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A game for the iPhone that plays like a cross between Arkanoid and Space Invaders. The game features 8-bit graphics and sound effects generated by the Commodore 64 sound chip.

An arkanoid clone for the iPhone

DX-Ball 2 is a brick buster game for Microsoft Windows, developed by Longbow Games. As a follow up to DX-Ball by Michael P. Welch, the sequel is foremost remarked by the introduction of its 16-bit high-colour engine, presenting textured bricks and background graphics in vivid colours. The game also features two new Power-Ups, an easy to play "Kid-Mode", and a hotseat multiplayer mode, alongside an original soundtrack by SideWinder. DX-Ball 2 also introduces the feature of board-set selection, allowing the player to select between different sets of boards to play. The free demo thereby comes packed with a total of 24 boards divided into 6 board-sets of 4 boards search. Additional board packs can then be installed for more boards, whereas Board Pack 1 will expand the demo board-sets to 25 boards each, for a total of 150 boards. While a total of five board packs were released for the game, DX-Ball 2 was eventually succeeded by Rival Ball in 2001. A 20th Anniversary edition was announced on August 23rd, 2018 and was released on November 21st, 2018, which features a new high resolution boardset,new power ups,online leaderboard and boardset editor.

Another VIC in the Wall is a simple Breakout variant. The player uses a paddle at the bottom of the screen to reflect a ball that bounces around the screen. The screen is constantly being filled with bricks and the idea is to destroy these by hitting them with the ball. If the ball goes past the paddle the player loses a life. He has three lives in total. The goal is simply to get as many points as possible. There is no end to it as new bricks are continuously added to the screen. The game is written in machine code and can be played with either keyboard or joystick.

"Magipon!" is a puzzle game where the player scores by combining five Magi blocks of the same color. Blocks will not automatically clear once five blocks have been linked. Instead chained blocks can be clear by setting a magic circle on the final block of the chain. Once this final block links with the chain, all the blocks will disappear and be added to your score.

The classic brick game comes back as DSiWare.

Tetroid 2012 is a Tetris clone for the PC.

Batty is a Breakout style game complete with all the mainstay powerups found in a game like Arkanoid, but definitely earned its place as a cult classic. You could also play together with a friend at the same time.