Great
video game where you have to use a
paddle shaped thing to bounce a
ball around an
arena, knocking out
bricks and getting all sorts of spiffy
power-ups that make your paddle
bigger,
smaller, causes the balls to reproduce, gives you trillions of balls, etc. Has a great sequel, Arkanoid II. This
game was ported to just about every
platform in existence; so far I've only played the
Apple IIgs version.
The game has an amusing story to it concerning spaceships and an evil being determined to rule the world, but that's just icing; this is really Atari's Breakout on steroids.