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eliminate them. If the player's paddle misses the ball's rebound, they will lose a turn. The player has three turns to try to clear two screens of bricks. Yellow bricks earn one point each, green bricks earn three points, orange bricks earn five points and the top-level red bricks score seven points each. The paddle shrinks to one-half its size after the ball has broken through the red row and hit the upper wall. Ball speed increases at specific intervals: after four hits, after twelve hits, and after making contact with the orange and red rows.
492:, had designed a version of Pong that used about 30 chips. Jobs had little specialized knowledge of circuit board design but knew Wozniak was capable of producing designs with a small number of chips. He convinced Wozniak to work with him, promising to split the fee evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Wozniak had no sketches and instead interpreted the game from its description. To save parts, he had "tricky little designs". Near the end of development, Wozniak considered moving the
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provided. However, a secret way to score beyond the 896 maximum is to play the game in two-player mode. If "Player One" completes the first screen on their third and last ball, then immediately and deliberately allows the ball to "drain", Player One's second screen is transferred to "Player Two" as a third screen, allowing Player Two to score a maximum of 1,344 points if they are adept enough to keep the third ball in play that long. Once the third screen is eliminated, the game is over.
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to the screen's top, but Jobs claimed
Bushnell wanted it at the bottom; Wozniak was unaware of any truth to his claims. The original deadline was met after Wozniak worked at Atari four nights straight, doing some additional designs while at his day job at Hewlett-Packard. This equated to a bonus of
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begins with eight rows of bricks, with two rows each of a different color. The color order from the bottom up is yellow, green, orange and red. Using a single ball, the player must knock down as many bricks as possible by using the walls and/or the paddle below to hit the ball against the bricks and
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featured artwork that revealed the game's plot to be that of a prison escape. According to this release, the player is actually playing as one of a prison's inmates attempting to knock a ball and chain into a wall of their prison cell with a mallet. If the player successfully destroys the wall
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Atari was unable to use
Wozniak's design. By designing the board with as few chips as possible, he made the design difficult to manufacture; it was too compact and complicated to be feasible with Atari's manufacturing methods. However, Wozniak claims Atari could not understand the design and
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speculates "maybe some engineer there was trying to make some kind of modification to it". Atari ended up designing their own version for production, which contained about 100 TTL chips. Wozniak found the gameplay to be the same as his original creation and could not find any differences.
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into a single player game, where the player would use a paddle to maintain a ball that depletes a wall of bricks. Bushnell was certain the game would be popular, and he and
Bristow partnered to produce a concept.
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in 1974. In that game, the player uses a paddle to hit a ball up towards a playfield of dots, which disappear as the ball moves through the dots; the goal is to achieve a clean sweep by erasing all the dots.
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for Atari. I had designed it in hardware. I wanted to write it in software now". This included his design of color graphics circuitry, the addition of game paddle support and sound, and graphics commands in
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and tester. Wozniak's original design used 42 chips; the final, working breadboard he and Jobs delivered to Atari used 44, but
Wozniak said: "We were so tired we couldn't cut it down".
276:, a layer of bricks lines the top third of the screen and the goal is to destroy them all by repeatedly bouncing a ball off a paddle into them. The arcade game was released in Japan by
953:—totally written in BASIC. It seemed like a huge step to me. After designing hardware arcade games, I knew that being able to program them in BASIC was going to change the world.
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Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas
Edition (1971-2005)
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subsidiary. Atari produced innovative video games using the
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and Steve
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1979:(Complete Guide to Consoles): 46–77. 16 October 1989.
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in-game, their inmate escapes with others following.
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2183:10 Fascinating Facts You Didn't Know About Apple
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1665:Classic Gaming: A Complete History of Breakout
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2159:"Consumer Electronics Review: Apple iPod"
1512:"The Apple Story / Part 1: Early History"
1172:accessible by typing "atari breakout" in
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988:The success of the game resulted in
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639:was later the third highest-earning
418:was one of the top ten best-selling
3010:Honors and awards for Steve Wozniak
1596:The Ultimate History of Video Games
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1333:Kyle Orland (February 25, 2015). "
675:was also a commercial success for
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1716:"Phosphor-Dot Fossils: Breakout"
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1952:"The Agony & The Ecstasy".
1443:Ultimate History of Video Games
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388:The original arcade cabinet of
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1294:United States Copyright Office
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2027:Wozniak, Steve (2014-05-01).
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1943:Cartridge Sales Since 1980
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286:arcade video games of 1976
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3262:Video games set in prison
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1701:Atari Games Corp. v. Oman
1685:Atari Games Corp. v. Oman
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1381:Hunter, William (2015).
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775:as the fourth greatest
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3181:Homebrew Computer Club
3110:Dancing with the Stars
2367:Atari Flashback series
2303:Arcade's Greatest Hits
2052:"Nishikado-San Speaks"
1968:"Complete Games Guide"
1915:"Video Games Star War"
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1873:Amusement Press, Inc.
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2324:Retro Atari Classics
1824:"Production Numbers"
1776:"Top Arcade Games".
1478:Simon & Schuster
829:improve this article
609:Midway Manufacturing
554:was written for the
461:was assigned as the
3127:The Big Bang Theory
2951:Acquicor Technology
2331:Atari Greatest Hits
2121:. January 24, 2022.
1074:Breakout: Recharged
1067:Breakout: Recharged
1060:Intellivision Amico
580:console includes a
513:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
3247:Namco arcade games
3232:Atari arcade games
3222:Arcade video games
3135:John Wants Answers
2137:The New York Times
1920:The New York Times
1670:2014-06-23 at the
1600:Three Rivers Press
1315:Hahn, Duane Alan.
1034:Hasbro Interactive
966:Tomohiro Nishikado
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1859:"本紙アンケー 〜 ト調査の結果"
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1491:978-1-4516-4853-9
1423:978-0-9643848-1-1
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1038:Atari Interactive
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3191:Segway polo
3171:(1984 book)
2926:US Festival
2718:Triple Hunt
2665:Stunt Cycle
2570:Jet Fighter
2549:Doctor Pong
2338:Atari Vault
2101:PR Newswire
2057:Retro Gamer
1947:Atari Corp.
1168:version of
1164:released a
1157:to appear.
1141:Easter eggs
1030:PlayStation
722:arcade game
657:in the US.
565:trademarked
416:Clean Sweep
407:Clean Sweep
397:Development
305:Clean Sweep
252:Atari, Inc.
148:Platform(s)
103:Designer(s)
83:Atari, Inc.
59:Atari, Inc.
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3067:Steve Jobs
2959:Apple Inc.
2789:Basketball
2750:Fire Truck
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2584:Shark Jaws
2478:Space Race
2169:2012-12-26
2081:7 February
1844:2013-05-13
1779:Play Meter
1747:2018-05-08
1726:2016-06-20
1630:2018-05-08
1624:"Breakout"
1548:2016-06-20
1522:23 October
1480:. p.
1473:Steve Jobs
1367:2013-05-13
1249:2017-08-30
1184:References
1151:Easter egg
1045:Atari S.A.
899:'s arcade
841:April 2017
728:, Namco's
556:Atari 2600
532:cellophane
494:high score
471:Steve Jobs
337:Atari 5200
201:Atari 2600
157:Atari 2600
139:Atari 2600
124:Steve Jobs
3186:Phreaking
2994:(founder)
2986:(founder)
2970:(founder)
2944:Companies
2894:CL 9 CORE
2871:II series
2782:Asteroids
2757:Sky Diver
2743:Avalanche
2711:Super Bug
2690:Destroyer
2651:Quiz Show
2143:April 26,
2031:. Gizmodo
1602:, 2001.
1102:Atari VCS
1043:In 2011,
961:influence
935:Brick Out
788:Asteroids
765:In 2021,
756:In 1989,
692:Ball Park
620:Gun Fight
591:Reception
459:Al Alcorn
442:Kee Games
294:Atari VCS
3161:Blue box
3137:season 4
3112:season 8
3101:season 4
3090:season 1
2883:Breakout
2867:Apple II
2658:Sprint 2
2609:Breakout
2563:Indy 800
2345:Atari 50
2257:Breakout
2241:Breakout
1887:"結果ベスト3"
1668:Archived
1575:, 2006.
1470:(2011).
1440:(2001).
1410:(2005).
1273:22 March
1178:breakout
1170:Breakout
1155:Breakout
1131:Breakout
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1049:Breakout
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1022:Breakout
1013:for the
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970:Breakout
951:Breakout
945:—at the
943:Breakout
926:Breakout
922:Apple II
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886:Breakout
877:Arkanoid
874:'s 1986
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864:Breakout
782:Galaxian
779:, below
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751:Breakout
744:Breakout
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645:Sea Wolf
637:Breakout
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2899:Disk II
2862:Apple I
2697:Dominos
2577:Pursuit
2510:Rebound
2355:Related
2119:Gematsu
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1149:had an
771:listed
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232:Mode(s)
163:Release
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3115:(2009)
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3093:(2007)
3071:(2015)
3061:(2013)
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2630:LeMans
2623:Indy 4
2556:Hi-way
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411:Ramtek
313:clones
301:Ramtek
246:is an
226:Action
167:Arcade
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