Aquanoid 2 Gold

Aquanoid History

In 1982 it all started with the plan to realize own programs on an Atari 800 and a tape recorder. The road was steep and trudge and full of throwbacks. In the smaller part of Germany it was not easy to be a programmer because documents and programming brochures were subject to West Germany. According to that situation, the first results in BASIC of the game turned out to be exceedingly modest. Eventually we managed to create the first `Aquanoid´ for the Atari 800.

Aquanoid had a `moveable paddle´ and a `ball´, but there were no bricks available, yet. You could say it was more of a `Pong®´ variant than a breakout game (picture 1). We added the missing bricks in it´s successor which was released in November 1982. Despide the game was still programmed in BASIC and did not look very gaudily it spread extremely fast among the Atari fans in the GDR. It had a highscore, you could lose paddles and there were a could of levels included. For a game programmed in BASIC it was quite decent, but there were already better ones available (picture 2).

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For above reasons we started to work on a version that was programmed in Assembler only. Unfortunately it never reached market maturity. In 1985-86 after several other games had been programmed by the programmer, he started to work on another Aquanoid. This time he decided to use a programming language that could keep up the professional standards - ACTION!

Action! was a revolutionary C-like professional programming language for the old Atari computers. Games there were programmed in Action! are still played frequently by several people today.
Everything that was programmed before came up out of free time as hobby projects. After due consideration we decided to programm professionally because by that time computers became more and more important in the GDR. For this reason the name of the game had to be changed several times: `Aquanoid´, `Barknoid´, `Barkanoid´, - `Galaxy Barkonid´ - each of this versions was purchasable. Today, only very few originals of those product remain in circulation. Visit www.magnussoft.com/barkanoid3g to take a look at one of them.

`Aquanoid´ mtook a "small break" of 9 years! After those years we started to work on `Aquanoid´ for personal computers. Because of problems with the specific name of similar products on the marked we decided to rename the almost ready `Aquanoid´ in `Break it´. We did this to avoid confusion among our customers (picture 3). Break It was released in 1999 - it turned out to be a big success. Due to the big success of `Break it´ we worked on a new `Aquanoid´ that was finally released in 2001 - `Aquanoid Gold´ (picture 4). Beatiful hand pixelated backgrounds imply a true underwater flair for the first time.

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In 2004 another `Aquanoid´ was released. `Aquarnoid 2´ visuals were even more beatiful than before. The name had to be sligtly changed due to small disputes with a competing software distributor. Aquarnoid 2 with its stunning artworks was a big hit (picture 5).

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Soon the fanbase demanded a new Aquanoid. Over the years magnussoft could not overlook the demand for another Aquanoid. `Aquanoid 2 Gold´ brings new variants of gameplay in a very detailed setting. Aquanoid 2 Gold offers 50 different extras and bonuses, three kinds of difficulty levels, six beautiful layouts for the bricks and lots of other features.
Plunge into the deep blue oceans and secure yourself a place in the highscore (picture 6) (picture 7)!

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