How to play
Pellet Pursuit is a RetroArcade original maze chase, inspired by the golden-age games that made the genre famous but built entirely from our own code, art, and synthesized sound. Steer through the maze with the arrow keys or WASD (a touch d-pad appears on phones and tablets) and clear every pellet to advance. Three pursuers hunt you with distinct personalities: Blaze charges straight at your position, Snare aims four tiles ahead to cut you off, and Wobble picks random turns you can never quite predict.
The four large power pellets flip the chase for a few seconds — pursuers turn blue and slow, and catching one scores 200, 400, then 800 points as the chain grows. Each level shrinks that safety window and speeds everyone up. You start with three lives and earn a bonus life at 10,000 points; the top five scores are saved in your browser with old-school three-initial entry.
Tip: the side tunnels wrap around the maze and the pursuers slow down inside them — use them to reset a bad chase. Back to the RetroArcade Arcade, or read how the maze-chase genre conquered the world in our Golden Age of Arcade Games hub.