![]() ![]() Tournament Arkanoid ( 1987): The second title in the series was released in the year after the first one, but it was more of an upgrade to it than an actual sequel the only thing different about it was that all thirty-two rounds had completely different arrangements of bricks, and some of them were much more challenging than those of the original (the fourth one was also made to look like Chack'n, the main character from 1983's Chack'n Pop).Arkanoid ( 1986): The first title in the series was an update of the early "ball-and-paddle" arcade games, in particular Atari's Super Breakout ( 1978), and it introduced a number of new elements to the genre (including bricks that left powerups behind in the form of falling capsules when destroyed) the fifth round was also made to look like a "Medium Invader", from both the original Space Invaders (also 1978) and Space Invaders Part II ( 1979).Taito Corporation, Romstar, Nintendo, Unbalance, Square EnixĪrkanoid is a series of nine Breakout-style games that were released by Taito Corporation between 19 the first three games in the series, Arkanoid (1986), Tournament Arkanoid ( 1987), and Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh (again 1987), were initially licensed to Taito's then-current American distributor Romstar, for manufacture and distribution in the United States, while the fourth one, Arkanoid: Doh It Again ( 1997), was a direct-to-console title for the SNES which was later converted for Microsoft Windows, and the fifth one, Arkanoid Returns (also 1997), was only ever released in Japan. ![]()
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