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Breakout (ブレイクアウト)

Released in 1976

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Manufacturer: Atari
Developer: Atari
Distributor: Atari

Display
Raster
Orientation
Vertical
Resolution
?Unknown? x ?Unknown?
Colors
?Unknown?, B/W
Genre
Abstract
Attributes
Shooting
Controls
Knob / Button(s)
Size/Weight of Upright
65.5000 " x 25.2500" x 27.7500"

Game Summary

Move the paddle and destroy the bricks.

Hardware Platform: -Unique or Unknown-

Game Details

An extension of the Pong theme, Breakout was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who would go on to start Apple Computer.

The object of the game is to destroy the bricks at the top of the screen by hitting the ball into them. The ball is kept in motion by moving the paddle at the bottom of the screen. When a row of bricks was completed another, would replace it.

The game was black and white, but the bricks were colored with an overlay on the monitor. Enormously popular, the game spawned many variations.

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Knowledge Base

LIST: Atari Games
ROMs Manuals Game Name -------------- --------- --------------------------------------- 422 Super Pong TM-001 Mazer Blazer TM-004 Gran Trak 20 TM-008 Qwak TM-010 Tank TM-011 Gran Trak 10 TM-019 Pursuit TM-021 Twin Racer TM-025 Anti-Aircraft TM-027 Jet Fighte
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/list-atari.html - 11 K - Updated 1999.07.27
The Bronze Age (1971 to 1980) Video Game List
Vers 2.7 May 12, 1998 additions/corrections to aek@spies.com and kk@clickto.com Note: Date may either be release date, date from a manual or schematic, or the date that a game appears in a publication Monitor Type ------------ H-- = Horizontal V-- = Vertical -R- = Raster -V- = Vector --B = B&W --O = Color Overlay --C = Color --P = Projection Name Manuf Date uP Man/ROM # ---- ----- -
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/list-bronzeagebyyear.html - 30 K - Updated 1999.10.29
A Random Games-list
Game Name Manufacturer Year Pinout Class ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ V 005 Sega 1981 18 Wheeler Midway 1979 3D Bowling MED 1978 H 720 Degrees Atari Games 1986 800 Fathom USB 1982 H Aeroboto William
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/list-randomgames.html - 73 K - Updated 1999.10.29
Early Atari documentation list
Submitted by Gregg Woodcock (woodcock@bnr.ca) Here is a pretty complete list of documentation for Atari's early arcade video games. Note that "TM" stands for "Technical Manual" and "DP" stands for "Drawing Package [supplement]" which was later renamed to "SP" which stands for "Supplement Package". I am not sure what "CO" stands for but the "C" could be for "Correction" because most of the CO documents were errata or addendums to the manuals. In addition, most Atari games had "ST" documents which w
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/earlyataridocs.html - 6 K - Updated 2000.01.20
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/breakout.txt
Breakout (1976 Atari) --------------------- pin name pin name --------------- --------------- 1 GRD A GRD 2 GRD B GRD 3 16.5 VAC C 4 16.5 VAC D 5 +5V E 6 START LP 1 F 7 6.3 VAC H 8 START LP 2 J SERVE LED 9 COIN 2 NC K 10 COIN 2 NO L 11 COIN 1 NC M 12 COIN 1 NO N 13 START 1 NO P 14 R 15 START 2 NO S 16 T GRD 17 STATIC
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/breakout.txt - 1 K - Updated 2003.01.06
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/breakout.txt
BREAKOUT 1 GND A 2 GND B 3 16.5 VAC C 4 16.5 VAC D 5 +5V E 6 1 START LP F 7 6.3 VAC H 8 2 START LP J 9 COIN 2 N/C K 10 COIN 2 N/O L 11 COIN 1 N/C M 12 COIN 1 N/O N 1
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/breakout.txt - 1 K - Updated 1995.05.09
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/board pinouts/breakout.txt
Breakout (1976 Atari) pin name pin name --- ---- --- ---- 1 GRD A GRD 2 GRD B GRD 3 16.5 VAC C 4 16.5 VAC D 5 +5V E 6 START LP 1 F 7 6.3 VAC H 8 START LP 2 J SERVE LED 9 COIN 2 NC K 10 COIN 2 NO L 11 COIN 1 NC M 12 COIN 1 NO N 13 START 1 NO P 14 R 15 START 2 NO S 16 T GRD 17 STATIC ANT U PADDLE 1 (5k) 18 PADDLE 2 V VIDEO 19 SERVE SW W 20 SPEAKER
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/board pinouts/breakout.txt - 1 K - Updated 1997.11.22
The REAL "PONG" FAQ Version 1.02
10 Nov.1997 Creator & Maintainer: Sly D.C. *** Special Edition *** O.K.,Here's the legal stuff: Copyright (c) 1997, Sylvain De Chantal All rights reserved. This document may be copied, in whole or in part, by any means provided the copyright and contributors sections remain intact and no fee is charged for the information. Contributors retain the copyright to their individual contributions. The data contained here in is provided for informational purposes
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/faqs/faq-pong.html - 28 K - Updated 1999.10.30
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/listbyyear.txt
'H','R','B','Computer Space','Nutting Assoc',1971 'H','R','B','Pong','Atari',1972 'H','R','B','Astro Hockey','Brunswick',1973 'H','R','B','Astro Race','Taito(japan)',1973 'H','R','B','Davis Cup','Taito(japan)',1973 'H','R','B','Elepong','Taito(japan)',1973 'U','R','B','Elimination','Atari/Kee',1973 'H','R','B','Gotcha','Atari',1973 'H','R','C','Gotcha Color','Atari',1973 'H','R','B','Hockey','Ramtek',1973 'H','R','B','Hockey TV','Sega(japan)',1973 'H','R','B','Leader','Midway',1973 'H','R','B','
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/listbyyear.txt - 18 K - Updated 1999.07.10
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax87.txt
Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1987 Jed Margolin ___________________________________________________________________________ From: KIM::RAINS 2-JAN-1987 10:27:26.19 To: @sys$mail:engineer CC: Subj: Computer Health Note #3 VAX-edrin Headache #3 You've been poking around somewhere in another directory (something like SYS$USERDISK:[FRED.STUFF.MORESTUFF.EVENMORESTUFF]) and now you have found something you want to get back to or reference with out so much directory name baggage. Sure, it doesn't
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax87.txt - 271 K - Updated 2004.09.13
/kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax84.txt
Atari/Atari Games VaxMail 1984 Jed Margolin ___________________________________________________________________________ From: KIM::SUTTLES 9-JAN-1984 11:40 To: @SYS$MAIL:COINOP Subj: A neat trick with mail For all of you who use the MAIL program as a form of the "paperless office", I have discovered a bug (pronounced "fea-ture") in same. It seems that the addressee line (TO: ...) is parsed independently of file handling. Mail looks at each item in the list, and checks for a double colon (
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/historical documents/atari games vaxmail/vax84.txt - 281 K - Updated 2004.09.13

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