Paul Donaldson was an Atari programmer, and his game on this site is Bionic Breakthrough, an unreleased prototype from 1984. It reworks Super Breakout for the MindLink, a headband controller that picked up small movements of the forehead muscles. Because the MindLink was hard to control precisely, the paddle is longer, and two cooperative variations replace the children’s games. Atari dropped the controller after poor tests, so the game was never sold.
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Bionic Breakthrough is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype programmed by Paul Donaldson at Atari in 1984. It is a reworked version of Super Breakout, made to show off the MindLink, a headband controller that Atari never brought to…
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