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Breakout is an arcade video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. [7] and released on May 13, 1976. [2] It was designed by Steve Wozniak, based on conceptualization from Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, who were influenced by the seminal 1972 Atari arcade game Pong.
May 12, 2011 · Tomohiro Nishikado’s design for Space Invaders, released to extraordinary success in 1976, was directly inspired by Breakout, with its emphasis on stages and high-scores.
Feb 11, 2022 · Atari historian Martin Goldberg has shared transcripts of discussions with Gary Waters, Steve Bristow and Don Lange that provide new insights into Breakout’s creation. Breakout was created to capitalize on Atari’s previous Pong success and retained many of that game’s paddle and ball mechanics.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak tells the story of working with Steve Jobs to create Breakout for Atari.
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Jun 6, 2023 · Breakout was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. When I wanted to do Breakout, none of my engineers wanted to do it, because they thought paddle games were over. So, I got Steve, and I put him on the night shift, because Wozniak was working at Hewlett Packard at the time.
Breakout is an arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc., and released on May 13, 1976. It was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, influenced by the seminal 1972 Atari arcade game Pong, and built by Steve Wozniak.
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Nolan Bushnell & VP of Engineering Steve Bristow, had an idea to make a single player game based off of the gameplay elements of Atari’s first coin-op arcade hit, Pong. The game would involve batting a ball against rows of bricks. The game would eventually be known as Breakout.
