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Breakout clone A Breakout clone (also known as a Breakout-style game,[1] block-breaking game, brick buster, or brick smash, brick break, brick destroyer/destruction, or ball-and-paddle game) is a sub-class of the "bat-and-ball" genre.[2][3] The genre is named for the dynamics of the player-controlled block, called a "bat" or a "paddle", upon which the game is based, which hits a ball towards another player's bat or different objects such as colored tiles (called a "brick"). The term brick buster, coined in the early 2000s, mostly refers to more modern games.[citation needed] Breakout-style games are characterized by the addition of a wall of blocks or similar objects that the player chips away at with the ball as part of the main gameplay.[1] Since the release of the original Breakout arcade game in 1976, and Super Breakout two years later,[4] there have been many clones and updates for various platforms. The profusion and notability of such games has been enough for them to also b

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