- Breakout Style Games on CP/M (techtinkering.com)
Breakout style video games were pretty popular at one time both at Arcades and on home computers. The games are based on a simple concept where you have to destroy a group of ‘bricks’ at the top of the screen by bouncing a ball off a paddle at the bottom of the screen. This paddle can be moved left or right to meet the ball. According to Wikipedia, Breakout was released in 1976 by Atari, Inc. I have found two versions for CP/M which are both quite playable.
- Breakout (video game) (Wikipedia)
Breakout is a 1976 action video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades; in Japan, it was released by Namco. The game was designed by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow and prototyped via discrete logic chips by Steve Wozniak with assistance from Steve Jobs. In the game, eight rows of bricks line the top portion of the screen, and the player’s goal is to destroy the bricks by repeatedly bouncing a ball off a paddle into them. The concept was predated by Ramtek’s Clean Sweep (1974), but the game’s designers were influenced by Atari’s own Pong (1972). The arcade version of Breakout uses a monochrome display underneath a translucent colored overlay.
