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---
title: Breakout
tags:
- ball and paddle
- breakout
years:
- '1976'
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- label: systems
value: Arcade
- label: number of players
value: 1 - 2 players (alternate)
- label: staff
value: Steve Bristow (conception), Nolan Bushnell, Steve Jobs
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- title: arcade cabinet
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oc_id: 314
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230322131820/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=314
date: '2023-03-22'
---
Breakout was a real breakthrough in videogame industry (easy). Despite the fact the people were starting to get bored of ball & paddle games which were here since 1972 (with Pong), Breakout renewed the genre with a new concept: a wall to destroy!
Nolan Bushnell, Atari's founder, wanted to turn Pong into a single player game.
Of course the game generated a vast legacy including the famous Arkanoid.