| 100%the 1996 original | 50levels | FREEnothing to install | TOPshared high scores |
Play DX-Ball online
DX-Ball is the classic brick breaker Michael P. Welch released for Windows in 1996. Move the paddle with the mouse, bounce the ball and smash the coloured bricks. Clear the screen to reach the next level; there are 50 of them. Broken bricks drop power-ups: some help, such as a longer paddle or guns, and some get in your way.
Play DX-Ball right here in your browser, free and with nothing to install. The game starts on its own: click its window to turn the sound on and play.
Controls
| Mouse | moves the paddle |
|---|---|
| Left button | launches the ball and fires when the paddle has guns |
| P | pause |
| Esc | back to the menu |
| F5 / F6 | another tune / music off |
The real thing
This is not a remake. The original DXBALL.EXE was decompiled into C source code and compiled to WebAssembly, so the game plays exactly as it did in 1996: the same ball physics, levels, graphics, sounds and MIDI music. It runs in any modern browser on Windows, macOS and Linux.
If your score makes the top list at the end of a game, it goes into the shared high score table that every player on the site can see.
History
dx-ball.ru started in 2012, when Maxim Borodin rewrote DX-Ball in JavaScript. That version is still here: DX-Ball in JavaScript. Its making-of is told in an article on Habr (in Russian). In 2026 Denis Borodin decompiled the original game and brought it to the browser: that is the version you play here now.
Add DX-Ball to your site
DX-Ball is free to embed on your website or blog. Copy this code: the game runs in a 4:3 window, with sound and the shared high score table.