History YMMV / Arkanoid

** In pretty much every ''Arkanoid'' game, the final boss is the easiest level in the game. They take only a few hits and their attacks are easily avoided.

* ScrappyMechanic: Gold bricks. Indestructible gold bricks.

* ThatOneLevel: Missions involving mostly gold bricks tend to be this. An entire mass of them with only a few, or even a single, destructable brick is a common sight in later levels.
** Round 3 in the original game deserves special mention, given how early it appears; It features three horizontal rows of gold blocks that the ball has to snake its way through, which pretty much turns the level into a LuckBasedMission, since the multiball is the only powerup that can reliably help you, and only when the ball is already deep into the passageway.

** ThatOneBoss: [=DoH=]. Colliding with his projectiles will destroy your Vaus, and [[PointOfNoContinues you can no longer use continues once you reach him in the Arcade version of the original Arkanoid]]!

** In pretty much every game, the final boss is the easiest level in the game. They take only a few hits and their attacks are easily avoided.

* HilariousInHindsight: The very title of ''Arkanoid II: The Revenge of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons DoH]]''.

** ThatOneBoss: [=DoH=]. Colliding with his projectiles will destroy your Vaus, and [[PointOfNoContinues you can no longer use continues once you reach him in the Arcade version of the original Arkanoid]].

** ThatOneBoss: [=DoH=]. Colliding with his projectiles will destroy you, and [[PointOfNoContinues you can no longer use continues once you reach him in the Arcade version of the original Arkanoid]].

** ThatOneBoss: [=DoH=]. Colliding with his projectiles will destroy you, and [[PointOfNoContinues you can no longer use continues once you reach him in the Arcade version of the first title]].

** ThatOneBoss: [=DoH=]. Once you reach it in the original ''Arkanoid'', [[PointOfNoContinues you can no longer use continues]].

* ThatOneLevel: Missions involving mostly gold bricks tend to be this. An entire mass of them with only a few, or even a single, destructable brick is a common sight in later levels.

** Depends on the level, so there's luck involved, but certain powerups can be this way. This is especially the case in the objective-based quests on the DS version - if the objective is to destroy a certain brick, or all of a certain color, and a Laser comes along then a level that takes a couple of minutes to win normally can be ended in ten seconds. Lasers and the megaball are almost always examples actually on any level that lacks gold bricks.

* ScrappyMechanic: Gold bricks. Indestructible gold bricks.

* EarWorm: Due to the way the tracks on the DS version were composed, potentially any of them could be this depending on music tastes, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrrV9HVDMNY this being one example]].

* EarWorm: Due to the way the tracks on the DS version were composed, potentially any of them could be this depending on music tastes, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrrV9HVDMNY this being one example]]

* HilariousInHindsight: The very title of Arkanoid II: The Revenge of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons DoH]].

* GameBreaker: Depends on the level, so there's luck involved, but certain powerups can be this way. This is especially the case in the objective-based quests on the DS version - if the objective is to destroy a certain brick, or all of a certain color, and a Laser comes along then a level that takes a couple of minutes to win normally can be ended in ten seconds. Lasers and the megaball are almost always examples actually on any level that lacks gold bricks.

** ''Arkanoid II: The Revenge of [=DoH=]'' shows why MutuallyExclusivePowerups are in effect - power-ups were divided into "affects the ball" and "affects the Vaus" effects, and one of each could be active, making levels much easier when Dispersion or Megaball was active at the same time as Catch or Laser. On top of that, one of the effects possible from the shining capsule was to create a double-strength Dispersion (16 balls instead of 8) that also were Megaballs. If that came up, a player would almost have to intentionally try to lose the level.

* GameBreaker: Depends on the level, so there's luck involved, but certain powerups can be this way. This is especially the case in the objective-based quests on the DS version - if the objective is to destroy a certain brick, or all of a certain colour, and a Laser comes along then a level that takes a couple of minutes to win normally can be ended in ten seconds. Lasers and the megaball are almost always examples actually on any level that lacks gold bricks.