Play the classic brick breaker arcade game free online in your browser. Use the paddle and ball to smash all the bricks. No download, no sign-up required.
Control a paddle at the bottom of the screen, moving it left and right to keep a ball in play. The ball bounces off the paddle, walls, and ceiling, breaking any brick it touches. Some bricks require multiple hits to destroy. Power-ups fall from destroyed bricks and must be caught with the paddle to activate. The level clears when all breakable bricks are gone. If the ball falls below the paddle, you lose a life.
Where the ball strikes the paddle affects its departure angle. Hitting near the edges sends the ball at a steep angle; the center sends it nearly straight up. Use angled returns to aim at clusters of bricks in corners that the ball would not naturally reach. Keeping the ball near the top of the field for extended periods, known as camping the ceiling, is the most efficient way to clear bricks without relying on precise paddle positioning every bounce.
Brick-breaking games descend directly from Brick Breaker, designed by Steve Wozniak and released in 1976 by an early arcade pioneer. An early arcade company had tasked Steve Jobs with building the game, and he subcontracted the circuit design to Wozniak. The game became one of the defining arcade experiences of its era and inspired Taito's Arkanoid in 1986, which introduced power-ups and the tube-shaped playing field. Countless browser versions have carried the genre forward, and the essential mechanic has not meaningfully changed in nearly fifty years.