A very short entry for a title which was closed as quickly as it was added. Breaker was a cool breakout clone produced for Radarsoft in 1987, but what seems to be a title which is complete and fully released, no-one seems to have seen it on the C64 in physical form.
Could it be that this version was never actually released properly, and leaked instead by crackers? Interestingly a MSX edition was released, and we have added the cover. So did the C64 get a release or not?
Johan Ahlberg originally picked up the game back in 1989 when he was 9-yrs old and found it on a set of cracked turbo tapes. It was on his travels trying to find a real copy of the game in 2014, that he couldn’t actually find anything and thus kick-started a search.
CASE CLOSED – Confirmed as released (albeit maybe limited form) by Marco Das. Photo of original disk added to scans. There are pictures of the released game also here and here.
Contributions: Johan Ahlberg, Marco Das, Asphodel
Supporting content
Available downloads
- Game_Breaker (zip)
Gallery
Update history
11/04/24 – Added links to released version in Retrocollector thanks to Asphodel.
This is also proof it was released and that the box-art was indeed the same as the MSX version:
[FRANK – Moved links into main page]
Thanks Asphodel! I’ll add links into the post with credit to yourself!
sorry for asking, but is that actually an official disk? Are not the “Fantasic-Four” some crackers? Just wondering.
I did find something interesting by accident while searching for something different;
https://archive.org/details/asm-special-01-1988/page/n15/mode/1up?q=+radarsoft
look on page 29. (and yes, I am not sure what the date of this magazine is, but I could have sworn it says somewhere 1988)
Surprise!!!
Hi Edwin, yeah – it is an official disk. The Fantastic Four are just referring to those involved on the game, as detailed here: http://www.gamebase64.com/game.php?id=1099&d=18&h=0
Great find with the review! Originally we thought the game was never released, but the update from Marco confirmed it and meant we could close the case.
Hi Frank,
I have an orginal disk, but only the disk. Snapshot coming to you.