Plastic Balls is a swell Flash-based breakout game from Plastic Martians, a.k.a. Matt Folkard. It’s of the circular breakout variety. Folkard is a free-lance Flash designer based in Manchester, England.

Game Play

If you know how to play Breakout, particularly circular Breakout — where your paddle is in the center and you bounce the ball outward to the bricks around the circumference (or vice versa) — you know how to play Plastic Balls.

Buried in the various bricks are lots of fruit (which you hit with your paddle for extra points), and several power ups which do things like reverse gravity or enlarge your paddle or similar things. There are also bombs in the bricks. These are good bombs, so don’t worry; hit them with your paddle and the ball becomes a bomb that blows up when it hits the next brick, destroying several bricks.

Graphics and Sound

It’s fairly simple but effective Flash graphics, with adequate sound effects and a nicely annoying humming noise in the background.

Bottom Line

Nothing new but still fun for a while.

Plastic Balls Screenshots

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