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
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