Arcade / Arcade - Breakout / Pong / Circus · 1985

Breakout

Published by Atari Corporation · Developed by [n/a]

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Information

Genre: Arcade - Breakout / Pong / Circus
Language: Compiled C
Controls: Mouse
Players: 1
Resolution: Low, Medium, High, VGA, RGB
Programmer(s): Householder, Matt
Graphic Artist(s): Householder, Matt
Game design: Householder, Matt
Musician(s): [n/a]
Sound FX: [n/a]
Dump: Unreleased
Year: 1985
Publisher: Atari Corporation
Distributor: -
Developer: [n/a]
Licensed from: -
Software: English
License: Promotional
ST Type: ST, STe, TT, Falcon030, 0.5MB
Version: [WIP]

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Trivia (2)

First ever Atari ST game

Accessory Breakout was the first ever game shown publicly on the Atari ST screen. It was part of a launch demonstration of the new Atari ST 16bit computer at CES Wintershow in January 1985. Note that the version shown in the video is based on the Atari's internal betaversion of the GEM Desktop, which ran from a cartridge instead of a floppy disk based TOS/GEM shipped with the ST in summer 1985.

Origins

Breakout was written in a day or so and it's main purpose was to test ST's capability to run Accessory type programs simultaneously while GEM or a GEM compatible program was sharing the computer resources.
Source: The Retro Hour podcast, Matt Householder interview