History Main / BreakingOut

* Creator/{{Taito}}'s ''Puchi Carat'' combines basic ball-and-paddle gameplay with a few ''Puzzle Bobble''-like twists.

* The paint brushes lines from ''Videogame/KirbyCanvasCurse'' take on properties that allow for an imitation of breakout when pitted against Kracko and Kracko Jr.

* ''[[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581874 Missilebreak Outvaders]] takes this UpToEleven by combining it with VideoGame/SpaceInvaders and VideoGame/MissileCommand.

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

A subgenre of {{Action Game}}s, often referred to as ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'' clones or ''VideoGame/{{Arkanoid}}'' clones. In Japan, "Block Kuzushi" is the common name for the genre.

In their simplest forms, you control a paddle at the bottom of the screen, which you use to bounce a ball to destroy blocks. If the ball is not bounced back, it goes off the bottom edge of the screen and the player loses a life. Powerups and enemies are common in these games, even though they were absent from the original ''Breakout''.

A subgenre of {{Puzzle Game}}s, often referred to as ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'' clones or ''VideoGame/{{Arkanoid}}'' clones. In Japan, "Block Kuzushi" is the common name for the genre.

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* The various DLC for ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Battle of Aces'' contain a minigame called Bind Breaker, where you use the ball to destroy the blocks that make up the characters' Barrier Jackets, stripping them down to bathing suits. Not for the more conservative of fans.
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* In Creator/WilliamsElectronics' ''Pinball/TheShadow'' pinball, there's a mini-playfield in the upper-left corner called The Battlefield, which plays like this. When activated, the pinball rolls around the field, and the player moves a bat left and right with the flipper buttons to make it hit various targets.
* The Wispy Woods bonus stage in ''VideoGame/KirbysPinballLand'' is a simple ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'' clone.
* ''VideoGame/CrueBall'' has a hidden game where you play ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'' using a flying Flipper Sled against exploding skeletons.
* The ''VideoGame/PinballDeluxe'' table ''BRIX'' is a hybrid of Breakout and pinball, using destroyable bricks instead of pins.
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* ''VideoGame/LyleInCubeSector'' has you fight a boss in this manner.
* In ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'', there is a room where you must do this to open the path to the next room. Missing the ball--in this case Delicious Fruit--doesn't kill you, but it removes a block of the ground that you are standing on, revealing deadly spikes. Once you've cleared a path to the exit, you must then dodge the ball as you make your way out of the room, or else it will kill you.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Vexx}}'', one mini-game in Tempest Peak Manor, the fourth world, has you playing ''Breakout''. ...On a GIANT-screen TV. ...Controlling the joystick by standing on it.
* ''Videogame/JackieChansActionKungFu'', a NES title, ''inverted'' this trope. One of the minigames had a ball-spitting face trying to destroy a block wall Jackie was standing on. The player had to deflect the balls by punching and kicking them, to avoid the complete destruction of the wall.
* The paint brushes lines from ''Videogame/KirbyCanvasCurse'' take on properties that allow for an imitation of breakout when pitted against Kracko and Kracko Jr.
* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' has some levels like this, made by the community in the LevelEditor. Of course, the big draw here isn't that it's a ''Breakout'' clone, it's that it's a ''Breakout'' clone ''made with the in-game tools.''
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* ''[[VideoGame/BitTrip BIT.TRIP BEAT]]'' uses it for a level boss.
** ''BIT.TRIP FLUX'' combines it with Pong for another boss.

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* One level of ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'' contains this as a minigame.
* Bowser's special move using his koopa minions in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' is a breakout minigame.
** The Luiginary Wall attack in VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam is a breakout style mini game, with the version used in Battle Broque Madame (the second mini game test section) being one with power ups, a score up to 999 and various other things.

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* ''VideoGame/TouhouReiidenHighlyResponsiveToPrayers'' plays like a very strange hybrid of ''Breakout'' and a {{danmaku}} shoot 'em up. For one thing, the ball can safely touch the floor (it just resets your score gain), but touching it directly will kill Reimu. She need to perform actions like swinging her ''gohei'' or throwing talismans to actually swat the ball away. Next, some levels have indestructictible turrets that shoot at you, and at higher difficulties even the blocks shoot bullets when destroyed. Finally, every 5 levels there's a BossBattle where Reimu needs to direct the ball to hit them while dodging all the bullets they shoot.
* The MCP Cone sequence in the ''VideoGame/{{TRON}}'' arcade game is ''Breakout'' done as a shoot-em-up.
** ''Squeeze Box'' for the UsefulNotes/Atari2600 has this play mechanic for the entire game.

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* The BonusDungeon of ''VideoGame/ZanyGolf'' includes a ''Breakout'' scenario.

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* The programming puzzle site ''Website/AdventOfCode'' has puzzle [[https://adventofcode.com/2019/day/13 2019-13]] where you must use the Intcode interpreter (built as part of previous puzzles) to simulate a Breakout style game and automate it so you break all the blocks.
* FMV game ''Snow Job'' features a ''Breakout'' minigame that entails gradually uncovering [[{{Fanservice}} a picture of a scantily-clad lady]], as well as loud sound effects.
* ''VideoGame/IdleBreakout'' is a hybrid of IdleGame and breaking blocks, also on a far grander scale since with tens or even hundreds of balls bouncing around.

* The ''Ricochet'' series, beginning with ''Xtreme'', then ''Lost Worlds'' and ''Infinity''. The latter two are known for their complex {{Level Editor}}s.

* 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 [[ShockingSwerve 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.

* Creator/{{Activision}}'s ''{{VideoGame/Oink}}!'' for the Atari 2600 reverses this, as you try to stop the Big Bad Wolf from using his breath to knock holes in your wall big enough to come after your [[Literature/ThreeLittlePigs three little pigs]].

** ''Diamonds'' had no paddle and 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.

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

* ''VideoGame/TouhouReiidenHighlyResponsiveToPrayers'' plays like a very strange hybrid of ''Breakout'' and a {{danmaku}} shoot 'em up. For one thing, you have to swat the ball away from Reimu, or else it will kill her...

* FMV game ''Snow Job'' features a ''Breakout'' minigame that entails gradually uncovering [[FanService a picture of a scantily-clad lady]], as well as [[MostAnnoyingSound obnoxiously loud sound effects]].

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* [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness The very first]] ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' game, ''Highly Responsive To Prayers'' on the UsefulNotes/PC98, plays like a very strange hybrid of ''Breakout'' and a {{danmaku}} shoot 'em up. For one thing, you have to swat the ball away from Reimu, or else it will kill her...
* The MCP Cone sequence in the ''{{VideoGame/TRON}}'' arcade game is ''Breakout'' done as a shoot-em-up.
** ''Squeeze Box'' for the UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} has this play mechanic for the entire game.

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* The PuttPutt series spin-off ''PuttPutt and Pep's Balloon-o-Rama'', which has you bouncing Pep into the air to pop all the balloons before moving onto the next level.

* [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness The very first]] ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' game, ''Highly Responsive To Prayers'' on the [[{{PC98}} PC-98]], plays like a very strange hybrid of ''Breakout'' and a {{danmaku}} shoot 'em up. For one thing, you have to swat the ball away from Reimu, or else it will kill her...

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

Not to be confused with Music/TheProtomen song with the same trope name.

* The ''[[VideoGame/BricksOfSeries/Bricks Of]]'' series, in which brick-breaking comes in underwater, Egyptian or medieval flavour.