Krakout for the BBC Micro

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Published on August 12, 2018 1:20:30 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMPamVLDRc8

Game:

Krakout (1987)

Duration: 8:50

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Came also out for:

Amstrad CPC
Commodore 64
MSX
Thomson MO
Thomson TO
ZX Spectrum


Game description:

Arkanoid-style Breakout clone, which unlike most other similar games has the bat on the side of the screen (there is a left/right option) instead of at the bottom. There are 100 screens to be conquered.

There are a number of types of special bricks, but unlike e.g. Arkanoid, they do not fall towards the bat. Instead, when you hit a special brick, it flips to show a letter. E.g. E (Extend bat), C (Catch ball), M (Missile), B (Bomb, explodes when hit by ball, clearing a number of bricks) and X (Extra life). Extra lives are also awarded when the player scores 10,000 points.

The enemies/obstacles are more varied than in Arkanoid. Some make the bat freeze, some actually chew and eat your ball and spit out the core back at you!