ARKANOID app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 2180 ratings )
Games Entertainment Action Arcade
Developer: TAITO Corporation
4.99 USD
Current version: 1.2.2, last update: 8 years ago
First release : 07 Sep 2009
App size: 40.59 Mb

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"TAITOs iconic block-destroying arcade classic ARKANOID, now available for the iPhone and iPod touch!

Use the intuitive slide controls-ideally suited to the iPhone-to guide your VAUS spaceship from side to side, deflecting the energy ball and destroying the space wall, brick-by-brick! Broken bricks release a wide variety of power-up items, each adding a unique spin to game play.

The game system changes as the story progresses, revealing new VAUS craft, new gimmicks, and new stages!

Features:
* Impressive volume: over 100 stages!
* Branching level progression: blaze your own trail!
* A mysterious story that reveals its secrets as play progresses!
* Clever additions guaranteed to make long-time ARKANOID fans grin!
* ARKANOIDs legendary boss battles! Strange enemies await your challenge!
* The MyBGM system allows you to customize the sound, assigning your favorite songs as background music!
* Packed with many more attractive features!

This edition also includes a Versus Mode, allowing two players to compete against each other using a single iPhone/iPod touch! This mode combines the standard ARKANOID rules with the new Smash factor, resulting in intense, pulse-pounding battles!

ARKANOID: a deep and satisfying game experience for one or two players!"

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Ver.1.2.1
Upgrade Details:
A bug related to the Recommended Apps feature and iOS4 devices has been fixed.
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Pros and cons of ARKANOID app for iPhone and iPad

ARKANOID app good for

I saw this and immediately bought it. I was surprised I beat it on the first try on medium difficulty starting with 3 lives. I think I lost 3 lives throughout the entire game and, of course, I mustve picked up extra lives along the way. I should qualify this by saying that I once stayed on the *arcade* machine once for 45 minutes with one quarter… so I look forward to trying the more difficult setting. All in all, I really like it, but I dont know why sometimes on the later levels it becomes jerky when there are three balls moving incredibly fast. This didnt happen on the 1986 arcade version and I believe the iPhones capabilities are a bit better than the graphics processing on that machine!
Just like the one that I played when I was a kid. Very fun game.
I love this game! Brings back alot of memories of pumping quarters into arcade cabinets! This is a great update visually but I do wish there was an option for the classic music. I loved the little jingle at the start of a new stage. Sadly that isnt there anymore. Its only at the beginning of the game. That said this update is really fun! Back to gaming!!
I had this on the Amiga and the memories are back! And cooler! Beats all the brick-like copies out there.
Just like the original! Great fun. Have to wait for someone or something? Pull this out and time flies by. Great job. First review I have ever written...thats how impressed I am.
Sometimes I click to save progress. Try to play later and it starts at the 1st level again! Please fix this bug! Otherwise great game.

Some bad moments

After the latest iOS update, all the colors in the game are screwed up. Red is now blue for example. The game still works, but it looks kind of ugly. Also, it would be nice to be able to listen to iPod music while playing. Sure you can select specific tracks to play for each stage, but thats not really the same thing. This game needs an update.
I paid for the game (was my favorite arcade game!!) and played it once which definitely meet my expectations......but then went "other TAITO" games within the main menu....it opened a web browser, which is fine, but now whenever I click on the app on my iphone the web browser comes up and not the game!! I cant play it anymore!! FIX THIS PROBLEM!!!
If you enjoy watching a blank white screen, then this is the game for you. Otherwise, save your money and avoid this scam.
I love paying $5.00 for an app the just simply doesnt work... The support page for ARKANOID is in Chinese or Japanese.
Web browser opens... White page.. Need to quit and play something else....
i wanted this game very badly after becoming addicted to brick breaker, even though there were some poor reviews. Sure enough, I get the white screen of death. Enjoy my 5 bucks!!

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