You cannot compare the 2D and 3D Arkanoid's as the game play is poles apart. These are in my opinion the nirvana of brick busting games, in particular the first one, which although dated continues to spring surprises on you throughout the game. I just thought I’d add them in just in case you were tempted to buy any Arkanoid's. The first lists (both 2D and 3D) below are not free though (apart from those I mention as freeware). If you are new to the arcade games world I would suggest you check out the following arkanoid/breakout titles all of which offer something different than the usual game. Though at the time of their release I thought they were all out of this world. I sometimes wonder how I could have spent so much money (and time) playing those original games as they were very basic especially now when you see some of the brilliant clones that they spawned. Looking back on those games many of which you can now get freeware from sites like My Abandonware. The university students union had a small darkened area cordoned off, called ' The Cave', where you could play all the early classics. I played the original and its sequel to distraction in my local hostelry via those cabinet games that are now selling to collectors for thousands of pounds (one of my dreams would be for an arcade full of those old games and must include all the classic pinball machines much like Flynn's Arcade from the movie TRON, ) then a decade later in 1986 I loved Taito’s arcade follow-up to Amiga's breakout game ARKANOID (1987) and it's sequel ARKANOID: REVENGE OF DOH (1989) All of which I spent a small fortune on in the mid 70's to the late 80's whenever I visited a game arcade especially while serving in the British Army overseas in my local NAFFI and Toc H clubs and later when I went to university as a mature student in the 80's. Ball breaking games have always be amongst my favourite arcade games ever since the inception of the original breakout game called Breakout by Atari (1976) that is available to play via various browser sites now, plus you can get the sequel Super Breakout free HERE (1979) it does require DOSBox to work. There are many arkanoid/breakout clones available today, though most in my opinion are run of the mill sorts however there are the occasional jewels amongst the pieces of fake jewellery to be found. I've included the free commercial games available from GameTop and FreeGamePick though technically they are not freeware as elsewhere you do have to pay for them. (There are loads more but most are all sub par in my opinion). I posted the full review over in the comments section HERE by mistake (where you can also see the communities opinions of the game) so I'm not going to repost it here, though I thought I would add the notes section as it contains all the freeware arkanoids that in my opinion are worth downloading. The following is part of my post made in the forums in response to Elefun’s3D arkanoid/Brick buster giveaway Egyptian Ball, though it's been substantially extended.
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