the cutting room mirror

Arkanoid II (NES)

To do:
There are two known beta versions.

Doh's at it again, so the Vaus spacecraft comes back to brick-break and destroy the evil Moai head.

Hidden Credit#

The RESET routine in this game uses the string MITSUGI to check if the game was soft or hard reset. This is the first name of main programmer Mitsugi Shimizu. Most interesting that this word writes in PPU memory and then checks after reset.

(Source: CaH4e3)

Level Skip#

During the game, hold A and press Start to skip the current level. Only works up to level 16.

(Source: ReyVGM)

References#


  1. Daiei Manufacturing - GDRI :: Game Developer Research Institute↩︎
  2. GDR ファミリーコンピュータ ソフト一覧 1988年 - FAMILY COMPUTER Software List 1988↩︎