Let’s Play Alleyway #04: Mistakes Add Up

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Alleyway (1989)
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You’d think that with how small the playfield is, there wouldn’t be many different layouts of blocks in this game, but that’s where you’re wrong. Mathematics alone states that there are countless different arrangements, though many of them would differ from one another only by a few blocks. The ones picked for this game have followed a gentle difficulty curve, slowly adding more elements of challenge and little things designed to catch you off-guard and cost you lives.

If there’s one thing I have noticed in this game, it’s that the way I lose most of my lives is through my own inaction rather than the game’s action, for the game has no actual agency; if you never set the ball in play, there’s no way for you to lose lives and the path the ball takes is entirely determined by the angle you bounce it at. This means that every life I’ve lost so far has been because of me but that’s par for the course for most games I play. The problem is that I’m starting to run really low on the lives and the difficulty isn’t letting up, making me wonder if I’ll actually see the end of the game or not. To get this far and fall at the final hurdle would be regrettable but sometimes that’s just the way things go but as long as I have one life left, I have a chance.

Let’s try not to waste it.

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