Catching one ball bonus after another ball bonus will cancel the first bonus, which is true for paddle bonuses also. Note that some pills affect the ball or paddle only. The caveat with the wrap pill is that the paddle must move all the way past the edge of the screen before appearing on the other side. Wrap – allows the player to move the paddle past the screen edges, onto the opposite side of the screen (in other words, wraps the left screen edge to the right edge and vice versa).
If the player catches the multi pill while the ball is near the bottom of the screen, the balls reverse and launch upwards automatically. The player must only keep one ball in play at any time to continue play.
Life (paddle) – gives the player an extra life, but resets the paddle to the basic paddle without any bonuses. Only two lasers fired per side can appear on the screen at any given time, for a maximum of four lasers on screen total. So two laser hits are required to break a brick, and only 5 points are awarded per hit. One direct laser hit is equivalent to one-half direct ball hit. Lasers fire from the left and right sides of the paddle. Laser (paddle) – gives the player the ability to shoot lasers by hitting the spacebar. Large (paddle) – extends the paddle, making ball control slightly easier. If the missile breaks a brick, the player receives 50 points. Only one missile can appear on the screen at any time. Gun (paddle) – gives the player three missiles (“ammo”) which can be fired by the space button. Catching any other pill returns the controls to normal. The player can then aim the ball back upwards, and launch the ball with the spacebar.įlip – perhaps the most hated bonus pill in Brick Breaker, the flip pill inverts the controls such that left becomes right and vice versa. When it hits a brick, it will explode, breaking neighboring bricks.Ĭatch (paddle) – the ball sticks to the paddle when the player catches it. There are nine types of pills:īomb (ball) – the ball becomes a bomb. If the player catches a pill, they receive 50 points and some game-play change. Occasionally, when a ball breaks a brick, a bonus pill will fall down vertically. If the paddle and the ball strike each other a certain number of times, all bricks on the board shift down, although once the board shifts a certain distance down, it ceases to shift down further. The ball speeds up periodically as the game proceeds, however after a certain speed, the ball returns to its original slow speed. Each direct hit to a brick is worth 10 points. Silver bricks are obstacles, and the ball cannot break them. If the player lets the ball fall past the paddle, a life is lost.īricks can take one or more hits to break, depending on the type of brick, as indicated by its color. If the ball deflects back towards the paddle, the player must maneuver the paddle so that the ball will deflect back towards the bricks. Each time the ball hits a brick it breaks the brick and deflects away. The game begins when the player launches a ball towards the bricks. The player controls a paddle that can move left and right. The premise of Brick Breaker, like the million other Breakout copy-cats for those who have been living in a cave for the last 35-plus years, is that bricks are arranged in a pattern at the top of the screen. This passion for Brick Breaker extends to the highest levels of corporate America - the CEO and Chairman of one of Wall Street’s largest investment banks had to have Brick Breaker uninstalled from his BlackBerry after finding it “too distracting”, only to have it put back on shortly after! His high score – about 16,000. In fact, some users refer to the device as a CrackBerry because of its addicting nature, however this is mainly because of its email and web features.Īs BlackBerry users can attest, the game Brick Breaker, included by default, is itself an addicting game despite its 256 color, 2-D graphics and single-button game-play. Yet the BlackBerry has quite the fan base for a mobile device. A the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, and Sony Playstation 3 vie for sales in the “next generation” of console gaming - the Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry would seem to pale in comparison, if one were to look only at raw gaming power.
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