Atari Universal Sign Multi-Picture Deal For Atari Games
Universal Pictures, Atari, and Entertainment 360 have signed a deal to develop ten classic Atari games into big-scale action-adventure films, with the first project based on a screenplay by Matt Reilly and Carl Hampe. The list of games slated for adaptation includes Asteroids, Adventure, Berzerk, Breakout, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong, and Yars’ Revenge, signaling a new wave of legacy IP being brought to the big screen.
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About Breakout
Breakout is a 1976 action video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades; in Japan, it was released by Namco. The game was designed by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow and prototyped via discrete logic chips by Steve Wozniak with assistance from Steve Jobs. In the game, eight rows of bricks line the top portion of the screen, and the player's goal is to destroy the bricks by repeatedly bouncing a ball off a paddle into them. The concept was predated by Ramtek's Clean Sweep (1974), but the game's designers were influenced by Atari's own Pong (1972). The arcade version of Breakout uses a monochrome display underneath a translucent colored overlay.
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