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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
H-Ball	author	19??	Also released as part of the "50 Great Games" compilation by Wicked Software in 1991.
Amiganoid	?	198?	This entry gives me a lot of headaches. The game was reviewed in Gen4 magazine back in 1988. But I could not find anything anywhere else about this particular game. All references to a game with the title "Amiganoid" are for a 1993 version from Digital Illusions, which by the screenshots is a totally different game.*** [22]
Brick Out	author	198?
3D Breakout	author	1986	Also released as part of the "50 Great Games" compilation by Wicked Software in 1991.
Act Out	Digital Image (BSG Cologne)	1987
Amegas	Pandora;Golden Games;Digitek (reLINE Software)	1987	Amegas is a Breakout variant which conforms to, and expands on the play mechanics of the established Arkanoid canon. The basic lay remains to control a bat which slides back and forth at the bottom of the screen. Stacks of coloured bricks are arranged in patterns above. The object is being to bounce a ball to hit the bricks to make them disappear. Some bricks’ require multiple hits to destroy - visually indicated by dots shown on the face. Some special bricks are distinguished from others by unique icons, e.g. one with a’ skull’ will result in a loss of life if hit by the ball, or one with an ‘x’ mark will cause new bricks to spawn & spread. At times bricks will yield colour-coded pickups which topple down and may be caught, resulting in a special power-up feature being given. A unique play facet presented here is that power-ups’ are not activated automatically, but rather are reserved - The player may utilise the last power-up collected upon clicking the right mouse button, this remains true even if a ball is lost.* [103]* [4]* [22]* [1]* [47]* [33]
Arkanoid	Discovery Software	1987	Can you survive the challenge? The award winning arcade original voted "one of the best home video games ever" by Electronic Game Player Magazine is ready and waiting for you to play on your home computer. The non-stop space action thrusts you into a do-or-die battle for survival and thrills you through 33 screens of challenge and excitement. Arkanoid game features include arcade quality graphics, full range sound effects and 33 action screens. Taito is the world's largest manufacturer and operator of arcade games. We practically started the video game revolution with our classic hit, Space Invaders (tm). Since 1953 Taito has created more than 1,000 other great action games for arcade and home play. Now Taito brings that same excitement and pioneering spirit into your home with such games as Arkanoid (tm), Bubble Bobble (tm), Renegade (tm), Alcon (tm), Rastan (tm), Sky Shark (tm), Operation Wolf (tm), Gladiator (tm) and more to come on software formats for your Commodore, Amiga, Atari, IBM and Apple computers. Taito games are more than just fun. We bring you games that test your nerve and challenge your strategy - games that make you laugh and put you at the edge of your seat. Taito brings you adventures that take you to places you've never been before - to brave new worlds of imagination and fantasy. After all, isn't that what great video games are all about?* [76]* [4]* [57]* [22]*** [52]
Ball Raider	Diamond (Golden Gate Crew)	1987	To become a member of the Warrior Guild, you must complete 25 levels of Ball Raider in the year 2488. Ball Raider is a Breakout variant where you have to hit a ball with a bat at the bottom of the screen towards bricks at the top of the screen. Your bat catches the ball each time it hits it so you can move your bat elsewhere and press fire to send it towards the bricks again. Once you clear all the bricks then it's onto the next level.* [77]* [21]* [2]* [4]* [33]* [17]* [49]* [57]* [22]* [52]
Bouncer	Diamond;Robtek (Incredible Trio)	1987
Demolition	Kingsoft;Anco Software (Amiga Artists)	1987	[33]***A Breakout-Clone The Amiga-Version and the C64-Version are different in several points: Amiga-only: - Shoot flying objects for bonus points - vertical gameplay - scrolling background graphics - blocks are moving down C64-only: - 2 Player mode - horizontal gameplay - Level-Editor - "Boss-Level"
Detonator	Creative Vision	1987
Impact	Audiogenic;Mindscape (Audiogenic)	1987	Trapped - in a 1970s arcade game! Every escape route is blocked by a wall of brightly coloured bricks. Powerfully addictive, Impact has 80 built-in screens, plus 48 more that you can design yourself - as hard, as simple, as much fun as you like. Hidden on each screen are special tokens - collect them if you can. Use them to buy one of nine powerful weapons, or keep the, until the end of the screen to score a bonus. If you thought the fun had gone out of computer games then Impact is the game that'll change your mind!* [77]* [129]* [33]* [22]* [57]* [1]* [49]* [33]***The game was re-released in 1995 with 48 additional levels. This version was also titled "Impact 95".
Mindbreaker	Softgang (Digital Artwork)	1987
Super Brickout	Bit Player Software	1987
Addicta Ball	Alligata	1988	A great new 1 or 2 player arcade classic. Simple for all the family to play with joystick or mouse but so deadly addictive you can't stop playing. You need courage, lightning reflexes, tactical genius and strategic planning to beat the ball but you'll certainly enjoy finding all the hidden features along the way. MULTI-LEVEL SCROLLING GAMEPLAN HEAPS OF FEATURES ADDICTION IS THE AIM ADDICABALL IS THE GAME*** [52]
Ball Raider II	US Action (The Incredible Trio)	1988	Unashamed Breakout/Arkanoid clone. Use your bat to deflect the ball into the coloured bricks. Some bricks hide bonuses, which yield benefits such as an enlarged bat, laser firing ability, or multiplying the number of balls in play. You have 3 lives at the start of the game and you will find they don't last very long, unless your reflexes serve you well.*** [22]
Bank Buster	Methodic Solutions	1988	The only way to break into a well-stocked bank is to head underground, and smash your way through layer after layer of earth. This makes for a game influenced by Breakout, but with many subtleties of its own. You have full control over the bat, able to move up and down as well as left and right. The latter can be useful as only part of the bottom of the screen actually results in the ball going out of play - a wall protects much of the floor. There are inbuilt trees which can't be played through, and dynamite sticks which can clear large sections of earthing at a time.* [142]* [33]*** [22]
Crack	Linel	1988	Swiss developed Arkanoid style game, with a prehistoric theme. Play is for one or two players simultaneously (including a battle-mode), and options are available for mouse and joystick controls. A comprehensive level editor is also included. The players’ bat here is made out to look like a bone, and the ball is a spherical stone. Level backdrops are randomised pixel-painted scenes featuring different types of Dinosaurs. The bricks to knock out sometimes contain pickups to collect, such as a laser gun, an automatic CPU controlled bat navigation mode, extra life, slow-ball etc. A pickup is immediately activated upon collection, but subsequent ones collected are not if one is active, and clicking the right mouse button will cancel out the current effect for the last pickup collected. A bonus coconut game can be enabled from the main menu, which in turn lets you play this sub-game at predefined intervals during the course of standard play, where you control a caveman holding a pan, and the object is to catch coconuts that fall from trees with it, by moving from left to right on the single screen. Your bonus is tallied for how many coconuts you managed to catch in the allotted time.* [21]* [17]* [49]* [57]* [33]* [52]
Crystal Hammer	reLINE Software;Axxiom (reLINE Software)	1988
Giganoid	Swiss Computer Arts	1988
Scrolling Walls	Kingsoft	1988
Starball	Rainbow Arts	1988
The Wall	Rainbow Arts (SoftTouch)	1988
Transputor	Actual Screenshots;CRL (ComTec)	1988
Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh	Imagine	1989	HE'S BACK. HE'S MAD.HE WANTS REVENGE. Eons ago, you battered DOH into an intergalactic pulp and escaped. But a scrap of DOH's core energy survived... And now DOH's hurtling toward you across space and time in the Xorg, a huge spaceship that's crashed into our universe from an unknown dimension. Use your ultra-fast reflexes and intense concentration to get to the core of the Xorg without pounding your ship to interstellar scrap. Or take a break from battle. Create your own force barriers with the Arkanoid Construction Set, the latest in intergalactic dimension-building tools. If you're good enough, you'll get through. And come fact to face with the force of DOH.* [76]* [106]* [76]* [21]* [83]* [85]
Chariots of Wrath	Impressions (Toxic Waste)	1989	While fighting for your King in far off lands, a rival Baron has kidnapped Princess Arthena, your future Queen. On hearing this, enraged, you wearily climb into your trusty chariot to save her and rid your Kingdom of this scourge for evermore. CHARIOTS OF WRATH takes arcade games into the next generation - combining the very best in arcade action with the depth and challenge usually only offered by adventures or strategy games. CHARIOTS OF WRATH gives you more: more action, more destructive weaponry, more variety, more traps, more aliens, more surprises. In short CHARIOTS OF WRATH means quite simply more excitement. The game's many features include:* 6 totally different types of arcade game * many more screens crammed full of amazing graphics * 3-plane interactive parallax scrolling * the biggest and meanest collection of extra weapons ever * end of level guardians who really mean business * full voyage map traces your journey * hoardes of original traps and enemies all out for your blood! * stunning sampled soundtrack and FX * more gruesome, destructive playability than ever! . . . . .THE NEXT GENERATION IN ARCADE ACTION* [7]* [97]* [76]* [22]* [1]* [52]
Hotshot	Addictive Games (Maxwell Technology)	1989	[22]***HOTSHOT is a futuristic sports simulation, in which you must (as usual) beat your opponent. This is done by using your Graviton Gun to attract a deadly plasma ball, and firing it at a variety of pinball-style bumpers and blocks. Press FIRE on your joystick to attract the ball (release it to let it go - you cannot hold the ball too long or it will blow you up), but be careful, if it hits any part of you beside the end of your Graviton Gun, you will be destroyed. Hint: Use your Graviton Gun to affect the flight of the ball. When holding the ball or trying to attract it, the directions of the joystick set the direction the gun points. When not pressing FIRE, you can run (or bounce) left and right by moving the joystick LEFT or RIGHT. Pulling it down will make you duck. There are five characters (seven on 16-bit machines), each with slightly different playing characteristics.
BootOut	author	1990
Escape from Tharkan	CP Verlag	1990
Jail Break	Odyssey	1990
Krypton Egg	Hitsoft	1990	KRYPTON EGG is played using only the mouse. Left click to eject the first ball. You will soon notice that the bricks are not all alike. The striped bricks release "spells". Here are some of them: Glue / Spectre / Slow / Fast / Turbo bat / Leaden ball / Extra ball / Left-right switchover / Double points / Single fire / Double fire / Destructive fire / Multidirectional move / Computer-assisted play / Bat size / Anti-monster shield / Extra lives / Transparent ball / Freeze / etc. Some have 4 levels of force. Use your reflexes to take the ones you want. The aliens on the screen simply deviate the ball. The exception is a nasty fellow called Cyclopus Picus Vulgarus: avoid him! To get through some of the screens, you'll need to spin the ball. With practice you'll soon be able to send it where you like! Once you've battled your way through 10 screens, get ready for a monster! If you can destroy him, the way will be clear for a fresh series of screens. He's a tough brute with six lives!* [1]* [52]
Megaball	author	1991
Rebound	Mental Image Software Design	1991
Snoball in Hell	Atlantis Software (Mind's Eye)	1991
Tecnoball	TLK Games	1991
Breaky	author	1992
Bunny Bricks	Silmarils	1992	Bunny's girlfriend has been kidnapped by an ape, and 30 screens of blocks have been placed between them. Love can't climb all barriers, but a bunny skilled in baseball can smash through them, using his bat to hit each brick on each screen in turn. This sets the scene for a variant on Breakout. The screens contain rows of bricks, some of them indestructible, and lots of doors to open for access to other sections, and dividing lines affecting where the ball can go. Power-ups are released at regular intervals. You need to press fire as the ball approaches to strike it and keep it in play.* [163]* [7]* [23]* [97]*** [37]
Copper	Hai N. Truong	1992
Poing	author	1992
Amiganoid	Digital Illusions	1993
Crystal Hammer '93 Edition	reLINE	1993
Classic Arcadia & Baby Arcadia	Alternative Software (Bizarre)	1994	Include four games, all clones of famous games: * Invasion (Space Invaders clone) * Muncher (Pac-Man clone) * Rebound (Arkanoid clone) * Galaxy (Galaxian clone) Each game has difficulty levels, and three versions: classic (graphically similar to the original game), enhanced and baby. Baby versions are baby-themed and much more easy than the other versions.

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