Title: Arkanoid

Manufacturer: Taito

Year: 1986

Hardware:

Main Processor: Z80 (8-bit; 6 MHz); M68705 (0.49 MHz)

Sound Hardware: AY8910 (1.5 MHz)

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Description

Ten years after Atari's "Breakout" was released, Taito releases "Arkanoid", it has basically the same concept, but introduced power-ups, and vastly improved gameplay and graphics to the genre.

The arcade game was followed by very faithfull conversions to home systems.

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Emulation Status

Emulators: MAME

Playable: Yes

Sound: Yes

Benchmark system: Intel Celeron - 433 MHz; S3 GX2 4 Mb AGP Videocard; Soundblaster 16; Win98; MAME v0.36

Benchmark results: 60 fps with tripple buffer on, vsync off, no frameskip; full screen interlaced mode

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Screenshots

Screenshots from Mame emulator

arkanoid-02.png (3032 bytes) arkanoid-12.png (1898 bytes) arkanoid-06.png (4487 bytes)

arkanoid-03.png (3705 bytes) arkanoid-01.png (2686 bytes) arkanoid-08.png (4198 bytes)

arkanoid-05.png (3176 bytes) arkanoid-04.png (2738 bytes) arkanoid-11.png (3854 bytes)


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