune soundtrack and cartoon voices for every racer. No account, no ads, no in-app purchases. Just race.