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The plot of this Breakout game places you in an electronic prison, each cell being filled with Neutron Bricks. These bricks must be destroyed with a ball to reveal exits which may lead to freedom.

You control up to four bats at once, with which you stop the ball from falling into trap zones. Monsters fly around the screen at times - slowing your bat down if touched - and collecting question marks causes strange things to happen. If you get bored with all this, a screen editor allows you to redesign the cell layout.

When I saw this game for the first time my reaction was 'Weird or what?!' That's not to say Traz is a bad game; on the contrary, it's a very *good* game as the Zzap! lads revealed, giving it 87% overall. Simply calling it an Arkanoid clone is doing it a great disservice and at a budget price, it's even better than before. In fact, I'd say it's (adopt Orson Welles voice:) "probably the best Breakout-style game on the C64."