Title: ARKANOID™ Live!
Publisher: Taito
Developer: Taito
Availability: 2009
Price: TBD

Arkanoid, the block-breaking masterpiece now for Xbox LIVE Arcade!

First appearing in the 1980’s as a new style block-breaking game, ARKANOID, appears on Xbox LIVE Arcade having accomplished even further evolution. Enjoy Arkanoid in high-definition with beautifully choreographed background movies and background music. Loaded with 120 stages in all and colorful cooperative and versus modes.

Game Features:

As part of “TAITO’s Collection Series”, in which Taito’s masterpiece games are remade, ARKANOID is remade with even cooler background movies and sound and loaded with colorful game modes. Within the simplistic block-breaking game element, and beyond effects incurred by items and the appearance of enemies, several kinds of new bosses appear in the final stage.

* New Visuals and Music: Block-breaking is rendered cooler than ever with ARKANOID’s inorganic interpretation of our world through cool background graphics and new background music.
* 120 Stages of Block-Breaking: Even including stages from the past ARKANOID series, compete for the high-score and/or record clear time in all 120 stages with leaderboards score.
* Abundant Game Customization: Barrier Type or Player Stock Type game play? A Player 1 and Player 2 collaboration? Customize your game play for variety enjoyment.
* VS Mode Play: Heat up your CPU or Local 2Player and Live Play VS play with two rules.
o - Bust All Battle Mode – The player who breaks all the blocks first wins
o - Bust Color Battle Mode – The player who breaks all the color blocks designated to them wins.