Arkanoid-style Breakout clone, which unlike most other similar games has the bat on the side of the screen (there is a left/right option) instead of at the bottom.
There are a number of types of special bricks, but unlike e.g. Arkanoid, they do not fall towards the bat. Instead, when you hit a special brick, it flips to show a letter. E.g. E (Extend bat), C (Catch ball), M (Missile), B (Bomb, explodes when hit by ball, clearing a number of bricks) and X (Extra life).
The enemies/obstacles are more varied than in Arkanoid. Some make the bat freeze, some actually chew and eat your ball and spit out the core back at you!
Time played does not include hundreds of hours on the Commodore 64.
I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw Krakout on Steam. While Pixel Games UK has been re-releasing old 8-bit Gremlin Graphics games for a while, most of their library wasn't really to my taste. But here it is, a top ten C64 game and maybe a top ten game for me.
And yes, the C64...
my favorite breakout, c64 or otherwise, with excellent music by ben daglish. had to play with unlimited balls as a kid and I definitely didn't get any better over the decades.
This is one of my favorite computer games for the Commodore 64 in the 1980's. The graphics are really outdated now, but I still enjoy playing it.
Man, I love myself some Arkanoid but as it is not available on steam so far Krakout is the next best thing.
A breakout clone with a 90-degree twist, I remember playing it back in the 80s and really enjoying it back then, I enjoyed playing it now as well.
If you never played breakout or a clone, give this one a try, it's basically next level pong gameplay,...
