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| Full title | Arkanoid |
| Year of release | 1987 |
| Publisher | Imagine Software Ltd (UK) |
| Re-released by | Erbe Software S.A. (Spain) The Hit Squad (UK) |
| Author(s) | Mike Lamb, Ronnie Fowles, Mark R. Jones |
| Tie-in licence | Taito Corporation (Japan) (arcade coin-op: Arkanoid) |
| Machine type | ZX Spectrum 48K |
| Number of players | 1 |
| Controls | Kempston, Interface 2 and Keyboard |
| Type | Arcade: Action |
| Message language | English |
| Original publication | Commercial |
| Original price | £7.95 875 ptas. |
| Budget price | £2.99 |
| Availability | Available as both Perfect TZX and non-TZX |
| Protection scheme | Multiple schemes (see individual downloads) |
| Additional info | Appeared on side A of the compilation 40 Principales Vol. 3, Los (Erbe Software S.A.)
Appeared on tape 2, side B of the compilation Dixons Premier Collection for Your +2 (Dixons) Appeared on side B of the compilation Dixons Premier Collection for Your +3 (Dixons) Appeared on the compilation Lingote, El (Erbe Software S.A.) Appeared on tape 1, side B of the compilation Magnificent Seven, The (Ocean Software Ltd) Appeared on tape 2, side B of the compilation Taito Coin-Op Hits (Imagine Software Ltd) Features a Breakout clone Also listed on Wikipedia, Freebase and Lost in Translation |
| Remarks | There also was an Arkanoid Editor. |
| Series | This game belongs in the following series:
1. Arkanoid 2. Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh |
| Other systems | This title was also advertised for and/or published on the Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, MSX and NES |
| Score |
8.26 (112 votes) 
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| Filename | Size | Type | Origin | Code | Barcode | D.L. | Year | Encoding scheme | ||
 | Arkanoid.tzx.zip | 23,612 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Original release | 5013156110795 | 1987 | SpeedLock 2 | |||
|  | Arkanoid.tap.zip | 22,365 | ((non-TZX) TAP tape image) | 1987 | |||||
| | Arkanoid(ErbeSoftwareS.A.).tzx.zip | 22,204 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Re-release | M-7783-1987 | 1987 | None | ||
| Arkanoid(different)(ErbeSoftwareS.A.).tzx.zip | 23,144 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Re-release | M-7783-1987 | 1988 | Unspecified custom loader | |||
| Arkanoid(TheHitSquad).tzx.zip | 28,338 | (Perfect TZX tape image) | Re-release | AC07 | 5013156410321 | 1990 | SpeedLock 5 |
| Filename | Size | Type | |
 | Arkanoid.gif | 3,920 | (Loading screen) |
| Arkanoid.scr | 6,912 | (Loading screen dump) |
| Arkanoid(ErbeSoftwareS.A.).gif | 1,187 | (Loading screen) |
| Arkanoid(ErbeSoftwareS.A.).scr | 6,912 | (Loading screen dump) |
| Arkanoid.gif | 3,547 | (In-game screen) | |
 | Arkanoid.txt | 4,616 | (English instructions) |
| Arkanoid(ErbeSoftwareS.A.).pdf | 18,174 | (Spanish instructions) |
| Arkanoid(ErbeSoftwareS.A.).txt | 2,611 | (Spanish instructions) |
| Arkanoid.png | 43,008 | (Game map) |
| Arkanoid.jpg | 387,481 | (Cassette inlay) | |
| Arkanoid(ErbeSoftwareS.A.).jpg | 59,788 | (Re-release cassette inlay) | |
| Arkanoid(TheHitSquad).jpg | 129,638 | (Re-release cassette inlay) | |
| Arkanoid.jpg | 248,763 | (Advertisement) | |
| Arkanoid_2.jpg | 255,250 | (Advertisement) | |
 | Arkanoid.ay.zip | 1,153 | (Ripped in-game and theme music in AY format) |
| Arkanoid.mp3.zip | 1,084,990 | (Sampled in-game and theme music in MP3 format) |
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| Title | Author | Year | Platform | Status |
| Darkernoid | Outhouse Software | 2001 | PC/Windows | available (shareware) (link dead?) |
| Super Noid | Christiaan Kras | 2002 | PC/Windows | in progress (link dead?) |
| Trikanoid | Triumph Remakers | 2012 | PC/Windows, MacOS | available |
| 5 player reviews [ View | Write one ] |
| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Popular Computing Weekly | 12.86 | page 107 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Crash | 3.87 | page 11 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 3.87 | page 8 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 3.87 | page 152 | (Review) | |
| Sinclair User | 3.87 | page 104 | (Preview) | [full page] |
| Crash | 4.87 | page 22 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 4.87 | page 46 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 4.87 | page 12 | (Preview) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 5.87 | page 17 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Crash | 5.87 | page 46 | (Letter) | [full page] |
| Crash | 5.87 | page 83 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Crash | 5.87 | page 83 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 5.87 | page 14 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Popular Computing Weekly | 5.87 | page 157 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 5.87 | page 15 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 5.87 | page 19 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 5.87 | page 36 | (Review) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 5.87 | page 37 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 6.87 | page 18 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 6.87 | page 33 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 6.87 | page 54 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Crash | 7.87 | page 52 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Crash | 7.87 | page 53 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 8.87 | page 51 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 8.87 | page 41 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| ACE | 10.87 | page 90 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 11.87 | page 10 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 12.87 | page 99 | (Feature) | [full page] |
| ACE | 1.88 | page 137 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ACE | 3.88 | page 99 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| ACE | 4.88 | page 98 | (Letter) | [full page] |
| ACE | 4.88 | page 113 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Crash | 4.88 | page 58 | (Feature - Crash Readers Awards) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 4.88 | page 29 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| ACE | 5.88 | page 105 | (News/Note) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 5.88 | page 15 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| ACE | 7.88 | page 31 | (Feature - Licence To Thrill?) | [full page] |
| YS Smash Tips | 8.88 | page 3 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| YS Smash Tips | 8.88 | page 4 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 11.88 | page 103 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Crash | 12.88 | page 44 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 12.88 | page 33 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 7.89 | page 26 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 8.89 | page 27 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 9.89 | page 38 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 2.90 | page 72 | (Feature - Your Sinclair 50th birthday!!!) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 5.90 | page 63 | (Review) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 6.90 | page 16 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Crash | 1.91 | page 57 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 2.91 | page 17 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 5.91 | page 17 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 7.91 | page 16 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Crash | 8.91 | page 49 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 11.91 | page 19 | (Tips) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 11.91 | page 19 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 11.91 | page 53 | (Hack/Poke) | [full page] |
| MicroHobby | 3.87 | page 18 | (Nuevo) | [full page] |
| MicroHobby | 3.87 | page 19 | (Consejos) | [full page] |
| MicroHobby | 6.87 | page 22 | (Tokes) | [full page] |
| MicroHobby | 6.87 | page 28 | (Justicieros) | [full page] |
| MicroHobby | 12.87 | page 39 | (Tokes) | [full page] |
| MicroHobby | 11.90 | page 64 | (Tokes) | [full page] |
| Magazine | Issue | Type | ||
| Crash | 3.87 | page 124 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 3.87 | page 116 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 3.87 | page 75 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Your Computer | 3.87 | page 84 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 3.87 | page 2 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 3.87 | page 52 | (CompoEntry) | [full page] |
| ZX Computing | 3.87 | page 92 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer Gamer | 4.87 | page 2 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Crash | 4.87 | page 131 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 4.87 | page 97 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 4.87 | page 72 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 4.87 | page 2 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 5.87 | page 113 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 5.87 | page 46 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 5.87 | page 99 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Crash | 6.87 | page 108 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 6.87 | page 120 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 6.87 | page 60 | (Full-page ad) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 6.87 | page 95 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 7.87 | page 113 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 7.87 | page 77 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 7.87 | page 43 | (CompoResult) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 8.87 | page 49 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 8.87 | page 46 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Crash | 9.87 | page 4 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Computer & Video Games | 9.87 | page 134 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 9.87 | page 2 | (Advert - on printed page-4) | [full page] |
| ACE | 10.87 | page 2 | (Advert) | [full page] |
| Crash | 1.90 | page 53 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 1.90 | page 82 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 1.90 | page 90 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Crash | 3.90 | page 4 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 3.90 | page 91 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Crash | 4.90 | page 49 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 4.90 | page 25 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 4.90 | page 14 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Crash | 5.90 | page 49 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 5.90 | page 65 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Crash | 6.90 | page 49 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Sinclair User | 6.90 | page 59 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
| Your Sinclair | 6.90 | page 62 | (Advert - The Hit Squad advert) | [full page] |
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