If you can steel yourself for a post-modern jumble of space exploration and robotic sing-song, Upside Down Cake’s “Star Strike” offers a neat walk through Atari antiquity. Some of these games certainly deserve the homage.
YouTube user blankchip18 used 4.5kg of Gummy Bears to make a stop motion tribute to Tetris, Breakout, Pac-Man and more.
Sex-rated Xbox 360 community game Break One Out is a serviceable Breakout clone that rewards you with censored pictures of a naked woman. Video included.
Atari has fired off some stern letters to iPhone games developers, citing infringement of their Breakout intellectual property.
Bootant has received a takedown for Break Classic and BreakTouch 3D and SpiffyWare was given a talking to for SuperPong 2 – citing both Breakout and Pong infringements.
Thing is, while the Tetris clone Tris was pulled, this was due to the too-similar name – the gameplay was almost certainly not actionable. If Atari are applying the same legal principles, shouldn’t they also be going after the producers of Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo?
Atari’s Legal Team Attacking iPhone “Breakout” Clones [Touch Arcade]