the cabinet up top is the real game, rebuilt. aim the beam, arc it onto the targets, clear the wave. runs right in your browser. hold 500,000 $CATHODE in your wallet to play and rank.
drag on the screen or use the arrow keys to set your angle and power.
let go or hit space. the beam arcs like a real shot, so lead the target.
wipe every target to move up a wave. it gets faster, your score goes up.
two ways to win. the drop pays the live number one every few hours from creator fees. tournaments are scheduled events with a fixed $CATHODE pool, where the top runs inside the window split the prize.
whoever is number one when the timer hits zero takes a slice of creator fees, then it resets. hold your spot.
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no fake points and nothing to claim by hand. the only thing that pays is your rank on the live board. every few hours the current number one takes a cut of the creator fees, sent straight to their wallet. hold $CATHODE to be eligible.
on a rolling timer, whoever sits at number one on the board wins a share of creator fees. watch the clock and defend your spot.
scheduled events with a fixed prize pool. the best runs inside the window split the pot. check the tournaments tab.
you need a minimum $CATHODE balance to collect. anyone can play, payouts go to holders.
back in 1947, two engineers named Thomas Goldsmith and Estle Ray Mann patented a machine that fired a glowing dot at targets on a tube screen. no computer, no software, just knobs and a cathode ray. it is the first electronic game anyone has ever found, a full 25 years before pong. we rebuilt it. play it in the cabinet up top, and $CATHODE is the coin around it.
everything about the cabinet, the token, and how the board pays. if you read two things, read rewards and leaderboard and fair play.
$CATHODE is a solana token built around the first electronic game ever made, the 1947 cathode-ray tube amusement device. the cabinet at the top of this page is a working rebuild of that machine.
hold 500,000 $CATHODE to play, and your best run lands you on a live leaderboard, and the top of that board gets paid in $CATHODE. no airdrop forms, no discord roles to grind. you play, you climb, you get paid.
the cabinet is a top down radar scope. a reticle follows your pointer. drag or use the arrow keys to aim, then click or hit space to fire a blip that arcs toward the reticle and detonates. lead the target like a real shot.
$CATHODE is a community token on solana, launched on pump.fun. the contract address, supply, and live market all live on its pump.fun page. only ever reach it through the official link on this site.
you must hold at least 500,000 $CATHODE to play. the hold is your coin for the cabinet. it gets you into the game and makes you eligible for the rewards drop. no hold, no play.
$CATHODE has no intrinsic value and no promise of profit. it is a membership in the cabinet and a meme about the machine that started it all.
the model is simple: sit at the top, get paid. it runs on a creator-fee flywheel, the same shape that works for onchain game coins.
scores are stored in an off chain database, not on the solana chain. that keeps play instant and free, but it means a raw score sent by a browser cannot be blindly trusted.
so before any $CATHODE goes out, the top wallets get reviewed: the minimum hold is checked and impossible runs are filtered out. payouts go to real players, not scripts.
the honest version: client side scores can be faked. manual review is the current defense, and server side score validation is the planned hardening. we would rather say that plainly than pretend the board is trustless when it is not yet.
the short version: harden scoring on the server, automate onchain payouts, add seasonal tournaments and cosmetics, and keep the cabinet faithful to 1947. the full timeline lives in the roadmap section below.
$CATHODE is a community meme token. it is not an investment, it carries no promise of profit, and its value can go to zero. nothing here is financial advice. play because the history is cool, not because you expect a return. do your own research.