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Breakout is back! One of the most original arcade games ever has been re-worked, rewritten and revamped to produce an incredibly addictive new game - Krakout.

Once again, you must use a bat to bounce a ball pong-style and hit bricks out of a series of walls.

Unfortunately, it isn't that easy as the ball moves considerably faster than your bat so if you're out of position you'll lose a life. To add to your problems, the screens are also packed with minions who have been commanded by the awesome ogre to not only deflect the ball past your bat but to sometimes turn into a second ball to distract or to just make a beeline for you and stun you, leaving you helpless as you lose yet another life.

The bricks havehad a total re-fit too and pose additional original problems in what was a simple game; some bricks need several hits to destroy them; others explode at a single touch; some even let the ball through but stay intact and others flip over when hit to produce bonus squares that self-destruct in a few seconds - but if you should manage to hit them, weird and wonderful things happen to your bat *and* your chancs of completing the screen.

Hit the squares *before* they explode and you could gain an extra life, double the scoring, expand the bat to five times its normal size, slow the ball down, *arm yourself* with a missile that can wipe out a whole row of bricks, create a sheild that stops you from losing the ball *or* get a second bat. Good, eh?

What can I say, this is a fascinating game that you will come back to time and time again.