Atari Forces the Removal of Breakout / Arknoid Clones | Days Later, Releases ‘Super Breakout’

by Jody Mitoma on September 23, 2008 at 8:44 pm

The developers of BreakClassic and BreakTouch 3D posted on the TouchArcade forums on September 17th that Atari insisted they remove their game from the App Store.

Usually when this happens, the company asking for the removal has plans to release a port of their licensed game to the iPhone App Store in the coming weeks. So far this has been true with Line Rider, Tetris, and Boulder Dash Rocks.

As you would suspect, Atari released their own version of Breakout, which they’ve called ‘Super Breakout’, and is available via the iPhone App Store for $4.99. Other Breakout style games are available from $0.99 - $2.99, so the choice is yours.

Super Breakout features two-player gaming, two gameplay modes; Classic and Super, the ability to upload your high scores online, upload your own background image for in-game play, and you can even listen to your own tunes via the iPhone’s iPod music player. Hmmm, maybe it’s worth the $4.99 after all..

(Super Breakout iTunes Link)

(via Finger Gaming (2) )