Summary
Not a particularly good Arkanoid clone.
The Good
Bananoid is not a really good game. What IS good about it though, is the great programming technique of
Bill Reider. The game runs completely smoothly on just about any old hardware (used to work fine on my 486 with Trident 8900C/D), and utilizes a very rarely used tweaked mode of 360x240, which works quite well. I also like the
idea of two parts of the screen side by side, by admittedly the implementation is quite horrible. Still, the ingame graphics are fairly good and the animation is smooth.
The Bad
Gameplay-wise Bananoid sucks. It's simply not fun. I can appreciate good programming as much (even more) as the next guy, but still - the game really is horrible to play. The mouse controls are erratic at best and the angle calculation doesn't make any sense what-so-ever. And to top it all, terrible, almost none-existing sound effects add a great deal to the frustration of a player.
The Bottom Line
In short - a wonderfully programmed but terrible game.
