Krakout

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Krakout

Game No.	51
Developer	Andy Green, Terry Lloyd (gfx), Rob Toone
Company
Publisher	Prism Leisure Corporation
Musician	Ben Daglish, Lodger Shriggzy
HVSC-File	/Daglish_Ben/ Krakout.sid
Release	1987
Plattform	{{{Plattform}}}
Genre	Arcade - Breakout/Pong
Gamemode	1P only
Operation
Media
Language
Information

1 Voting
2 Description
3 Design
4 Hints
- 4.1 Aliens
- 4.2 Bonuses
5 Solution
6 Cheats
7 Critics
8 Miscellaneous
9 Highscore
10 Weblinks

[edit] Voting

Voting of the C64-Wiki users (10=the best vote):
8.28 points at 18 votes (rank 57). You need to be logged in to cast a vote.
C64Games	9	19. November 2006 - "top" - 6516 downs
Lemon64	7,96	19. November 2006 - 74 votes

[edit] Description

Krakout is, like Arkanoid, a Breakout-clone, which is played from right to left (or vice versa) instead of bottom to top. So the aim in each of the 100 levels is to hit all the stones with a ball, which has to be kept in the game with the help of a bat. The strengths of Krakout are the tunes, the options and the well-done joystick operation. As usual, there are three outer walls, various aliens and of course different stones.

[edit] Design

The game area is rather inconspicuous, but the animations are benign and the tunes are sweeping. The different Aliens have a considerably higher influence on the gameplay than in Arkanoid.

[edit] Hints

[edit] Aliens

	Astronaut	harmless
	Bee hive	lets loose some bees
	Bee	Makes the bat stick
	Cannibal	eats the ball
	Cannibal	during digestion...
	Lightning	strikes through stones after hit of ball
	Bonus ship	when it hits the bat you get 10.000 points, a protective wall, transformation to stone or reduction of stones
	Egg	damages stones when touched
	Exit	allows level jump
	Time Out	all aliens stay where they are for approx. 30 seconds
	Twin Ball	hitting this with a ball activates a second ball

At the beginning the aliens are harmless and the level design is friendly...

[edit] Bonuses

	Bomb	destroys surrounding blocks
	Double	second bat
	Expand	bigger bat
	Glue	ball sticks to the bat
	Missile	bat can release a missile
	Shield	wall behind the bat
	Twice	doubles the points
	eXtra Life	gives an extra life
		slows down the ball

[edit] Solution

[edit] Cheats

You can reach a lot of points, when you make it to trap the ball in corners and between edges of undestroyable areas, (Krakout III, the square, where inside only the "egg" gets active and outside are only a few fields). Even though the ball seems to be trapped forever, it will escape after minutes or some hours (!!!!) and it is usually too late when you notice it.

[edit] Critics

FXXS: "In my opinion it is the best Breakout version for joystick players. Especially the different patterns of behaviour of the aliens and the groovy sound give this game its character. 9 points."

Anonymous author: "The game should be named more ORIGINAL than anything else which was created until now (2007) in this direction. Dozens of enemies with dozens of options, luscious 100 levels, always new challenges instead of tediously smashing only 150 stones. The hardest thing is not only -as in the "competitor games"- to keep the ball "in", but to properly control it. More fun is not available in a Breakout game!!!!!!"