It's a heaviest hitter in the 1978 VCS lineup in this video. Breakout was a major hit in arcades for Atari, and the official home version is no different. Not only do we talk about the different options added into the home port in this video, but we dig into the surprisingly murky history of the arcade game's development and origins! For a game about hitting bricks with a ball and paddle, Breakout has quite a legacy.
Edit: Too late to change the video, but I did misspeak - Namco did not work directly with the Yazuka to clone Breakout, but mob-built clones of the game did push them to begin counterfeiting their own copies to flood the market, rather than wait for Atari to ship the machines overseas.
Special thanks to Alex Smith (of the They Create Worlds podcast) and Ethan Johnson (of the History of How We Play blog) for helping dig out the arcade origins of Breakout.
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Note: I learned after the fact that this game came out around October 1978.
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