Alleyway
Alleyway is a Game Boy game published by Nintendo in 1989. It is based on classic ball-and-paddle arcade games in the style of Breakout and Arkanoid. more...
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It was a launch title for the Game boy both in Japan and North America, and along with Super Mario Land marks Mario's first appearance on the Game Boy.
Gameplay
The player controls a small pad that has to keep a ball from falling from the playing field, bouncing it against a number of bricks.
Each time a ball hits a brick, it disappears, and the ball riccochets in a different direction. When all the bricks are done, the player goes to the next level, where the same pattern of bricks appears, with a different theme to the gameplay (after each bonus level, the brick pattern changes):
Version 1: The bricks are stationary.
Version 2: Rows of the bricks will move left and/or right, depending on the brick pattern.
Version 3: Very similar to version 1, but with a twist. As time goes on, the bricks and the ceiling drop lower and lower, based off the number of times the ball hits the paddle (not at a fixed rate). The bricks will vanish if they go far enough down the screen.
Every fourth round is a bonus level, themed off various mario icons such as Mario himself or a Pirana Plant. Unlike previous levels, the brick will actually pass through the blocks, cutting through them without riccochet. In these levels there is also a timer present, and the round ends once either the timer expires or all bricks are cleared (clearing all bricks yields bonus points).
The paddle's speed can be controlled by holding the B button (slow down) or the A button (speed up). After finishing 100 levels, the game loops back to the beginning.
See Also
Internal Links
List of Mario games;
External Links
Official Nintendo Japan Website;
Alleyway review 33% awarded from Mean Machines Archive;
Alleyway at MobyGames;
Read more at Wikipedia.org
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