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228 files were never archived; see docs/not-recovered.md in the extraction repo. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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title: Clean Sweep
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years:
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- '1974'
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image: /media/museum/software/arcade_ramtek_cleansweep_ss1.jpg
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specs:
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- label: year of release
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value: '1974'
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- label: companies
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value: RamTek
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- label: type
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value: game
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- label: media
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value: arcade cabinet
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- label: systems
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value: Arcade
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- label: number of players
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value: 1 - 2 players (alternate)
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- label: staff
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value: Howell Ivey
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screenshots:
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- title: ''
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/arcade_ramtek_cleansweep_ss1.jpg
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- title: ''
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/arcade_ramtek_cleansweep_ss4.jpg
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- title: ''
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/arcade_ramtek_cleansweep_ss5.jpg
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- title: ''
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/arcade_ramtek_cleansweep_ss6.jpg
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- title: from official flyer
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/arcade_ramtek_cleansweep_ss3.jpg
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- title: arcade cabinet
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/arcade_ramtek_cleansweep_cab_1.jpg
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- title: arcade cabinet - detail
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/arcade_ramtek_cleansweep_cab_2.jpg
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machines:
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- /museum/misc-arcade-video-games
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company: /companies/misc
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oc_id: 696
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230127051226/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=696
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date: '2023-01-27'
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---
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Clean Sweep is an obscure early videogame designed by Howell Ivey in 1974.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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