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Alleyway

1989
Game Boy Color
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color handheld
5th generation

History

Mario's head is the paddle in Alleyway. Nintendo's brick-breaker from the Game Boy's early shelf in 1989 follows the Breakout tradition of a ball, a wall of bricks, and a bat that has to keep the ball alive.

Bonus stages freeze the destruction and arrange bricks into pictures, including ships and creatures a player can clear for the shape rather than the score. The ball speeds up, and a missed return ends the ball just as it would in the arcade original.

Launch-window shelves needed a game anyone could read in a second. Bricks and a familiar face did that job, with Mario as the bat instead of a nameless rectangle.

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Klax 1989 · Game Boy / Game Boy Color
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Balloon Kid (1990) 1990 · Game Boy Color
Crystalis 1990 · NES / Game Boy Color
Dragon Quest III (1988) 1988 · NES / Game Boy Color
Milon's Secret Castle (1988) 1988 · Game Boy Color
Rampart (1990) 1990 · Game Boy Color
Super Mario Bros. 3 1988 · NES / SNES / Game Boy Color / Wii U / Nintendo 3DS / Wii
Toobin' 1988 · Game Boy Color
Dragon Quest II (1987) 1987 · NES / Game Boy Color
R-Type (1987) 1987 · Game Boy / Game Boy Color
Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 1987 · Game Boy Color

RAWG record

RAWG rating3.67 / 5

Ratings5

RAWG date1989-04-21

ESRB on RAWGNot listed

GenresArcade

DevelopersNot listed

PublishersNot listed

Platforms on RAWGnintendo-3ds, game-boy-color, game-boy

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