As the name suggests, Breakout is the classic bat 'n' ball game, but don't let that put you off.
You have three balls to knock down as many bricks as you can and with every complete brick wall you knock down, the game gets harder. It features very smooth sprite graphics and appropriate sounds.
Considering the memory limitations of the standard MS, a number of nice touches such as Freeze. Halt and the facility to skip through screens makes this program a very slick product.
The instructions, laboriously typed out, are comprehensive. Although the inlay card and the instructions do not look very professional, the quality of this 100% machine code game is far higher than that of cassette based games produced by CGL. For BASIC-G owners, there is a free game called Codebreak included.
M5 owners aren't exactly spoilt for choice when it comes to software - in fact they are positively starved - and any game is welcome. Admittedly Breakout isn't the most original nor the most exhilarating game ever created, but at £5.95 it is a great deal cheaper than cartridge software and represents good value for money.
12th June 1984
