brick breaker

brick breaker

English

Noun

Screenshot of the freeware brick breaker game LBreakout.

brick breaker (plural brick breakers)

1. (video games) A game of a genre that involves moving a paddle horizontally or vertically to deflect a ball, using the deflected ball to destroy an arrangement of bricks on the screen.
   • 2000, "NewestShareware.com", NewestShareware.com Issue #105 (on newsgroup alt.comp.shareware)

     A brick-breaker kind of game featuring musical symbols (rests and notes), an elephant, and a ball!

   • 2005, "Jean-Yves Lefort", ports/76484: New port: games/tecnoballz, a brick breaker (on newsgroup mailing.freebsd.ports-bugs)

     Synopsis: New port: games/tecnoballz, a brick breaker (Arkanoid-like game)

   Synonym: brick-buster