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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
Bridge it
Bridge It!: This game might have been to build a bridge to get across to another point.
Bridge it 2
Bridge It! #2: It is mostly similar to Bridge It!, except it is much longer and the objective is to go diagonally.
Contain it
Contain It!: In this minigame, balls would drop and would have to avoid touching the baseplate.
Beat the lions
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.
Dangerous driver
Dangerous Driver: This was a game about driving on a narrow bridge without falling off of it.
2005Highwaydriver
Highway Driver: This might be a game about avoiding obstacles on a straight road.
Crash driver
Crash Driver: In this minigame, the objective was either crash into objects for points.
Block it
Block It!: In this minigame, balls had to be blocked from touching the red Lose beacon.
Level #2 - Block It!: This has not been found but exists. More balls were possibly added.
Block it 3
Level #3 - Block It!: In this minigame, more balls were added.
Remove it
REMOVE IT: In this minigame, obstacles had to be removed for the ball to travel through.
Racegame
Race! #2: This was a 2-person game about getting to the win cylinder before the opponent.
Use strategy to win
Use strategy to win: This might have been an attempt at a strategy game.
Ground env
Ground Environment: This minigame template allowed a player to build anything they wanted. It is the equivalent of the Baseplate template in Roblox Studio.
Junkyard Wars: This was a game about shooting robots on a custom vehicle the player created.
R5ain
r5ain: This might have been an attempt at raindrops.
UnknownPlace
Crash Driver [June/July 2005]: This was a game about colliding into obstacles for points.
The idea of war
The Idea of WAR: This was a 2-person game about fighting bulldozers to get to the win cylinder while avoiding the lose cylinder.
Spasmotron2 vs wimpotron2
Spasmotron2 vs. Wimpotron2: In this minigame, the two robots had to fight each other.
Balance #1: 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.
Puzzle
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.")
Steer The Spheres #2: This was an easier version of Steer The Spheres. It has not been found but exists.
Parrot2005
Parrot Cay: In this minigame, a player had to sail to another island or to fight a nearby ship with cannons.
Castle
King Arthur's Castle: This game was a building showcase.
  • Other Minigames that have little-to-no information are:
    • Pioneer Home
    • backyard adventure
    • Push Off!
    • Ground Environment : Hard
    • Ocean Attack
    • Resolve It!
    • City Skirmish
    • Helipads BETA
    • Watch
    • First Person Experiment
    • City #3
    • Bridge It! #4
    • Level #1 - Block It
  • All known 2004 minigames are:
    • Ground Environment (November 2004) ​​
    • Do not disturb the dynamite (August 9, 2004) ​​
    • Spasmotron2 vs Wimpotron2 (July 31, 2004) ​​
    • John's Puzzle Game (January 2004) ​​

Rankings[]

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 and retnea are banned as of now.

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

Trivia[]

This section is a trivia section. Please relocate any relevant information into other sections of the article.

  • 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.
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