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Alleyway
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Item Description
A ball, a paddle and a wall of bricks: Alleyway takes the Breakout formula about as far as a first-generation Game Boy cartridge could. It was one of the very first games released for the Game Boy in 1989, made by Nintendo R&D1, the Gunpei Yokoi-led team that designed the handheld itself, together with Intelligent Systems. On the system's crisp four-shade screen, a bouncing ball and a field of bricks is about as readable as action gets.
What keeps it from being a straight clone is the way the stages twist the rules. The 24 regular stages come in groups of three built on eight brick patterns: the second stage of each group slides its bricks sideways, and the third pushes the whole wall down toward you in bursts that speed up as you keep returning the ball. After the early stages your paddle shrinks to half size if the ball touches the ceiling, gray and black bricks kick up the ball's speed, and indestructible bricks start appearing later on, so the game gets steadily meaner without ever changing its basic loop.
Every three stages comes a bonus round, and that is where Nintendo slipped in its personality. The bricks are arranged into Super Mario Bros. characters, from Mario himself to a Blooper, a Bullet Bill and Bowser, and the ball plows straight through them without bouncing back while a timer runs down. These are the only stages with background music. International box art later made it official that Mario is the one piloting the paddle ship.
Critics at the time found it simple, and it is: a lean, repetitive arcade loop with nothing to unlock and no story to follow. That plainness is also why it still works as a quick pick-up-and-play session. Alleyway belongs to the Game Boy's opening-day lineup, made by the same team that built the hardware, and it captures exactly what Nintendo thought a portable game should be before anyone knew what the Game Boy would become.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1989
- Publisher
- Playtronic
- Developer
- Nintendo R&D1
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Interstellar ping-pong with a deadly energy ball! Your spaceship is at the gate of the Alleyway. Use your vessel to repel the energy ball. Atomize space grids with your return shots. Destroy the entire field and move on to even more challenging targets. You're in command in the Alleyway!
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