About TELETEXT
TELETEXT begins with a premise as strange as it sounds: you came to tune a television set, and it swallowed you. Now you are the Eye, navigating a neon grid crawling with bugs inside what the game describes as a night arcade built out of two old screens — a glowing neon grid and a teletext service that should have died in 1999. Several scenes show a dark environment with a glowing cyan and magenta isometric grid floor, its surface rippling with varying elevation. The tone is fast-paced arcade action wrapped in a deliberately retro pixel aesthetic, with waves of insects, a Match-3 strike system, and a line-drawing mechanic all competing for your attention at once.
How to Play TELETEXT
Move the Eye across the grid collecting coins. A strike costs five coins on EASY and seven on NOT EASY. Two distinct strike tools are available depending on which input you reach for.
Match-3 Strike
Opening the Match-3 board lets you match a colour, which marks every bug of that colour inside your ring. Confirm the selection and FIRE to clear them.
FILL IT Strike
The FILL IT tool asks you to draw a line through three cells or more. The longer the line you complete, the more bugs the resulting lightning destroys.
Progression and Upgrades
Raise pyramids to print magazine pages and tune the antennas to get out. Five double cherries open the slot machine. Spending five molecules triggers an upgrade, and a separate input levels up the turret.
Game Modes
- EASY: strikes cost five coins
- NOT EASY: strikes cost seven coins
- KEYBOARD MASTER: keys only, 15-second waves, double score
Enemies
- Hornets
- Mantises
- Centipedes
- Brood queen
Ongoing Content
A daily signal, missions, Eye skins, and leaderboards extend play beyond individual runs.
Controls
- Arrow keys / WASD: Move the Eye
- Mouse movement: Move the Eye
- Drag the stick (phone): Move the Eye
- Space / Right mouse button: Open the Match-3 board
- Tap the stick (phone): Open the Match-3 board
- Q / Button beside the stick: Open FILL IT
- E: Spend five molecules on an upgrade
- T: Level up the turret
Games You Might Like
If the wave-survival tension of TELETEXT appeals to you, survival games on Playgama offer a wide range of enemy-wave and endurance challenges worth exploring. For more neon-lit arcade action with physics-based combat and escalating enemy waves, Neon Archer puts you on rooftops drawing and releasing arrows against waves of enemy archers. Territory control fans who enjoy the grid-claiming side of TELETEXT's arena will find a natural fit in Expand.io, where outsmarting opponents and claiming space drives every match.
Browse the full arcade games collection for more fast-paced score-chasing titles, or check out 3D games for visually distinct takes on the same arcade-action energy.