Search 'Atari Breakout' in Google Image Search, Return to 1970s

Search 'Atari Breakout' in Google Image Search, Return to 1970s

Now, if you promise you won't do this in front of your boss, I'll let you in on a nice video game secret today: Go to Google image search, type in "Atari Breakout," and, well, see what happens. Yes, that's right, now you can play the old arcade and

Atari's Breakout turned 37 last month, and that apparently (but not unsurprisingly) is enough of an excuse for yet another Google easter egg. If you type 'Atari Breakout' into Google Images' search, instead of finding graphics of the classic game, the

In 1976, Atari released Breakout, an arcade game with a very simple premise: Using a pixelated paddle, gamers bashed a pixelated ball at a wall of pixelated bricks. If you knocked apart enough bricks, you won. Missed the ricocheting ball, and you lost.

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In 1976, Atari released Breakout, an arcade game with a very simple premise: Using a pixelated paddle, gamers bashed a pixelated ball at a wall of pixelated bricks. If you knocked apart enough bricks, you won. Missed the ricocheting ball, and you lost.