Game: Cool Bricks Console: Gameboy Colour only Genre: Arcade Save: Password Size: 8 megs

Colourful game based on older types of arcade games that are long gone and forgotten. There was once a time when the Atari was around and one of the best Arcade games was called Arkanoid. You have a type of a platform or device or thingy where the only movement is left and right and the goal is to simply get the ball to hit your thingy and let it hit bricks to break the bricks away. Thats all, simply hit the ball and the ball does it all, bouncing around and picking up speed. The first game likethis was called Breakout which was for an ancient atari. Few colours a whole row of bricks a ball and a thingy to hit the ball with. Thats all. Then came arkanoid and spiced it all up with wacky transformations for your thingy and the ball, moving bricks, marbles falling and the cool laser ball which could go through a whole row of bricks like a red hot poker going through butter.

The first type of this game that came out for the gameboy was called Alleyway. Fun in a sort of a way but also irritating the way the ball kept going faster and faster and the way everytime you hit the end of the screen(at he top) your thingy got even smaller. Lets just say it is the clone of Breakout.

In this game there are certin differences such as, the ball does not pick up speed for every different brick you hit or every 10 seconds, 150 well built levels each to keep you hooked to the game, every few levels finished they give a password so you can allways start at the same level, game has an Arkanoid style gaming, amazingly one of the most non-irritating arcade games ever (classic games such as Tetris or Docter Mario still have the tendancy to piss me off!!) and its dangeriously addictive and easy to play, brilliant graphics and its worth the money. The game can be a bit too easy but 150 levels will surely take ages to finish but the ball does slow down or picks up speed sometimes in which way you hit it. In some ways the game is like arkanoid but it contains its own ideas such as both games can transform the thingy into some kind of laser firing weapon to blast away bricks or types of laser balls to cut through the bricks, the game also has grenades, rockets and super laser, its features include alien spaceships flying around shooting rockets at you or a blob which swallows your ball and spits it somewhere else, whacky but fun. Cool Bricks will probably sell like hot cakes if you want my opinion. Probably one of the best arcade games that the colour gameboy can offer.

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