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In October 1976, the annual RePlay chart listed Breakout as the fifth highest-earning arcade video game of 1976 in the United States, below Midway Manufacturing's Sea Wolf, Gun Fight, and Wheels, and Atari's Indy 800. [23] Breakout was later the third highest-earning arcade video game of 1977 in the US, below Sea Wolf and Sprint 2, [24] [25 ...
It is a compilation of three games in one cartridge, all of which were originally released in arcades by Atari, Inc. The games are Breakout (1976), Centipede (1980), and Missile Command (1980). They have significant graphical upgrades over the originals. The visuals in Breakout look more like Arkanoid.(1986).
The Video Pinball brand is a series of first-generation single-player dedicated home video game consoles manufactured, released and marketed by Atari, Inc. starting in 1977. Bumper controllers on the sides or a dial on the front are used to control the games depending on the game selected.
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Super Breakout is a sequel to the 1976 video game Breakout released in arcades in September 1978 by Atari, Inc. [2] It was written by Ed Rotberg. [4] The game uses the same mechanics as Breakout, but allows the selection of three distinct game modes via a knob on the cabinet—two of which involve multiple, simultaneous balls in play. [2]
Breakout 2000 was the first Jaguar project by MP Games, which had previously worked on productivity software for PC and WalZ, a Breakout-style game for Atari ST. Lead programmer Mario Perdue originally developed a Windows 3.1x version of WalZ, which went unreleased due to its similarity with Breakout and fear of lawsuit from Atari. He later ...
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.
Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari for arcades.It is one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work and decided to manufacture the game.