Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
Aquanoid is a well-known Ball and Paddle game. The meaning of the game is to keep the ball in the game using your paddle and to hit as much blocks as possible. When you did that, you can go to the next level.
The graphics are nice. They could have been better, sometimes you can see the pixels but that's what you can expect of a DOS game. The gameplay and sounds are very nice too, so playing this game must be fun.
Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
Aquanoid is a strategy ball and paddle game that is similar to the numerous clones of the same type. The most notable, and likely the grandfather of them all, is the original Breakout from the Atari systems of the eighties. Other notables are Tronic, Pong, and of course, Arkanoid, which Aquanoid is so plainly named after. Aquanoid was created, or cloned as it happened, in the early to middle nineties, and really offers nothing new or notable to the genre of ball and bat games.
Like the other games of this nature, Aquanoid will present the user with a variety of levels filled with colored bricks…all in different arrangements to make the levels more interesting. Most of the bricks are destructible, but some are not, which is one way Aquanoid manages to vary its approach. The user will control a small paddle at the bottom of the screen that can be used to strike a bouncing ping-pong like ball back and forth at the bricks above it. As the ball strikes the bricks, they are destroyed and removed from play. The object is to destroy all the bricks on any given level to advance to the next. The user loses a life if the ball manages to sneak past his paddle as it moves horizontally across the bottom of the playing field. As is common with games of this nature, there are a variety of powerups that are occasionally released when a ball strikes a brick in the field. The user will be able to launch multiple balls into play at one time, making the destruction of the bricks go much faster. It also makes it much less imperative to catch the balls bouncing rapidly at the paddle, since there are numerous balls in play and the gamer will only lose a life if all balls land out of bounds. The funniest thing about this particular power up is the sudden moment of confusion when the gamer can’t decide which of two approaching balls to return, and ends up losing them both. Other notable power ups include a gun with which to shoot destructible blocks, and a very handy feature that lengthens the paddle, making it easier to return balls.
Overall, Aquanoid is a shareware version of a game that most everyone is familiar with. It really isn’t any better or worse than the others, featuring the same graphics and mundane lack of sound. If this type of game is your thing, however, and you have yet to find one of the others, Aquanoid is as good as the rest and will certainly fill a hole in your collection of games.
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