History Main / BreakingOut

** Indeed much like the UsefulNotes/MacOS easter egg below, these mainly came about because of Steve Jobs' love of ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'' so legend goes. For the latter day scroll-wheel color iPods, Apple even made their own clone with a few circle based tweaks called Vortex.
* An EasterEgg in UsefulNotes/MacOS 7.5 allows you to play a version of this, with the developers' names printed on the blocks.

* The UsefulNotes/Commodore64 had ''Krakout'', remembered fondly for its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8sET07lKzA addictive gameplay and incredible music]], and not so fondly for [[NintendoHard the most dastardly]] ArchEnemy in video game history. On later levels, an [[NotSoHarmlessVillain unassuming]] [[HappyFunBall blue ball]] would appear (behind walls of bricks, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCWNvqFZeFk see video]] from 8:40) which tried to match your ball's height on the screen. [[spoiler:If you allowed them to touch, the blue ball would swallow your ball whole, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath digest it]], and [[BeatingADeadPlayer spit its dessicated corpse]] back at you. Even if you manage to intercept the mangled remains with your paddle, it just flies past. This creature from the darkest pits of the lowest hells was named The Cannibal.]] Somehow, losing the ball off the side of the screen was no longer the worst thing that could happen.
* ''VideoGame/BadOmen'' (a.k.a. ''Devilish'') for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis.
* The UsefulNotes/{{Macintosh}} was host to several {{Freeware}} and {{Shareware}} twists on the game:

** ''Diamonds'' and its spinoff ''Diamonds for Kids'' had no paddle and only direct control of the ball's horizontal motion, but it could only destroy bricks of the same color it was. The ''VideoGame/{{Action52}}'' UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis ripoff ''Bonkers'' copied this concept.

* ''Videogame/AlphaBounce'', another clone with RPG elements, and JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE, is an [[http://www.alphabounce.com online version]]. It has been ported to UsefulNotes/DSiWare, with some changes and further elaboration.

* ''Alleyway'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy, developed by none other than Nintendo themselves.

* Creator/{{Exidy}}'s arcade game ''VideoGame/{{Circus}}'' (and its UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} adaptation ''Circus Atari''), in which you bounce around a pair of acrobats to pop three rows of balloons in the air.
* The black-and-white UsefulNotes/AtariST game ''Bolo'' (not to be confused with several SimilarlyNamedWorks) gives the player full control over two axes of paddle movement. However, it also has some blocks which release enemies that kill the ball on contact.

* ''Thro' The Wall'', on the Horizons demo tape that came with the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum and thus the first game many owners of the Spectrum ever played.

** ''Squeeze Box'' for the UsefulNotes/Atari2600 has this play mechanic for the entire game.