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content/software/clean-sweep.md

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+title: Clean Sweep
+years:
+- '1974'
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+    value: '1974'
+  - label: companies
+    value: RamTek
+  - label: type
+    value: game
+  - label: media
+    value: arcade cabinet
+  - label: systems
+    value: Arcade
+  - label: number of players
+    value: 1 - 2 players (alternate)
+  - label: staff
+    value: Howell Ivey
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+  - title: from official flyer
+    subtitle: ''
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+  - title: arcade cabinet
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
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+  - title: arcade cabinet - detail
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+  machines:
+  - /museum/misc-arcade-video-games
+  company: /companies/misc
+  oc_id: 696
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230127051226/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=696
+    date: '2023-01-27'
+---
+
+Clean Sweep is an obscure early videogame designed by Howell Ivey in 1974.
+
+Players try to erase a field of dots by directing a bouncing ball with a joystick-controlled paddle that is moved horizontally across the bottom of the screen. Each time the ball passes over a dot, the dot gets erased and the player gets a point. If he erases all the dots, he scores a "clean sweep" and can win a free game.
+
+Though Clean Sweep is clearly a variation around the popular pong theme of the time, this game looks more like a mix between [Breakout](/software/breakout/) (destroy everything up there with your paddle) and [Pac-Man](/software/pac-man-also-known-as-puck-man-jap/) (eat all the dots), but ... many years in advance!!! Breakout was released in 1976 and Pac-Man in 1980. Quite impressive.
+
+Clean Sweep is a very original game for the time, which must have inspired other designers/manufacturers.
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+It's more harder than it seems, as the ball gets faster very quickly.