The NOFUNNY Originals

Five games designed and built in-house by NOFUNNYSHXT in the Bronx — small, honest browser games with neighborhood stories inside them. Here is how each one plays, with tips from testing them ourselves.

Stoop City — run the block

A tiny top-down city life sim about one block and the race to own it. You start by your parked car with $20; the goal is $500 and running the block. Honest money first: pizza jobs from the Pizza Shop and passengers on corners. Press E by your car to drive the block — the same keys move you on foot and behind the wheel. Save $300 and the Corner Store pays you steady income while you play. Sleep and stash cash at your crib, where a police fine can never touch it. The louder route exists too — rob the rival shop, boost the purple car, lockpick houses after dark, sell loot at the Chop Shop. Crime raises your heat in stars; getting caught costs a $50 fine from carried cash. After dark the Clinic sells vampire and wolf forms — faster on foot, unlocked once, switchable whenever you like.

Tips: the Corner Store pays for itself — make it your first big buy. Stash cash before any crime run. Inside a house, leave early: one item too many wakes everybody up. Play Stoop City free.

Bronx Ollie — one button, zero brakes

An endless skateboard runner set on Bronx sidewalks. Your skater rolls faster and faster past fire hydrants, trash cans and parked bikes. You get one move — Space, W, the Up arrow, or a tap on mobile — to ollie whatever is coming. Clip anything and the run ends: no extra lives, no checkpoints, just you and the distance counter. Your best score saves on your device, so every run is a fresh shot at it.

Tips: jump earlier than feels natural — your skater carries real momentum. Watch the gap pattern, not just the next obstacle: back-to-back obstacles need one clean, early jump. Play Bronx Ollie free.

Bodega Catch — catch the good stuff

A fast falling-object catcher with a corner-store heart. Snacks, sodas and fruit rain down; slide your basket with mouse, arrow keys or drag to catch them. Every good catch is +10, and every so often a golden money bag drops for +50. The trap is the trash bags: catch one and it costs a heart — you only have three. The longer you last, the faster everything falls. Your best score saves on your device.

Tips: position beats speed — park under the next good item instead of chasing every drop. A trash bag beside a snack is bait; hearts beat 10 points. The money bag is the exception: worth five snacks, so go get it. Play Bodega Catch free.

Block Life — your block, your hustle

A mini life sim about one block and the person leveling it up: you. Day 1 starts with $20. Hold the action button at a job spot to work a shift and stack cash. Working burns energy, so stop at the corner store: a hot meal is $6 and restores 45 energy. The store also sells sneakers ($60, 30% faster) and the block bike ($180, faster by a mile). Sleep at your apartment to start each day fresh — and do not loiter mid-street; the Block Captain patrols it. Stack $500 and the neighborhood levels up; after that, play endless.

Tips: eat before your energy bottoms out — a $6 meal is cheaper than a wasted day. Sneakers pay for themselves: faster walking means more shifts per day. Play Block Life free.

Snack Slice — mind the bomb

A swipe-and-slice arcade game that takes ten seconds to learn. Snacks launch into the air; drag a finger or mouse through them to slice and score. Slice several in one swipe to score fast — 3 or more in one swipe lands a combo. Drop a snack and you lose one of three misses; drop three and the round is over. And never slice the bomb: it ends your run on the spot.

Tips: wait half a beat — snacks tossed together fall to one wide combo swipe. Slice on the way up and down to cover twice the sky. When a bomb is up, hands off until it clears. Play Snack Slice free.

All five are free, need no download, and work on phones, tablets, Chromebooks and computers — find them in the NOFUNNY Originals row on the arcade homepage.