Bricks

This is a mysterious and probably unfinished game, a Breakout clone with appealing graphics, but with no scores and only a single level, though the colored tiles are placed randomly each game. If you lose all your three balls, new ones keep popping up; if you clear the level, nothing special happens either.

There is no help menu or about box, only if you look inside the executable you find the string Brick – a breakout game, copyright 1990 by Curt Johnson. The window bar, however, shows the name Bricks, while the executable is again named BRICK.EXE.

But mysteries and unfinishedness aside, Brick(s) is a very well done and within its limits entertaining game. Not astonishing, for unless there were two Curt Johnsons writing Windows games around 1990, it was created by the co-author of one of the most popular games of all times, Minesweeper.

Steckbrief

• Concept: Breakout
• Author: Curt Johnson
• Year: 1990
• Country of Origin:

Download

• Bricks (5 kB, ZIP)