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Play Arkanoid in your DHTML capable browser - Time Waster
by Lee Mathews Dec 5th 2008 at 10:00AM
I'm pretty sure if I added up all the money I spent as a kid playing Arkanoid I would have been able to afford the NES I never had. Nearly 20 years later, it's still an addictive, fun game that I can't seem to put down once I get started.Developer Scott Schiller has created a faithful reproduction in Javascript that runs in virtually any browser - including the iPhone.
The game loads in a flash, and I was impressed by how responsive the controls are. Several of the Flash clones I've played didn't track mouse movement well, but DHTML Arkanoid is silky-smooth.
As you can tell from the screenshot, all the power-ups are there. If you've never played Arkanoid before, the one you want is the the red capsule with the L on it.
Damn you, Schiller! I was supposed to be using this morning to get some more posts done, but how can I now? Those bricks aren't going to smash themselves, you know.
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shamowfski said 10:41AM on 12-05-2008
I couldn't get it to load in Firefox 3. Worked fine in IE 7 though. May just be my machine.
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scotty said 11:16AM on 12-05-2008
Works for me under FF3.
Works under Chrome, too, and in fact it seems to play faster.
Very impressive, but I think is even more impressive is that this works under iPhone, because this could be a way to bring games to the iPhone without having to go through Apple's walled garden (the App Store).
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DeoWulf said 6:59PM on 12-06-2008
Wouldn't load in Minefield, now it won't load in Shiretoko.
In other news, what inspires Mozilla to name stuff like that?
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iamhoff said 2:52PM on 12-08-2008
I freaking ruled at Arkanoid! Any hope of productivity I had just went out the window!
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