Minigames

For the type of Roblox game, see Minigames (places).

Minigames were the original levels of Roblox before the introduction of avatar-controlled games. During 2004 and 2005, when Roblox was in beta, players would play minigames and earn ROBLOX Points.

List of original minigames

Image	Description	ID	Creator
	John's Puzzle Game: It might have been similar to Bridge It!, but instead you build a bridge that doesn't break.	Unknown (Maybe ID 1?)	Unknown (Probably someone named John)
	Bridge It!: This game might have been to build a bridge to get across to another point.	839	Erik.cassel
	Bridge It! #2: It is mostly similar to Bridge It!, except it is much longer and the objective is to go diagonally.	882	Erik.cassel
	Contain It!: In this minigame, balls would drop and would have to avoid touching the baseplate. Erik.cassel mentioned that he beated elvisarea51's highscore in this game.	870	Unknown
	Beat the lions: In this minigame, the players vehicle might have had to run from "lions". It was very popular, staying on Top Games for a while.	872	Unknown
	Dangerous Driver: This was a game about driving on a narrow bridge without falling off of it.	883	David.baszucki
	Highway Driver: This might be a game about avoiding obstacles on a straight road.	1316	Unknown
	Crash Driver v2: In this minigame, the objective was either crash into objects for points.	Unknown (Maybe ID 684?)	David.baszucki
	Block It!: In this minigame, balls had to be blocked from touching the red Lose beacon.	865	David.baszucki
	Level #2 - Block It!: This has not been found but exists. More balls were possibly added.	Unknown	David.baszucki
	Dangerous Driver V9: This was a game about driving on a narrow bridge without falling off of it.	Unknown (Maybe ID 682?)	David.baszucki
	Level #3 - Block It!: In this minigame, more balls were added.	683	David.baszucki
	REMOVE IT v5: In this minigame, obstacles had to be removed for the ball to travel through.	687 or Higher	Erik.cassel
	Race! #2: This was a 2-person game about getting to the win cylinder before the opponent.	Unknown (Maybe ID 685?)	Erik.cassel
	Fend off the bots: This was a game about keeping the ‘bots’ at bay and getting them off the platform using the "SPAWN GUN".	1184	David.baszucki
	Use strategy to win: This might have been an attempt at a strategy game.	1021	Unknown
	Ground Environment: This minigame template allowed a player to build anything they wanted. It is the equivalent of the Baseplate template in Roblox Studio.	884	Erik.cassel
	Junkyard Wars: This was a game about shooting robots on a custom vehicle the player created.	1349	David.baszucki
	r5ain: This might have been an attempt at raindrops.	1313	Unknown
	Crash Driver: This was a game about colliding into obstacles for points.	846	David.baszucki
	The Idea of WAR: This was a 2-person game about fighting bulldozers to get to the win cylinder while avoiding the lose cylinder.	691 or Higher	Nueva7
	Spasmotron2 vs. Wimpotron2: In this minigame, the two robots had to fight each other.	Unknown	David.baszucki
	Balance: In this minigame, players had to balance parts on a scale to try and keep them as balanced as possible. More ROBLOX Points were rewarded for the fewer parts used. This is one of the few places from Summer 2005 to have a description. The game as a contest is called: Balance #1	1435	David.baszucki
	Steer The Spheres: In it, two balls had to be controlled into a red goal. It had a description, like Balance #1 when they were top games (Note: Steer the Spheres was mentioned in the News box on July 9, 2005. It was the "hardest contest yet" and described itself as "It's like mini-golf where you can change the course.")	1455	both David.baszucki,Erik.cassel worked on it
	Steer The Spheres #2: This was an easier version of Steer The Spheres. It has not been found but exists.	1481	Erik.cassel
	Parrot Cay: In this minigame, a player had to sail to another island or to fight a nearby ship with cannons.	1307	Morgan
	King Arthur's Castle: This game was a building showcase.	Unknown (Maybe ID 1298?)	Erik.cassel

Minigames that have little to no information

Image	Description	ID	Creator
	Pioneer Home: This is Most likely a showcase of a Pioneer House.	1483	Unknown
	backyard adventure: Most likely an attempt at making an adventure game.	1416	Unknown
	Push Off!: Probably a game about pushing blocks, cylinders, balls down a hill.	850	Unknown (Erik.cassel Maybe?)
	Ground Environment: Hard: Most likely a modified version of the "Ground Enviroment" template place.	1353	Unknown
	Ocean Attack: Mostly Unknown, probably an attempt to make a submarine fighting game. The game was created by Woodgie.	1394	Woodgie
	Resolve It!: Mostly Unknown, probably an attempt to make an puzzle game.	Unknown	Unknown (Erik.cassel Maybe?)
	city skirmish: Most likely an attempt to make a medival city.	1453	Unknown
	Helipads BETA: Most likely an attempt to make helicopters.	1185	Unknown
	Watch: Unknown.	1186	Unknown
	City #3 (Original): An attempt to make a city. Erik.cassel mentioned that he mounted a "Saw Blade" on one of the cars in it.	874	david.baszucki or Loch56 (erik.cassel refers to an individual named "Dave". This was either david.baszucki, or potentially Loch56, who had the name "Dave".
	City #3 (Patched version): An attempt to make a city. It was patched due to a broken "Lose game Beacon".	875	Unknown (Probably someone named Dave)
	Bridge It! V4: This game might have been to build a bridge to get across to another point. It is unknown if the previous version of this game, V3, ever existed.	688 or Higher	Erik.cassel
	Life Pool: Most Likely an attempt to make a life simulator.	692 or Higher	Nueva7
	Level #1 - Block It: Most Likely an earlier version of "Block It!".	Unknown	David.baszucki
	matt green ball 1: Unknown.	686 or Higher	Matt
	Tank--Finished: Most likely a tank model.	1373	Unknown
	Tank Ram Car: Most likely a tank model that could ram into walls.	1352	Unknown
	Block: Most likely just blocks.	1335	Unknown
	supply delivery!: Most likely an attempt to make a game about delivering stuff.	1394	Unknown
	1st Person Experiment: Most likely an attempt to make a 1st person character.	1451	Unknown
	Rain on a log cabin 2: Most likely an attempt to make a log cabin showcase with rain.	1461	Unknown
	Jugglers: Most likely an attempt to make a figure that can juggle.	1442	Unknown
	tunnel 2: Most likely an attempt to make a tunnel.	1478	Unknown
	tunnel 3: Most likely an attempt to make a tunnel.	1479	Unknown
	destroy to win yayayayayayayay: Most likely an attempt to make a part that was impossible to destroy.	1350	Unknown
	Bridge It! #2 Contest - Beat this: Most likely a contest version of "Bridge it! #2".	1247	Erik.cassel
	Unknown Game: This game is currently unknown but it looks similar to "Beat the lions".	871	Unknown
	Do not disturb the dynamite: Mostly Unknown, According to Erik.cassel it reminded him of "Don't break the ice" board game.	Unknown	Unknown

• All known 2004 minigames are:
  • "Ground Environment" (November 2004) (ID: 884)
  • "Do not disturb the dynamite" (August 9, 2004) (Unknown) ​​
  • "Spasmotron2 vs Wimpotron2" (July 31, 2004)​​
  • "John's Puzzle Game" (January 2004) (Maybe ID 1, but its still unknown) ​​

ROBLOX U.S. Minigame Patent (c. March 18, 2005)

2 "Bridge it!" Minigames put in order (c. 2005)

Early placeholder when a Minigame Thumbnail couldn't be displayed (2005)

Rankings

Main page: ROBLOX Points

With ROBLOX Points, players would be included in rankings, which were taken off by October 2005 when Roblox was revamped. This table displays the top users before Roblox revamped.

Woodgie, ToddB, TheNomad, raabs, philip, and retnea are banned as of now.

User	ROBLOX Points
Woodgie	14079
Matt	13775
philip	10270
retnea	5323
david.baszucki	5317
William	5292
ToddB	4602
TheNomad	4515
elvisarea51	3707
raabs	2843
Scott	2817

Trivia

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• Beat The Lions was really popular, staying at Top Games for almost a week.
• The News Box on the top of the page chronicles the "contests" as they called them.
• As of November 2021, the latest players to be online that were on the leaderboard are William, elvisarea51, phillip, and Matt all of them being online within five years.
  • William is the most recent player to be online, last online November 29, 2021.
  • phillip is the second most recent player to be online, last online November 22, 2021.
  • Matt's online date was reset back to 2006 for unknown reasons.
• When Roblox beta ended, the colors of all in-game Roblox Beta models were slightly altered due to a brickcolor update. Most of the images on the Roblox site on the WayBack Machine are from 2006 according to this and the fact that light reflection was not yet a feature in 2005.
• The screenshots of Steer The Spheres, Parrot Cay and King Arthur's Castle were from http://cs.brown.edu/~morgan/games/.
• There was an asset wipe on May 10, 2005, that wiped all models and games from prior.
• FWM place has reconstruction of Pioneer Home despite lack of information.
• Spasmotron2 vs Wimpotron2 would not have ID 1 because there used to be "Spasmotron vs Wimpotron".
• Erik.cassel Refrences that "Do not disturb the dynamite" reminds him of the "Don't Break the Ice" board game.
• On February 27th, 2006, Minigames were removed.
  • On that day (presumably), player IDs from 116 to 154 were wiped.