Megaball
Megaball is an Arkanoid variant with 50 levels, plus a level designer in
the registered version, which inspired the DX-Ball series. The basic gameplay
involves using a paddle to hit an arrangement of blocks, with the aim being to
remove them all. There is an area above the blocks – getting the ball into
this can cause a shot to remove lots of balls quickly.
Like any Arkanoid-style game, there are power-ups, which are released by
hitting particular blocks, and must be caught using the paddle. They include a
bigger paddle, laser guns mounted onto each side of the paddle (making it
quicker to remove the blocks) and a level-skip, but watch out for the ‘kill
player’ icon. Not all bricks clear with one hit, and some remain on the screen
but in a different colour to show that they’ve been hit.