It had power-ups such as extend bar, double ball, shooting, and the level-skipper. It was the first video game that had balls that changed their direction when they are hit and power-ups dropping from above.
The game was later emulated to C64 and Amiga, which made it even more popular by entering homes. There were many innovations everywhere in the game resulting in a significantly higher overall quality. In Arkanoid, a highly sophisticated game compared to Breakout, the player was controlling a capsule called Vaus that fled from a monster in space. So Taito made a new Breakout clone for arcade centers called Arkanoid. With the developments in the digital field Breakout was losing popularity. It had its place as a favorite in arcade centers in the first half of 1980’s. It had clever and innovative features such as the multiple balls mode which increased the number of interactable objects on the screen. Super Breakout, the successor to Breakout, was released as a game that was as plain and simple as possible in 1978. This black and white game that was colorized with the help of cellophane would be an inspiration for the new games with its software, controls, and chipset design. The first Breakout game symbolizes a prisoner breaking the walls with the shackles on his feet and was originally developed by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs for an arcade machine. (The game where you play table tennis with two on screen rectangles.) The game is the brainchild of Atari’s founder Nolan Bushnell. It’s released as an improved version of Atari’s first game Pong. The antique video game Breakout that Atari developed in 1976 is a simple yet important game. The name of this company was such a household name that here in Turkey we would call arcades “Atari Halls”. One of the oldest video game developers is Atari. Back then games being developed were limited by the capabilities of the chipsets. They were just chipsets that projected shapes on the screen. The machines utilized to develop the games of that era were not even proper computers. Home computing wasn’t even a known concept when the game that defines this genre was released. I guess the best way to tell you about such an ancient genre is by talking about the games that have left their marks on yours truly.
DX BALL 3 GAME ONLINE SERIES
Thanks to one of the latest games I’ve played, which I will mention later on, I decided to start this series with one of the oldest genres out there: brick breaker. Ever since I started writing online articles one of the things I have always wanted to do was to analyze the evolution of certain game genres and simultaneously commemorate some of my favorite games in the meantime. I have been an avid video gamer for 35 years.
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