best/worst arkanoid clones...?
personally I always liked Krakout better than Arkanoid itself. really addictive, fun to play.
never really got the hype about Batty...decent conversion but too difficult IMO. screen being the same colour as the ball doesn't help. most people seem to think this is the best Arkanoid type game from what I've read.
there were a few awful ones though, like Impact!...
any others worth mentioning?
never really got the hype about Batty...decent conversion but too difficult IMO. screen being the same colour as the ball doesn't help. most people seem to think this is the best Arkanoid type game from what I've read.
there were a few awful ones though, like Impact!...
any others worth mentioning?
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Necros.
Regarding the worst clone I know must be my own game in basic, from around 1986. Never "released". :smile:
Screenshot
...colour combination in your game is much better, than in Arkanoid-2 :)
Although I've only ever played the C64 version, which I got free on a cover tape some time ago.
Here's an interesting clip for krakout fans, one of my favourites:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04F4grZ9Mk
I agree with cichlasoma* that Thru The Wall is easily the best game in this genre;) It has all the right basic qualities.:-)
*admittedly this is possibly not actually cichlasoma's view in that he has not as yet expressed it as such
Ever tried playing as both players yourself?
Yep - rather fun!
whoever said its technically Breakout clones, not Arkanoid, I was thinking it might be, wasnt sure...
Actually, that reminds me of another one - Traz (Transformable Arcade Zone). Again, I've never really played it so I'm not sure if it's any good.
Necros.
I had a go on Ricochet as well, thats quite good. I like the way you can move around the screen but it makes it complicated and I kept killing myself getting the ball trapped underneath the bat, lol.
playing it now, its ridiculously hard. every screen seems different, like sometimes its horizontal then vertical, sometimes youve got 2 bats, then one. interesting the way they've done it, though.
Arkanoid
Arkanoid 2 (would have been great but had awful backgrounds)
Hotshot
in that order
Necros.
http://www.oldschool-gaming.com/view_review.php?rev=spectrum_ragnablock
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Yes, that's a real killer, the more you play it, the more you learn to anticipate that problem, and (hopefully) try to avoid it, although sometimes it's almost impossible.
A good tip for that game if you wan't to give yourself a better chance of seeing the higher levels is to always go right for the "-" powerup, and always avoid the "+" powerups, trying to only have no more than one ball in play at any time. I also try get all the other powerups as quickly as possible to build the "floor".
Another good tip is to nearly fill the floor up, and then grab the "double bat" powerup, and move the bats over the remaining floor gaps at the edge of the screen. If you are lucky, you can then finish the level without having to even move your bats again.
Also, the intro scroller is mildly amusing, if you can be bothered to read it all, and the intro "music" is absolutely bonkers!
All around it's a unique game, that I often find myself loading up when I'm really bored. I still haven't completed it, although I've got really far, but I'll never allow myself to use snapshots.
I only got into it because I once had a spectrum 48 with faulty RAM, and ricochet was one of the few games that didn't seem to use the affected area (most of my other games during that period either crashed, or had corrupted sprite data).
Necros.
Your clone looks so much better than mine. (Invisible breakout) also not released! :D :D No screenshot mind, but as you can imagine, it was just a black screen with a white line and a ball. Boooorrring!
LOL .. when I saw 'plonker on the net' I thought you meant me! heheheh. I liked it though I had a couple of reservations in my review [in TRB]
1 - no power ups; by tradition most bat n ball games have had them and this one doesn't really have them
2 - the skulls & collision detection issue.
I gave it 84%. Rightly or wrongly - you decide ;-)
Krakout is a good take on that genre, esp as I got it free on a YS tape. Hot Shot (mentioned earlier on) is another alternate take on the standard game, along with an unusual 2 player mode.
Batty is another game I've reviewed & rated highly which shows I really like it. Not keen on the v.high difficulty level.
I've also played a lot of the breakout element on Oink! It's got quite colourful and distinctive brick arrangements on the screen and it allows you to automatically fire a gun without needing to get a power-up first.
For me, I'd put Arkanoid as my favourite / best bat n ball game. Not sure about the worst but Thro the Wall springs to mind.
a little more than my 2p's worth ... (sorry)
I'm glad that you started this thread. When I returned home to Speccyland I tried Arkanoid 2 and found it very compelling. I'd never played it before. Eventually I battered my way through it. It is quite a frenzied challenge.
Last night I tried Krakout for the first time. I'd avoided it following the Crash review. It feels a lot slower, and I find it quite soothing. I can get to level 12 already without the anxiety rush that Arkanoid 2 brought about.
I doubt the programmers were aiming for 'soothing' when they created the game, but it is a quality that makes it a very enjoyable game for me right now.
I read that there are 100 levels to get through, which is good news for me - though on time alone that would make it impossible for me to play through at one sitting.
There are other games with this problem of having too many stages to complete in one go - I think it's against the spirit of 8-bit gaming, and I think arcade type games should be beatable in half an hour at most.
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