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Videocart-17: Pinball Challenge

Although the title of the game may lead players to believe it's a pinball game, this is actually a Breakout variant. The basic gameplay features the player bouncing a ball off of a paddle into a wall of…

1 March 1978

Videocart-17: Pinball Challenge is an arcade developed by Fairchild Semiconductor, released 1 March 1978 on Fairchild Channel F.

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What Videocart-17: Pinball Challenge is

Videocart-17: Pinball Challenge is an arcade game developed by Fairchild Semiconductor and released in 1978. It is available on Fairchild Channel F only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Although the title of the game may lead players to believe it's a pinball game, this is actually a Breakout variant. The basic gameplay features the player bouncing a ball off of a paddle into a wall of bricks, chipping them off one brick at a time. Each brick destroyed earns the player points with the low green bricks being worth 1 point each, the middle blue bricks being worth 4 points each, and the red bricks on top rewarding 7 points each. Once the ball bounces off the wall of bricks, it's up to the player to maneuver the paddle under the falling ball in order to hit it back up into the wall of bricks. The player loses a life if he happens to miss hitting the ball with his paddle and it…
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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.

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When did Videocart-17: Pinball Challenge come out?
Videocart-17: Pinball Challenge was released on 1 March 1978 for Fairchild Channel F.

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