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A subgenre of Action Games, often referred to as "Breakout clones" or "Arkanoid clones". In Japan, "Block Kuzushi" is the common name for the genre.
In their simplest forms, you control a paddle at the bottom of the screen, which you use to bounce a ball to destroy blocks. If the ball is not bounced back, it goes off the bottom edge of the screen and the player loses a life. Powerups and enemies are common in these games, though they were absent from the original Breakout.
Callbacks to classic arcade games often include segments like these.
Not to be confused with The Protomen song with the same trope name. Or Breakout Character as these games don't typically feature much of a story.
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The Pinball Deluxe table BRIX is a hybrid of Breakout and pinball, using destroyable bricks instead of pins.
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Aliens Go Home Run!
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FunOrb has "Brick-À-Brac".
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A Breakout-like minigame in 3D Dot Game Heroes is called "Blockout". Your hero's shield is the paddle, but you can use his/her sword to help propel the ball faster.
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Antonball Deluxe: Antonball is a game of Breakout set in a Mario Bros.-style arena. In addition to the usual brick-breaking, Anton uses other platforming skills to dodge and attack stage hazards that can harm him just as much as missing the ball. The mode Vs. Antonball pits up to four players against each other to break the other side's bricks first.
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Breakout, the Trope Maker
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The Wispy Woods bonus stage in Kirby's Pinball Land is a simple Breakout clone.
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In Overlord: Raising Hell, you get to play Breakout with a rolling, morbidly obese halfling... as soon as you finish taking him through the mini-golf course.
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The Bricks Of series, in which brick-breaking comes in underwater, Egyptian or medieval flavour.
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LittleBigPlanet has some levels like this, made by the community in the Level Editor. Of course, the big draw here isn't that it's a Breakout clone, it's that it's a Breakout clone made with the in-game tools.
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Jardinains! and its sequel are Breakout clones with nains that throw junk at your paddle and generally want to make your life miserable. You can knock them off their bricks and bounce them with your paddle to get powerups if you want revenge.
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Idle Breakout is a hybrid of Idle Game and breaking blocks, also on a far grander scale since with tens or even hundreds of balls bouncing around.
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Super Puzzle World 3 (A Super Mario World) hack has this for the first castle, complete with a Reznor edit to look like Pac Man. You can see it at the end of this video
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In I Wanna Be the Guy, there is a room where you must do this to open the path to the next room. Missing the ball—in this case Delicious Fruit—doesn't kill you, but it removes a block of the ground that you are standing on, revealing deadly spikes. Once you've cleared a path to the exit, you must then dodge the ball as you make your way out of the room, or else it will kill you.
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Kirby's Block Ball is breakout but with Kirby!
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The various DLC for Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces contain a minigame called Bind Breaker, where you use the ball to destroy the blocks that make up the characters' Barrier Jackets, stripping them down to bathing suits. Not for the more conservative of fans.
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Alpha Bounce, another clone with RPG elements, and Recycled IN SPACE!, is an online version. It has been ported to DSiWare, with some changes and further elaboration.
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Hyperballoid is breaking shapes (not just bricks) with a ball that bounces off a paddle.
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The Putt-Putt series spin-off Putt-Putt and Pep's Balloon-o-Rama, which has you bouncing Pep into the air to pop all the balloons before moving onto the next level.
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Bad Omen (a.k.a. Devilish) for the Sega Genesis.
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Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, a NES title, inverted this trope. One of the minigames had a ball-spitting face trying to destroy a block wall Jackie was standing on. The player had to deflect the balls by punching and kicking them, to avoid the complete destruction of the wall.
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BIT.TRIP BEAT uses it for a level boss.
BIT.TRIP FLUX combines it with Pong for another boss.
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Lyle in Cube Sector has you fight a boss in this manner.
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The Luiginary Wall attack in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team is a breakout style mini game, with the version used in Battle Broque Madame (the second mini game test section) being one with power ups, a score up to 999 and various other things.
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Crüe Ball has a hidden game where you play Breakout using a flying Flipper Sled against exploding skeletons.
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The programming puzzle site Advent of Code has puzzle 2019-13 where you must use the Intcode interpreter (built as part of previous puzzles) to simulate a Breakout style game and automate it so you break all the blocks.
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The paint brushes lines from Kirby: Canvas Curse take on properties that allow for an imitation of Breakout when pitted against Kracko and Kracko Jr.
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One level of Marvel Ultimate Alliance contains this as a minigame.
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Diamonds and its spinoff Diamonds for Kids had no paddle and only direct control of the ball's horizontal motion, but it could only destroy bricks of the same color it was. The Action52 Sega Genesis ripoff Bonkers copied this concept.
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Bowser's special move using his koopa minions in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story is a breakout minigame.
The Luiginary Wall attack in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team is a breakout style mini game, with the version used in Battle Broque Madame (the second mini game test section) being one with power ups, a score up to 999 and various other things.
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The Ricochet series, beginning with Xtreme, then Lost Worlds and Infinity. The latter two are known for their complex Level Editors.
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Arkanoid, the Trope Codifier
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Block Buster combined Breakout with Pong.
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The MCP Cone sequence in the TRON arcade game is Breakout done as a shoot-em-up.
Squeeze Box for the Atari 2600 has this play mechanic for the entire game.
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In Vexx, one mini-game in Tempest Peak Manor, the fourth world, has you playing Breakout. ...On a GIANT-screen TV. ...Controlling the joystick by standing on it.
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Wizorb, an Xbox Indie and PC game with some RPG Elements.
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The Atari Jaguar, PC, iOS and Android versions of Rayman feature a Breakout clone in the form of a hidden mini game called Ray Breakout. Instead of breaking bricks, you hit plums, and instead of controlling a paddle, you control Rayman.
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Touhou Reiiden ~ Highly Responsive to Prayers plays like a very strange hybrid of Breakout and a danmaku shoot 'em up. For one thing, the ball can safely touch the floor (it just resets your score gain), but touching it directly will kill Reimu. She need to perform actions like swinging her gohei or throwing talismans to actually swat the ball away. Next, some levels have indestructictible turrets that shoot at you, and at higher difficulties even the blocks shoot bullets when destroyed. Finally, every 5 levels there's a Boss Battle where Reimu needs to direct the ball to hit them while dodging all the bullets they shoot.
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