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Arkanoid

Arkanoid is a block breaker video game developed by Taito. It was released in arcades in 1986 by Taito and in North America by Romstar. The game revitalized the concept established by Atari, Inc.'s successful Breakout from a decade earlier and established the model for numerous games to follow. Arkanoid was ported to many home systems, including the…

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Genre
Block breaker
Composer
Hisayoshi Ogura
Designers
Akira Fujita Hiroshi Tsujino
Developer
Taito
Modes
Single-player, multiplayer
Platform
Amstrad CPC, Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, NES, iOS, Classic Mac OS, mobile phone, MS-DOS, MSX, PC-88, PC-98, Thomson, TRS-80 Colo…

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Arkanoid

Nodes64
Edges63
Triples145
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.03125
Components1

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related to Critical · 23
Arkanoid → Along, Amiga, Best Arcade Translation, Breakout, Clare Edgeley, Compute, Computer, Computer Gaming World, Computers, Dragon, Hartley, It, Kirk Lesser, NES, November, Pac-Man, Patricia, Pong, She, Space Invaders
related to Legacy · 21
Arkanoid → Arkanoid DS, Arkanoid Live, Arkanoid Plus, Arkanoid Returns, August, Developed, Doh, Doh It Again, Japan, May, North America, PAL, Revenge, Romstar, September, Taito America, Taito Japan, The WiiWare, Tournament Arkanoid, United States
related to Ports · 19
Arkanoid → Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Arcade Archives, Atari, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Classic Mac OS, Commodore, Computer, IBM PC, Imagine, MSX, NES, On May, Tandy Color Computer, The NES, ZX Spectrum
related to Accolades · 18
Arkanoid → Best Arcade Game, Best Arcade Translation, Best Video/Computer Arcade Translation, Compute, Computer Entertainment, Computer Gaming World, Electronic Gaming Monthly, Entertainment Software Trade Awards, Fame, Games, Gamest Awards, In, NES, Popular Computing Weekly Hall, Silver Award, They, VideoGames, Year
related to Commercial · 17
Arkanoid → August, December, Euromax, Europe, February, Game Machine, In, In Japan, It, Japan's, London's Electrocoin, November, October, September, Taito's, United Kingdom, United States
related to Development and release · 15
Arkanoid → Akira Fujita, Atari's Breakout, Blocks, Fujita, Hiroshi, Hisayoshi Ogura, ONIJUST, Taito Classic, Taito's, Taito's Yokohama Research Institute, The, This, Tron, Tsujino, Zuntata
related to Gameplay · 8
Arkanoid → After, DOH, Floating, Its, Most, Some, The, Vaus
Release · 7
Arkanoid → ArcadeJP: July 1986NA: August 1986 NESJP: December 26, 1986NA: August 1987 C64EU: Early 1987NA: July 1988 MS-DOS November 1988 Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari ST December 1988, EU: Early 1987, JP: December 26, 1986, JP: July 1986, NA: August 1986, NA: August 1987, NA: July 1988
related to External links · 7
Arkanoid → Amiga Hall, Killer List, Lemon, LightArkanoid, MobyGamesArkanoid, SpectrumComputing, VideogamesArkanoid
Publishers · 2
Arkanoid → JP/EU: Taito, NA: Romstar

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game arcade taito 1987 released version nes 1986 tsujino player block breaker vaus breakout games blocks romstar gameplay computer fujita

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ArkanoidComposerHisayoshi Ogura1.00infobox
ArkanoidDesignersAkira Fujita Hiroshi Tsujino1.00infobox
ArkanoidDeveloperTaito1.00infobox
ArkanoidGenreBlock breaker1.00infobox
ArkanoidModesSingle-player, multiplayer1.00infobox
ArkanoidPlatformAmstrad CPC, Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, NES, iOS, Classic Mac OS, mobile phone, MS-DOS, MSX, PC-88, PC-98, Thomson, TRS-80 Colo…1.00infobox
ArkanoidPublishersJP/EU: Taito1.00infobox
ArkanoidPublishersNA: Romstar1.00infobox
ArkanoidReleaseArcadeJP: July 1986NA: August 1986 NESJP: December 26, 1986NA: August 1987 C64EU: Early 1987NA: July 1988 MS-DOS November 1988 Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari ST December 19881.00infobox
ArkanoidReleaseJP: July 19861.00infobox
ArkanoidReleaseNA: August 19861.00infobox
ArkanoidReleaseJP: December 26, 19861.00infobox
ArkanoidReleaseNA: August 19871.00infobox
ArkanoidReleaseEU: Early 19871.00infobox
ArkanoidReleaseNA: July 19881.00infobox
ArkanoidSeriesArkanoid1.00infobox
Arkanoidis ablock breaker video game developed by Taito0.90text

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