Blockout is an arcade developed by Logical Design Works, released 1 October 1989 on Atari Lynx, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Nintendo Entertainment System and Amiga. The main story takes about 30 min to finish.
What Blockout is
Blockout is an arcade game developed by Logical Design Works and released in 1989. It was published by Acclaim Japan. It is available on Atari Lynx, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Apple IIGS, Arcade, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Mac, PC-8800 Series and Web browser.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Blockout is a puzzle videogame, created in 1989 by Polish developer - California Dreams, designed by Aleksander Ustaszewski and Mirosław Zabłocki. The game is the logical extension of Tetris into the third dimension. In Tetris, the player manipulates a set of tetrominoes which fall into a two-dimensional pit (seen from the side). The aim is to solve a real-time packing problem by forming complete rows, which then disappear and score points. Poor play leads to incomplete rows, caused by inefficient arrangements of tiles; these rows do not disappear, giving the player progressively less space and less time to play subsequent pieces. Similarly, in Blockout, the player manipulates a set of…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 30 min. Completing everything takes closer to 1 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Blockout launched on 1 October 1989, within three weeks of Disney's DuckTales, SimCity and Shadow of the Beast.
Released around the same time: Disney's DuckTales, SimCity, Shadow of the Beast.
Official trailer
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