Underplayed Gems

Cool Bricks (1999)

Cool Bricks cover
Developer
Pukka Games
Platforms
Game Boy Color
Genres
Strategy

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How it feels

A Breakout-style brick-breaker loaded with 160 levels, varied weapons, and unpredictable power-ups.

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About

Cool Bricks is a puzzle game that requires the player to use a bat to guide a ball to break bricks to progress. Compared to Breakout, Cool Bricks features the inclusion of varied weapons, such as laser guns, missiles, grenade launchers, larger bats or multiple balls, and the addition of power-ups with positive and negative effects, such as a 'poison mode' that creates involuntary player movement. The game features 160 levels with a password system to allow for returning to certain stages.

Screenshots

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.