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This is a playable Atari Breakout game built within an Observable notebook, a web-based coding environment. Players control a paddle to bounce a ball and break bricks on screen, using classic Breakout mechanics. It's… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. An Atari Breakout Clone in an Observable Notebook launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hi HN ! This is an open source project I've been working on for a while. It's actually the third breakout-like game I've built. I really like the simplicity of the concept, having just one input (the puck horizontal position) and a simple gameplay that gives a low skill floor. My girlfriend and I played a lot of the excellent LBreakoutHD, an open source breakout game that follows the traditional formula of having multiple lives, scoring points by breaking bricks and catching the good upgrades that spawn randomly and fall down, while avoiding bad upgrades. She liked this game because it is…

    2025 · breakout.lecaro.me · its alternatives →

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    2018 · beta.observablehq.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn how classic game hardware worked. Write code and see it run instantly.

    2016 · 8bitworkshop.com · its alternatives →

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    Arcade 2.0▲1,026

    The easiest way to showcase your product

    2022 · arcade.software · its alternatives →

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    Simple retro paddle arcade game written in Javascript, using good ol' Canvas.

    2024 · raould.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I made many small web games in the past with Unity or Phaser. But this time I wanted to make something completely on my own. So I coded a basic game framework in plain JavaScript, and used it to make Almost Pong. This was a really fun project that taught me a lot about JavaScript, and I plan to make more minimalist games with this framework. Interesting fact: Almost Pong doesn't load any assets, all sprites and sounds are generated with code. Happy to answer questions, and please let me know if you have any feedback on the game. Thanks!

    2022 · lessmilk.com · its alternatives →

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    Multiplayer FPS game - Counter-Strike: Football 🏉. Contribute to solcloud/Counter-Strike development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    RetroTick parses PE/NE/MZ binaries, emulates an x86 CPU, and stubs enough Win32/Win16/DOS APIs to run classics like FreeCell, Minesweeper, Solitaire and QBasic, entirely in the browser. Built with Preact + Vite + TypeScript. Demo: https://retrotick.com GitHub: https://github.com/lqs/retrotick

    Feb 2026 · retrotick.com · its alternatives →

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    Idea: How about a 5 minute game I can play in my browser and it's actually fun to play. Controls: Mouse or keyboard (left/right, left alt/right alt or A/D), space and esc are pause toggle. Page up / Page Down are next or previous level (if already unlocked). Cheats: Z toggles zapper, M toggles magnets. Debug stuff: I, P, E keys are toggles for various stuff (E lets you change some aspects of physics engine). Game is maybe playable on mobile devices, there is a menu on top right, and then click the circle to select type of control. Physical engine is decoupled from refresh…

    Jul 2026 · brontosaurusrex.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Adventures in hardware hacking, low-level software, FPGAs, and more!

    2019 · craigjb.com · its alternatives →

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    Play the Atari Breakout game online for free—no downloads.

    2025 · ataribreakoutgame.com · its alternatives →

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    AtariVCS▲272

    Reinventing the way you game. Again.

    2018 · atari.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I hacked together this fun project that lets you play any article on the front page of Hacker News as an interactive text game. You can create a game about anything by going to infinityarcade.com/ You can also use a URL, which is what this page uses. The whole thing is open source: https://github.com/themaximal1st/InfinityArcade

    2023 · infinityarcade.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Over the past ~1.5 years, I built an open-source FPGA retro emulation handheld that can play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges. To my knowledge, there isn't an existing open-source FPGA emulator that can play physical cartridges like this. One of my main goals was to do all of the pieces myself, and be able to understand every component of it, so I designed my own PCB, wrote the firmware, wrote a Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulator for the FPGA (using the Chisel HDL), and designed a 3D-printed case. I detailed the design and development process in the…

    2025 · eli.lipsitz.net · its alternatives →

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    A decentralized Brick Breaker game 🎮

    2018 · blkbreakout.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Straude▲155

    Just like how Strava made running more social & fun, Straude connects you to other motivated Claude Code builders so you can share your wins, encourage each other, and climb the token usage leaderboard! This was my submission to the Built with Opus 4.6: a Claude Code hackathon: https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/claude-code-hackathon

    Apr 2026 · straude.com · its alternatives →

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    Be a Ninja and Break Out!

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A while back I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator (which is considered the Hello, World! of emulators and is more accurately a virtual machine since historically CHIP-8 was an interpreted language running on top of the COSMAC VIP to make game programming easier). But a few months ago I got really interested in embedded software, so decided it would be neat to port my emulator to a STM32 MCU and design a console around it as a learning experience, since CHIP-8 never existed as a physical system. I didn't know much about embedded software when I began, and even less about electronics, but I managed to…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bomp▲55

    Pinball meets breakout!

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A 2D shoot 'em up game made with Go, Ebitengine, and donburi. Featuring ECS (Entity Component System). - m110/airplanes

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I always enjoy reading posts about indie game development and looking at the source code of games other people have built. So for any game I release I naturally I want to do the same. https://github.com/Mknsri/HockeySlam Hockey Slam is a hockey shootout game on Android which I built almost from scratch. Some of the engine features include 3D graphics with PBR materials, a rudimentary physics system, replays, a multithreaded job system and a hot-reload DLL platform for developing on Windows. I detailed the creation of the game in it's own post, but now that time has passed…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    I got tired of sharing AI demos with terminal screenshots or screen recordings. Claude Code already stores full session transcripts locally as JSONL files. Those logs contain everything: prompts, tool calls, thinking blocks, and timestamps. I built a small CLI tool that converts those logs into an interactive HTML replay. You can step through the session, jump through the timeline, expand tool calls, and inspect the full conversation. The output is a single self-contained HTML file — no dependencies. You can email it, host it anywhere, embed it in a blog post, and it works on mobile. Repo:…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    CHIP-8 console on FPGA. Contribute to pwmarcz/fpga-chip8 development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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