Played as part of Atari 50. 2600 version.

Thought this was worse than the arcade version due to the control scheme, but I stand corrected, the 2600 did have a paddle controller. Even though it wasn't used for much, it was used here, so my opinion on it is basically the same as the arcade version. No ricochet still sucks and you gotta play a few levels of the new Neo Breakout first to unlock this version and, wow it is night and day seeing what would normally be a middle-of-the-road modern brick breaker right next to this.

Played as part of Atari 50. Arcade version.

Doesn't have ricochet so it's kinda busted. Has novelty value but don't expect to be able to clear it (even with mouse controls) due to that tiny paddle. Definitely worse purely by nature of other, better versions of this idea existing not very long after this one, but for the time it makes sense that it doesn't really have any real sort of collision system allowing for a ball to hit more than one brick each bounce. But playing this nowadays is like going back to old versions of Tetris and realizing they don't have hard drop, lol