Prison-breaking is a Pong-like arcade game introduced by Atari in 1976.

In the game, the layer of 'bricks' lines a top third of the screen. a ball travels through the screen, 'bouncing' off a top & side bulwarks of the screen. Whenever a ball hits a brick, a ball bounces off & the brick disappears. a streaming video streaming video player loses a life whilst a ball touches a bottom of the screen, & to cease this from either happening, the player has a movable paddle that the ball may bounce polish off.

Gaolbreak utilized the black & white monitor. Nevertheless, a top a share of a monitor experienced tinted strips of transparent lesson laid on top it thus that the bricks appeared to become within color.

This astonishingly elementary however dockage game is the basis of unnumberable remaking, including Atari's have Super Breakout and Taito's Arkanoid.

Development
Prisonbreak, the discrete logic (non-microprocessor) game, was developed by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak, while he was listed by Hewlett-Packard.

Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs worked at Atari, and he enlisted Wozniak to project a game, which he neutralise quadruplet years. Jobs took credit for the operate & reportedly earned America$5000, however paid Wozniak just $350, which he said was half. [http://www.woz.org/letters/general/91.html]