Breakout 2000

Time to beat

Main story

56.5 h5 reports

Main + extras

80 h4 reports

Completionist

141.5 h3 reports

Median of the hours reported by players who completed the game.

Synopsis

Breakout 2000 is a 1996 action video game developed by MP Games and published by Telegames for the Atari Jaguar. As part of Atari Corporation's 2000 series of arcade game revivals, it is a remake of the arcade game Breakout (1976), and one of the last officially licensed releases for the platform. Featuring a similar premise to Breakout, the player must destroy a layer of brick lines by repeatedly bouncing a ball spawned off a paddle into them and keep it in play. Gameplay modifications to the original game include a third-person perspective behind the paddle in a pseudo-3D playfield, power-ups, bonus levels, enemies, varying level designs, and multiplayer features. Breakout 2000 was the first Jaguar project by MP Games, which had previously worked on productivity software for PC and WalZ, a Breakout-style game for Atari ST. Lead programmer Mario Perdue originally developed a Windows 3.1x version of WalZ, which went unreleased due to its similarity with Breakout and fear of lawsuit from Atari. He later approached Atari staffer Jay Patton, who recommended Mario working with the Jaguar hardware and loaned him a development kit for the system. Mario sent a copy of a 3D Breakout-style game for Windows called WalZ 3D to Atari staff, who liked the concept and asked Mario if he would be interested in completing the game as Breakout 2000, to which he agreed. Upon release, Breakout 2000 received an average reception from critics. Reviewers praised its gameplay and multiplayer mode, with a mixed reception on the game's controls, and criticism directed towards the game's audiovisual presentation and slow pacing.

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Details

Type

Game

Release date

December 10, 1996

Genres

action game

Platforms

Atari Jaguar

Countries

United States