![]() They were just chipsets that projected shapes on the screen. Back then games being developed were limited by the capabilities of the chipsets. One of the oldest video game developers is Atari. The name of this company was such a household name that here in Turkey we would call arcades “Atari Halls”. ![]() The antique video game Breakout that Atari developed in 1976 is a simple yet important game. It’s released as an improved version of Atari’s first game Pong. (The game where you play table tennis with two on screen rectangles.) The game is the brainchild of Atari’s founder Nolan Bushnell. The first Breakout game symbolizes a prisoner breaking the walls with the shackles on his feet and was originally developed by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs for an arcade machine. This black and white game that was colorized with the help of cellophane would be an inspiration for the new games with its software, controls, and chipset design. Super Breakout, the successor to Breakout, was released as a game that was as plain and simple as possible in 1978. It had clever and innovative features such as the multiple balls mode which increased the number of interactable objects on the screen. It had its place as a favorite in arcade centers in the first half of 1980’s. With the developments in the digital field Breakout was losing popularity. So Taito made a new Breakout clone for arcade centers called Arkanoid. In Arkanoid, a highly sophisticated game compared to Breakout, the player was controlling a capsule called Vaus that fled from a monster in space. There were many innovations everywhere in the game resulting in a significantly higher overall quality. The game was later emulated to C64 and Amiga, which made it even more popular by entering homes. It was the first video game that had balls that changed their direction when they are hit and power-ups dropping from above. It had power-ups such as extend bar, double ball, shooting, and the level-skipper.
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