:whistle: I don't know if it is a case of muscle memory but Arkanoid is a breeze for me. I first played it as an arcade game at a pizzeria on my birthday and i put in close to $40 worth of quarters that night. I later played the game and Arkanoid Revenge of Doh at my nephews in the late 80's on the family pc. Arkanoid on the pc was a challenge for awhile but Revenge of Doh is much harder. The background on each level is in several colors with patterns that make it much more difficult to pick up the image of the ball. Also, the levels were much more challenging than the original Arkanoid. I bring this up because I purchased a floppy disk of Revenge of Doh that a friend burned to a cd for me. My computer is a toshiba laptop that uses dial up to connect to the internet. It would be my pleasure to donate this game to abandonia so that others could have the frustrating joy to tackle Arkanoid-Revenge of Doh. Are these floppy disks for the original game by Taito have some security that doesn't allow these games to be downloaded to other people or sites? How does a person download the game to Abandonia and because i am on dialup, how long would it take?
A tip to players......take advantage of your excellent hand/eye co-ordination to try and hit the ball on the pointed edges of the paddle so that the ball deflects on extreme angles to the sides so as to give you extra time to collect the dropping power bricks, to relax, and most importantly, many of the levels are best defeated by using that tactic.
I had problems setting up Dosbox and when I downloaded the test game i was unsuccessful. Also, on the final page of the tutorial, I've had problems. Nonetheless, I decided to download arkanoid and operation wolf and both successfully started up. I too don't have a pause capability which means I lose the game when the phone rings (which sucks when you've invested time deep into the game), nor do I have the music. Is this typical for others?
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