History VideoGame / Arkanoid

* AttractMode: The UsefulNotes/{{NES}} version has a bug where you can continue from this and skip ahead several levels.

* BossButton: The UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh port of the game has one that brings up a fake correspondence, which, at one point, refers to "Arkaholics Anonymous".

* HitboxDissonance: The last level is the only one where you can lose a life other than by dropping the ball: The FinalBoss is lobbing projectiles at you. In the UsefulNotes/AmstradCPC version, said projectiles have a hitbox ''much'' bigger than they appear.

* {{Engrish}}: The opening and ending.

* EveryTenThousandPoints: By default, you get your first two extra lives at 20,000 and 60,000 points, and then you get each subsequent extra life for every 60,000 points afterwards in the Arcade version of the original ''Arkanoid''. This was changed to 100,000 points, 200,000 points, and for every 200,000 points thereafter in ''Revenge of [=DoH=]''.

* PoisonMushroom: The Reduce {{powerup}}, which shrinks the Vaus. For expert players, this is CursedWithAwesome, since you then get [[ScoringPoints doubled points]] as long as it's active, and [[EveryTenThousandPoints extra lives are available at certain point plateaus]]. However, for less expert players, and any player who sees one rolling down right where the ball is about to fall, it clearly is detrimental. On top of that, it is almost identical visually to [[OneUp the Player]] capsule.

* BossButton: The UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh port of the game had one that brought up a fake correspondence, which, at one point, refers to "Arkaholics Anonymous".

* BreakingOut: The TropeCodifier.

* EscapePod: The Vaus that the player pilots.

* InvincibilityPowerup: The Mega Ball. For one, it could plow through the black sphere enemies. More importantly, it instantly plows through ''any'' brick - even gold and silver bricks. The only things it would bounce off are the walls and the Vaus. However in all games starting from ''[=DoH=] it Again'', it would receive a {{Nerf}} to where it can no longer destroy gold bricks.

* PoisonMushroom: The Reduce {{powerup}}, which would shrink the Vaus. For expert players, this could be CursedWithAwesome, since you'd get [[ScoringPoints doubled points]] as long as it's active, and [[EveryTenThousandPoints extra lives are available at certain point plateaus]]. However, for less expert players, and any player who sees one rolling down right where the ball is about to fall, it clearly is detrimental. On top of that, it was almost identical visually to [[OneUp the Player]] capsule.

** The Twin powerup in ''Arkanoid: Revenge of [=DoH=]''. The Vaus would split into two smaller copies that would move together. It only barely increased the surface area of the Vaus, was distinctly smaller than both the Extend powerup or the Image/Illusion powerup, and there was a gap between the two Vaus units that the ball could fall through, costing a life.

* WarpZone: The Break powerup opens up the path to the next level (or levels, in later installments). However, unlike a proper level clear, it does ''not'' cause the ball to vanish, so a player hoping to take the warp can still lose a life if the ball drops out of the play field before the Vaus can get to it (oh, and for insult on the injury, if the player fails to make it, the Warp Zone closes upon the start of the next life).

* WordPureeTitle

* EenieMeenieMinyMoai: [=DoH=] is a giant virtual Moai head.

* OneHundredPercentCompletion: The DS version has this.
* OneUp: The Player capsule. Technically counted as a powerup, which means that MutuallyExclusivePowerups came into play.

Several sequels were made, such as ''Arkanoid: [[RevengeOfTheSequel Revenge of Doh]]'', ''Arkanoid: [[PunBasedTitle Doh It Again]]'', ''Arkanoid Returns'', ''Arkanoid DS'' and ''Arkanoid Live''.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Your reward for finishing each of the 7 main clear mode trees for the first time in ''Arkanoid DS'' is another skin for the Vaus.

--> Original opening sequence

->[[ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway The era and time of this story is unknown.]]\\

''Arkanoid'' is a 1986 {{Puzzle Game}} by Creator/{{Taito}}. It is very similar to ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'', with the addition of powerups, enemies, multi-hit and indestructible blocks, distinct levels, and a boss at the end. [[FollowTheLeader These elements were quickly adopted by similar games.]]

''Arkanoid'' is a 1986 {{puzzle game}} by Creator/{{Taito}}. It is very similar to ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'', with the addition of powerups, enemies, multi-hit and indestructible blocks, distinct levels, and a boss at the end. [[FollowTheLeader These elements were quickly adopted by similar games.]]

* AttractMode: The NES version has a bug where you can continue from this and skip ahead several levels.

* BigBad: [=DoH=], or Dominate Over Hour, is the RealityWarper that attacks the titular mothership and goes after the Vaus spacecraft. In ''Revenge of [=DoH=]'', it takes over the Xorg spaceship to get revenge, and in ''[=DoH=] It Again'', it lures the Arkanoid with a fake planet to destroy Vaus.

** The Twin powerup in ''Arkanoid II: The Revenge of [=DoH=]''. The Vaus would split into two smaller copies that would move together. It only barely increased the surface area of the Vaus, was distinctly smaller than both the Extend powerup or the Image/Illusion powerup, and there was a gap between the two Vaus units that the ball could fall through, costing a life.

* BreakingOut: The {{Trope Codifier}}.

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