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Hisayoshi Ogura, the founder of Taito's "house band" Zuntata, created the game's music.
Computer Gaming World stated in 1988 that Arkanoid on the Amiga was "a perfect version of the arcade game ... incredible!
The game was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon #144 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column.
Compute! named the game to its list of "nine great games for 1989", describing it as "hypnotic, addictive, and fascinating".
In 1997, Electronic Gaming Monthly editors ranked the NES version the 41st best console video game of all time, describing it as "the type of game that you'd pick up because you need a quick video game fix but would end up playing for hours".
As a "game expansion set" for a retro-revival console containing many arcade games released by Taito, a peripheral dedicated to that console, the Paddle & Trackball, and a game card containing 10 compatible titles were released together at the same time, and this game card carries ports of 3 arcade titles in the Arkanoid series, including this one.
The FC version scored 7, 7, 7 and 6 in the Famitsu Cross Review, for 27 points.
Mobile phone game: each title except the 4th was ported, and many new stages were prepared.
It was the first paid home port to reproduce the arcade version in 36 years, but for rights reasons the block layouts of some rounds were replaced with entirely new ones. The same is true of Revenge of Doh.
The first port to a home console was the release in 2009-12 on the Wii Virtual Console Arcade, retitled Namco Quester.
The first Touhou Project game, Highly Responsive to Prayers, which was originally released in 1997, was heavily influenced by Arkanoid gameplay.
Arkanoid was the first game to enter the Popular Computing Weekly Hall of Fame, in 1987.
The first Touhou Project game, Highly Responsive to Prayers, which was originally released in 1997, was heavily influenced by Arkanoid gameplay.
It was the first paid home port to reproduce the arcade version in 36 years, but for rights reasons the block layouts of some rounds were replaced with entirely new ones. The same is true of Revenge of Doh.
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