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Being of a certain age, we were hooked by the original Breakout. It’s one of those incredibly B simple-looking games that can become really difficult. As a challenge, we’re going to recreate Breakout, but first let’s describe the gameplay and how subsequent versions added to the original. The player moves a paddle from left to right. This paddle stays in the same vertical position on the screen and is used to ensure a ball can be bounced back up the screen. Above the paddle is an array of bricks. When these bricks are hit by the ball, they disintegrate. A level is completed when all the bricks have been hit by the ball.
It is possible to make the game more difficult by speeding up the ball, making the paddle smaller and requiring some bricks to be hit more than once before they disintegrate.
We spent many hours on an Archimedes A5000 playing This game has the same gameplay as but with extra features, such as being able to collect power-ups that drop from the bricks and give extra powers, such as two balls at once, the paddle being able to fire lasers
