TwinBlok

The Time Spinners do not look kindly on failure. They’ll yank your status,
terminate your entity, and zap you into the netherest of the nether regions.
Your journey begins when Executive Time Spinner (ol’ T.S., you know) drops you
ill-prepared and poorly armored into the fray, to fight off everything the
Razerrians …antiquated holdouts from the Snarr Sector… can drop, kick or
throw at you. Blast through their defenses, traverse the 50 levels of time
blocks they’ll use to impede your travel. They’ll tantalize you with pictures
from your home planet, hurl you through space, instead of merely time, and
dazzle you with nefarious patterns reminiscent of the arcades in the Neo-
Draconian Sector in a celebrated age long past.

As for other Break-out clone games, the basic plot is: BLAST IT! When you hit
the blocks, they explode, disappear, change your launchpad into something more
(or less!) functional, or alter the ‘ball’ in some beneficial – or nefarious –
way. The worst of these is the dreaded smiley. The smileys don’t do anything.
The ball metamorphoses into a cute, fluffy, and USELESS tennis-ball-like blob,
and won’t work on any of the blocks until it turns back into a blue piece.
Some of the blocks put a nasty spin on the ball, and there’s a magnetic block
that does exactly what you’d like it NOT to do. You can also add spin to the
ball by striking it on the move – just like with table tennis. The longer the
ball is in play, the faster it moves, and the less time you have to hit it.
Some effects are controlled by a timer, and will revert to their previous
state if you can outlast the time clock.

In Two-player mode, saves (and losses), and multiple-ball episodes, are twice
as much fun, and it’s only half as difficult to win. You can also play two-
player mode with one person! Just select the SAME input device for both
players in the setup menu.