- 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.
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think that this to be the normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
Douglas Adams in The Scientific Indian Science Fiction Anthology