Nervous Brickdown is a breakout clone

Breakout clone

A Breakout clone is a sub-class of the "bat-and-ball" genre introduced with the Magnavox Odyssey's Tennis and Atari's Pong...

 video game developed by the French team Arkedo Studio

Arkedo Studio

Arkedo Studio is a French independent video game developer, founded in 2006 by Camille Guermonprez and Aurélien Régard. The company released their first game, Nervous Brickdown for the Nintendo DS, in 2007. They followed that game with 2009's Big Bang Mini—also for DS, and then later OMG: Our Manic...

 and published by Eidos Interactive

Eidos Interactive

Eidos Interactive Ltd. is a British video game publisher and is a label of Square Enix Europe. As an independent company Eidos plc was headquartered in the Wimbledon Bridge House in Wimbledon, London Borough of Merton....

 for the Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS

The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...

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Game modes

The game features three different modes: Arcade, which is a succession of levels set in 10 different worlds; Multi, which allows up to two players to play the game together, and Shuffle, which chooses five levels randomly for the player to play.

Trivia

The game has won the "best portable console game for 2007" award from the Festival du Jeu Vidéo (an annual video gaming festival set up in Paris).

Reception

• IGN 7.9 out of 10 (79%)
• GameSpot 7.5 out of 10 (75%)

External links

• Official Site (International)
• A interview conducted by a French video game journalist during the development of Nervous Brickdown (French)