Carom your ball off buildings and strange creatures to capture prizes and move through new levels. This game also features a 3-D world with power-ups, new ball types, and interactive elements. Youll blast through bricks, blocks, barricades, and other bizarre barriers in both single and multiplayer modes-up to four players via the separately sold Multi Tap. Now on the PlayStation, Breakout sports a refined look but still has that simple, absorbing gameplay. You would eventually progress to thicker, more complex walls, more capricious balls, and shrinking paddles until you finally lost your last rebound.
By moving a paddle from side to side to volley a ball back and forth, the object was to chip away at the wall in front of you one brick at a time. Handball in a prison yard? In the early 1980s, Atari took this abstract concept and turned it into one of the most addictive video games of its time.
