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Home Alone
Play NES Home Alone online. Help Kevin collect and set traps, plan routes through the house, and evade Harry and Marv until the police arrive.
Browser play
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| A / B | Z / X |
| START / SELECT | Enter / V |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Home Alone
Quick start
Press START and learn the exits from the foyer before the burglars close in. Use A near a trap item to pick it up, SELECT to choose what you carry, and B to place it on a pursuit route. Keep a spare trap for vulnerable stair sections. Check Kevin and deployed traps on the START map. If hiding, begin before either burglar enters and move on after a short respite instead of waiting in one spot.
Controls
Left/right: move; diagonal directions: follow stairs; up: climb or hide at a hiding place when the room has no burglar; down: climb down. A: collect a trap; B: set the selected trap; SELECT: cycle carried items, up to three. START: begin, or pause and show the map; press another key to resume. Above a chandelier, down+A drops it if Kevin carries fewer than three items.
Home Alone — About this game
NES Home Alone turns the McCallister house into a timed escape challenge. Kevin must avoid capture until the police arrive, moving between the house, basement, and tree-house routes while the two burglars search for him. Household objects can be collected and set as traps, but he can carry only three at once. A successful trap buys time rather than permanently removing a pursuer, and used traps need resetting while they remain available. Hiding can help only briefly and must begin while no burglar is in the room. Planning escape routes, saving an item for the stairs, and checking the pause map are more useful than treating this as a conventional jump-and-shoot platformer.
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · nes
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
Sources and editorial basis
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