About the Retro Arcade What's Missing? Game
A picture-recall challenge based on the classic parlour game. Study a board of pictures for a few seconds, then one quietly disappears — can you say which? Rounds get bigger and faster as you go, and three wrong answers ends the run.
The glow of a CRT, a pocket full of coins and your three-letter name at the top of the leaderboard. Our retro arcade deck is a love letter to the golden age of video games — ghosts, invaders, joysticks and cherry bonuses included.
How to Play
- Press Start and memorise every picture on the board.
- After a few seconds the board hides and one picture is removed.
- Pick the missing picture from the answer choices.
- Each correct answer adds a bigger board. Three misses ends the game.
Why Play What's Missing?
- Trains observation and visual recall under time pressure
- Based on "Kim’s Game", used for over a century in memory training
- Great party and classroom game — call answers out loud together
Fun Facts About Retro Arcade
- Pong (1972) was the first commercially successful video game.
- Space Invaders (1978) was so popular in Japan that it is often blamed — probably apocryphally — for a coin shortage.
- Pac-Man's designer said the character's shape was inspired by a pizza with a slice missing.
- At its 1982 peak, the American arcade industry made more money than Hollywood and pop music combined.