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Alleyway

Interstellar ping-pong with a deadly energy ball! Your spaceship is at the gate of the Alleyway. Use your vessel to repel the energy ball. Atomize space grids with your return shots. Destroy the entire field…

50 21 April 1989

Alleyway is an arcade developed by Intelligent Systems, released 21 April 1989 on Nintendo 3DS and Game Boy.

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What Alleyway is

Alleyway is an arcade game developed by Intelligent Systems and released in 1989. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and Game Boy.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Interstellar ping-pong with a deadly energy ball! Your spaceship is at the gate of the Alleyway. Use your vessel to repel the energy ball. Atomize space grids with your return shots. Destroy the entire field and move on to even more challenging targets. You're in command in the Alleyway!
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Alleyway holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did Alleyway come out?
Alleyway was released on 21 April 1989 for Nintendo 3DS and Game Boy.

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