A dozen cabinets in a month: what vibe-coding an arcade taught me

Vibe Arcade started as a bet: how many playable, neon-soaked remakes could one builder and a fleet of agents ship in a month? Twelve on the marquee, it turns out — Breakout Cyber, NewsHack Word Matrix, Circuit Runner, Neowave Invaders, Centipede Cyberwave, DataStream Matrix, News Asteroids Blast, Feed Maze Navigator, Neon Snake Cyber, Retro Pong Duel, Missile Command Neo and Frogger Datastream — with a Q*bert Quantum cabinet still in the repo, mobile editions for most, adaptive music layers, and RSS news feeds wired into the gameplay.

It also left a punch list: a React build that needs a typecheck pass before anyone trusts it, and a reminder that speed without a gate is just debt with better lighting. Placeholder for the full retrospective.