Mac Brick Out

Mac Brick Out is a classic Macintosh take on Brick Out, the venerable paddle-and-ball brick-breaking game first popularized on the Apple II. It bounces a ball off a player-controlled paddle into a wall of bricks at the top of the screen, clearing them one hit at a time in the lineage of Atari's Breakout.

Brick-breaking gameplay

Move the paddle left and right along the bottom of the playfield to keep the ball alive. Each brick the ball strikes disappears and adds to your score, while a missed ball costs a turn.

Apple II roots

The title openly traces its design back to Brick Out for the Apple II, an early home-computer rendition of the arcade Breakout pattern. Like many Mac shareware titles of the era, it brings a familiar 8-bit gameplay loop to the black-and-white Mac desktop.

Quick and lightweight

As with the Apple II original, the appeal here is immediacy: a single screen, simple controls, and a steadily emptying brick wall, with no ramp-up time before play begins.