GAME · ACTION · FAMILY

Breakout

1976 · 0h 00m

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You must use a horizontally-sliding paddle to bounce a ball against colorful bars at the top of the screen. Each segment of the bars touched by the ball disappears. The object is to keep the...

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Release Date: May 13, 1976

Storyline

Nolan Bushnell offered Steve Jobs a monetary bonus if he could complete build the game with less than 50 chips. Inspired by this, Jobs and Steve Wozniak went on to deliver a product that was made up of 42 chips. This was unusual and programmers couldn't figure out how to reproduce the game with so few parts.