Will Shanklin has been writing about gadgets, tech and their impact on humanity since 2011. Before joining Engadget, he spent five years creating and leading the mobile technology section for New Atlas. His work has also appeared on SlashGear, TechRadar, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Android Central, HuffPost and others.
is back. The upcoming version of the simple 1976 brick-smashing hit rotates the playing field by 90 degrees and adds auto-scrolling, neon effects, power-ups and local co-op. In other words,was a product of dramatically more limited 1970s hardware, but its simplicity was part of its magic.
Rows of bricks sat up top, a player-controlled paddle lived down below and a “ball” bounced in between. Move paddle, hit ball, smash bricks, wow bellbottom-wearing arcadegoers.. But the game’s landscape perspective, while better suited for today’s televisions and monitors, may be hard for old-school gamers to get used to. Ditto for auto-scrolling, as this version pans left-to-right toward a goal rather than simply requiring you to break all the bricks on a fixed screen.Visually, the new version’s ball is more like a comet, with a long neon tail trailing off behind its round head. Seizure-inducing effects abound. And there are multiple balls to contend with, not just one. .will arrive on PC, Switch, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One, PlayStation 5/4 and Atari’s rebooted VCS console on March 25. It costs $15, but there's a 10 percent discount if you
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