A holiday gift for Colecovision enthusiasts

[AnalogKid]

Here's a little Christmas gift for all you Colecovision fans with roller controllers.  There aren't enough games that support it and I couldn't find a port of the 1978 arcade classic Breakout so I threw this together pretty quickly to get it out for Christmas.  Like the original you can influence the angle by using the edges of the paddle, unlike the original the ball doesn't pass through bricks on the way back down which always seemed a little weird and besides the ricochets are pretty cool.  I'm sure it's not without bugs but it's a freebie.  I did also code for joysticks but it's just not the same and lacks something.  If folks want me to upload that version as well, I will.

 

Breakout ROM

[+evg2000]

yes, please upload the joystick version so I can try it with my paddle controller

 

thanks

[zyzzle]

Thanks for this cool Christmas gift! Love all of your releases! The game works very well for me.

[rietveld]

I am setting up my roller controller right now 

 

Thanks.  !

[AnalogKid]

here's the joystick version: Breakout for joystick ROM

[rietveld]

16 hours ago, AnalogKid said:

here's the joystick version: Breakout for joystick ROM

The joystick version works very well with john Lundy's Adam mouse adapter 

Your game very good

[+S.D.W.]

Thank you! Merry Christmas!

[AnalogKid]

I just uploaded updated ROMs with one small fix. The ricochet logic was wrong for the case where the ball is bouncing off the back wall. I remember as a kid playing Breakout on the 2600 trying to open up a hole to the top so the ball would take out the top part of the wall quickly. To download just use the links I already posted.

[OrangeKryptonite]

Thank you so much for sharing this. The game is excellent and could easily be sold in cartridge format. Nice clean sharp graphics, nice color scheme and decent sounds. And love that the score carries over after clearing a level. Amazing work!

 

[+sramirez2008]

On 12/24/2023 at 3:55 PM, AnalogKid said:

 

Here's a little Christmas gift for all you Colecovision fans with roller controllers.

 

Thank you for sharing your game. There can never be enough roller controller games.

[AnalogKid]

On 1/16/2024 at 12:06 PM, sramirez2008 said:

Thank you for sharing your game. There can never be enough roller controller games.

One of these days I'm going to get around to finishing up Missile Command.  Also, I'm currently working on a game for the steering wheel, another vastly underutilized input device.

[+sramirez2008]

12 minutes ago, AnalogKid said:

Also, I'm currently working on a game for the steering wheel, another vastly underutilized input device.