🐛 Bug Blaster

By Khelo Zone Editorial Team · October 2026

Score 0

Lives 3

Wave 1

🐛 Bug Blaster

A segmented bug chain is weaving down through the mushroom field toward your blaster. Shoot it apart — every hit splits the chain into faster pieces and turns the broken segment into a mushroom. Don't let it reach the bottom! 3 lives, endless waves.

Move: ← → or A / D · Shoot: Space · Mobile: drag to move, tap to shoot.

How to play

Bug Blaster is a love letter to the classic Centipede arcade cabinets. A long, segmented bug chain descends from the top of the screen, snaking left and right through a field of mushrooms. You pilot a lone blaster along the bottom of the field, and your job is simple: shoot the chain apart before it crawls down far enough to reach you. Every bullet that strikes a segment destroys it — but the chain doesn't die quietly. The hit splits the chain in two, and the broken-off tail becomes a brand-new head that drops toward you at even higher speed. Destroyed segments don't vanish either: each one sprouts into a fresh mushroom, and mushrooms bend the chain's path, forcing it to drop a row and reverse direction whenever it bumps into one. You can shoot mushrooms too — two hits clears one — so carve firing lanes through the densest patches. If any bug segment reaches your blaster's row, or a diving head rams you, you lose a life. You get 3 lives, and clearing a whole wave summons a longer, faster chain for the next round.

Controls

Keyboard: hold ← / → (or A / D) to slide your blaster along the bottom. Press Space to fire upward.
Touch: drag your finger anywhere on the playfield to steer the blaster — it tracks your fingertip horizontally. A quick tap (without dragging) fires a shot.
New Game restarts instantly at wave 1 with a fresh mushroom field and your score reset.

Tips & strategy

Aim for the middle of the chain, not the head. A middle hit creates two shorter chains, but a head hit just makes the tail dive at you faster — pick your moment.
Keep the bottom rows clear. Mushrooms near your blaster give diving heads cover to drop quickly, so spend a few shots clearing the lowest rows early.
Watch for the dive. When a chain splits, the new head drops a full row instantly and speeds up — back off and line up your next shot instead of holding your ground.
Fire in bursts. You can keep several shots in the air at once, so lead the head slightly and let a stream of bullets walk into the chain's path.

Scoring

Every destroyed bug segment scores 10 points and every smashed mushroom scores 1 point. Clearing an entire wave banks a bonus of 50 × the wave number. There is no finish line — waves keep coming longer and faster, so your final score is your bragging right. Losing all 3 lives ends the run and the game-over screen shows your score with a one-click restart.