Alleyway
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| Original title | ア レ イ ウ ェ イ |
| transcription | Areiwei |
| Studio | Nintendo Research & Development 1 , Intelligent Systems |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| composer | Kenji Yamamoto |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
 April 21, 1989 August 11, 1989 September 28, 1990  |
| platform | Game Boy |
| Game mode | Single player |
| medium | Game module |
| language | English |
Alleyway ( Japanese : ア レ イ ウ ェ イ , Hepburn : Areiwei ) is a video game developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 in cooperation with Intelligent Systems and published on April 21, 1989 in Japan, on August 11, 1989 in North America and on September 28 1990 was published in Europe by Nintendo as a launch title exclusively for the Game Boy .
On June 6, 2011, the game was released as part of the Virtual Console offer for the Nintendo eShop of Nintendo 3DS .
Gameplay
The gameplay of Alleyway is similar to that of Breakout : The player controls a paddle from left to right with the Game Boy's control pad . With the A button, a ball (represented by twelve pixels ) can be thrown into the playing field, which ricochets off the paddle. In the upper section of the playing field there are blocks that disappear from the playing field when they are touched with the ball and let the ball ricochet off you. The player gets points by destroying the blocks. If there are no more blocks on the field, a new level begins, in which the blocks either move, move downwards (comparable to the aliens from Space Invaders ) or are arranged differently. The game contains a total of 32 levels, every fourth of which is a bonus level in which the player has 90 seconds to destroy all blocks (the blocks do not let the ball ricochet off of them in these levels, so they only have to be "collected" ). If the ball falls past the paddle, the game loses a life. He gets a life when he has collected a certain number of points. You can carry a maximum of nine lives with you.
reception
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The German-language computer game magazine Power Play rated the game with 48%. AllGame rated the game with 3.5 out of a total of 5 stars.
Trivia
Lives are represented in the game with Super Mario heads.
The blocks in the bonus levels are always arranged on the field so that they look like opponents from the Super Mario games.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Alleyway on GameFAQs
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Nintendo R & D1 Games. In: IGN . July 2, 2015, accessed January 6, 2020 .
- ↑ INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD. August 25, 2008, accessed January 6, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Power Tests: Video Game - Alleyway . In: Power Play . No. 04/90 , April 1990, pp. 45 ( kultboy.com [accessed January 6, 2020]).
- ↑ a b Alleyway Review. In: allgame. November 14, 2014, accessed January 6, 2020 .