Tonight at a glance
- Platforms
- Arcade
- Mode
- Single player · Multiplayer
- Violence
- Mild
The story
Arkanoid is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. It expanded upon Atari's Breakout games of the 1970s by adding power-ups, different types of bricks, and a variety of level layouts. The title refers to a doomed "mothership" from which the player's ship, the Vaus, escapes.
- Action
- Science fiction
- breakout
- 8-bit
- block-breaking
- floating blocks
- pictographic level design
- cheat code
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
Production
- Rating
- 80 / 100 · 112 players
- Developer
- Taito
- Publisher
- Taito, Romstar
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
