- 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.
- Altoona, Washington (Wikipedia)
Altoona is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wahkiakum County, Washington, approximately 27 miles northwest of the town of Cathlamet. As of the 2020 census, Altoona had a population of 56. The CDP includes the communities of Carlson Landing and Dahlia.