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Breakout
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Name: Breakout Developer: Atari Year: 1976 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Breakout Pinout Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Breakout DescriptionA ball-and-paddle game where the object is to collect points while hitting a ball towards a wall of bricks. When hit, the tiles disappear and the ball rebounds.Breakout was produced by Atari in 1976. Atari released 139 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Other machines made by Atari during the time period Breakout was produced include Atarians, Night Driver, LeMans, Indy 4, Cops 'N Robbers, Anti-Aircraft II -- aka Anti-Aircraft, Crash 'N Score, Hi-Way, Goal IV, and Jet Fighter. Breakout - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.00 (4 votes)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Breakout CensusThere are 12,016 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,532 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 161,823 machines (6,808 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 106 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 47 of these machines are owned by our active Breakout collectors. And of these, 37 are original dedicated machines, and 10 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with Breakout machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Breakout circuit boards for sale. Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Breakout. This game ranks a 31 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 7 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TriviaWhen Steve Jobs worked at Atari, the company was working on creating the arcade game Breakout, which required 80 Integrated Circuits ICs. The less ICs there were, the cheaper the games would be to produce, so Nolan Bushnell, Atari's president, offered Jobs 750 to come up with a design, with a 100 bonus for every IC that could be knocked out of the design. Jobs asked his friend Steve Wozniak for help with the challenge and offered to split the 750, and over four days and nights they put together a design that only required 30 ICs. Bushnell gave Jobs his 5000 bonus, which Jobs "split" with Wozniak by telling him it was a 700 bonus, giving him "half," or 350. Woz was delighted, but years later found out the truth.As it was, Wozniak's design cut the number of TTL chips to 42, but Atari's manufacturing methods could not recreate the design in that way, and they eventually went with their own design which included about 100 TTL chips. The actual gameplay appeared to be the same as Wozniak's design. Legacy
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eBay ListingsClick to search eBay for Breakout Videogame machines and related items.Click to search eBay for Atari for machines and parts. Check out the IAM/KLOV report of the hottest coin-op machine auctions, powered by Ace.com.
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