Bomber Friends

Why We Picked Bomber Friends

Bomber Friends is a four-minute game with a restart button that costs nothing, which is the whole of its design. Every run starts from zero; the only thing carried between attempts is what you learned about the pattern. The scoring is simple enough to argue about, which is the sign of a good one. It stays because the restart is instant, and instant restarts are the whole economy of arcade games. By the numbers: 312 of 500 on the arcade shelf, 3.4 out of 5 from 41 ratings, and 1,955 plays.

How to Play

The page documents very little, so these are the things worth knowing before you spend time on it:

• Avoid pinch-zooming the page; it shifts pointer coordinates and makes small targets hard to hit.
• Survive as long as the game allows and let the number measure it.
• Watch the middle of the screen, not the last thing that moved.

Editor’s Note

Sound helps, and sound in a shared room is the reason the mute control exists. The category is the oldest thing in the library, and its games still assume a keyboard and a short attention span.

Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.