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Reviews for Smashout!! (#4578)

Review by WhenIWasCruel on 01 Dec 2016 (Rating: 2)

Smashout! ! [Pirate Software]
A simple Breakout clone with a not very fast paddle.
2,5/5

Review by Alessandro Grussu on 18 Sep 2021 (Rating: 1)

Appalling rip-off of Breakout with 1982-style graphics, nasty sound effects and atrocious collision detection.

For some unknown reason, when the ball hits the first brick it is reduced the size of a dot and doubles its speed so that it becomes impossible to catch, and even if you do, the collision detection is so idiosyncratic that it will pass through the bat.

If you press BREAK when the so-called "music" plays on the title screen, you will enter the BASIC management program. Press it thereafter, and the Spectrum will reset. Well, I think that it fits with the general crudeness of the game.