Open Source

Terminal Arcade

15 retro games, mesmerizing visualizations, and powerful tools -- all running inside your terminal. No GUI required.

Programs

Choose Your Adventure

From classic arcade games to stunning visualizations, every program runs entirely in your terminal using Python and curses.

// Live Preview

See It in Action

Watch Terminal Arcade come to life -- right here in a simulated terminal.

terminal-arcade -- zsh -- 80x24

🎫

Pure Terminal No GUI, no browser needed

⚡

Zero Config Clone, run, play

🚀

Lightweight Python + curses only

🎨

Beautiful Unicode + ANSI colors

// Getting Started

Up and Running in Seconds

No dependencies to install, no configuration to fiddle with. Just clone and go.

Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/wang2-lat/terminal-arcade.git
cd terminal-arcade

Run Any Program

# Pick your favorite
python snake.py
python tetris.py
python matrix.py

🐍 Python 3 ⌨ curses 🎨 Unicode Art 💻 Terminal Native 🐧 Linux 🍎 macOS 🔧 Open Source

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     | | | |___|  _ <| |  | || || |\  |/ ___ \| |___   / ___ \|  _ <| |___ / ___ \| |_| | |___
     |_| |_____|_| \_\_|  |_|___|_| \_/_/   \_\_____| /_/   \_\_| \_\\____/_/   \_\____/|_____|