Atari 2600

Breakout

Description

In Breakout, there is a wall of bricks along the top of the screen and your goal is to destroy the entire wall one brick at a time! To do this, you control a paddle at the bottom of the screen which is used to reflect a bouncing ball into the bricks. When the ball hits a brick, it will destroy it. You start with five balls, and the game ends when all five fall off the bottom of the screen. Also included are several game variations, including breakthru (the ball will go straight through bricks instead of bouncing back), timed breakout (you have a time limit to gain as many points as you can), and invisible breakout (the bricks are only visible for a short while after one of them is hit). Other variations allow you to catch the ball or control the direction of the ball.

Alternate Titles

• "Breakaway IV" -- Sears Tele-Games release

Part of the Following Group

• Breakout variants

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User Reviews

First great one player game	eratik (95)
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Just your basic Arkanoid...	VortexS130 (86)

The Press Says

Game Freaks 365	2002	8 out of 10	80
The Video Game Critic	Feb 14, 2004	C-	42

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Trivia

The participation of Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in the development of the original arcade version of this game (following a design by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell) may explain why it is always one of the first games available for play on any Apple platform.