DOS breakout clone: steer a color-changing ball towards exit

[Pepperoni]

Hey everyone,

I am looking for a game for a long time, but cannot find it anywhere. This is probably because I only remember the basic gameplay but nothing around the name.

I played the game on a windows 95 machine, but I think (not sure!) that it was part of a game collection for Windows DOS. The collection contained both shareware and freeware if I remember correctly.

What I definitely remember is the gameplay.
Before I describe any further. It was a bit like "breakout", the atari classic, but instead of focussing on the board on the lower reflection part you actively had to steer the ball. So it works the following: you control a ball and must reach the exit of the map on the screen. The ball can change colors and must clean out bricks to reach the exit. You can change colors if you hit a "coloring" brick and must then remove the bricks with the same color in order to pass further. There were also "kill" bricks or something like that, meaning: you shouldn't touch those or you'll lose. So it was a pretty colorful screen and steering the ball was getting pretty difficult in between all those "kill" bricks, I remember. That's it.

I liked the gameplay and would like to try it on again.
Thanks in advance for your help.

[Quadko]

Was it still a top-down playing field, or like a maze, or 3D?

Maybe one of the Oxyd / Per.Oxyd games?
http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/oxyd-series

Here's a list of breakout type games to look through
http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/bre ... t,0/so,1a/

Or maybe it was more a "rolling ball" type game like Marble Madness and more:
http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/gen ... t,0/so,1a/

[Pepperoni]

Hi
thanks for your reply. could not find the game in the lists there though

It was not 3D
It was top down

To add:
I am from Germany, most of the games I had were for Windows DOS 3.1 and German language.

[Quadko]

So, no paddle like breakout, just control the ball directly? But it had momentum and bounced around on its own?


Win 3x action game List, jic - 200 games:
http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/w ... list-games

Long shot lateral thinking guess
http://www.mobygames.com/game/quadralien

[MrFlibble]

I am from Germany, most of the games I had were for Windows DOS 3.1 and German language.

AFAIK there were quite a few German shareware games for Win3.1 back then. Not all might be documented at MobyGames.

You can also try checking archived websites of German software publishers like Ticsoft, CDV or Schenk & Horn, as well as freeware developers like Digital Nightmares.

Also there was an excellent old gaming website run by Theodor Lauppert, a video game enthusiast from Austria. He sadly passed away a few years ago and the site is down but you can still access most of it via the Wayback Machine:
http://theodor.lauppert.ws/games/

Here's a page dedicated to Breakout and its clones:
http://theodor.lauppert.ws/games/breakout.htm

And here's one about Sokoban which as far as I can tell could be similar to what you're looking for:
http://theodor.lauppert.ws/games/sokoban.htm

General page about puzzle games:
http://theodor.lauppert.ws/games/puzzle.htm

[Akadawa]

Hey pepperoni,

Do you ever find the game oder Gamename?

[MrFlibble]

It was a bit like "breakout", the atari classic, but instead of focussing on the board on the lower reflection part you actively had to steer the ball. So it works the following: you control a ball and must reach the exit of the map on the screen. The ball can change colors and must clean out bricks to reach the exit. You can change colors if you hit a "coloring" brick and must then remove the bricks with the same color in order to pass further. There were also "kill" bricks or something like that, meaning: you shouldn't touch those or you'll lose. So it was a pretty colorful screen and steering the ball was getting pretty difficult in between all those "kill" bricks, I remember. That's it.

This is a Crillion clone for certain, and I can name a few of these from German developers:
Bubble Blobb
Bubble Blobb II
HitBlock