## Description
_Smashout_ is a Breakout clone written for IBM PCs with monochrome displays.
In genre-typical fashion, the goal here is to dismantle a wall of bricks by
chipping away at it with a ball. Your paddle deflects the ball, and controls
its trajectory by striking it at different angles; you start out with five
balls, and lose one if it falls through the bottom of the screen.
You get your points for knocking down bricks: the brighter their color, the
more they’re worth. Since the game runs in 80-column text mode, and each brick
is a single character cell, there are considerably more bricks to destroy than
in most _Breakout_ variants. Another quirk is in the controls: the paddle
moves one step at a time, using different keys for smaller and larger steps.
Smashout