# Remember Arkanoid? It just got harder. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273 "2006-10-28T20:47:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/1 "2006-10-28T20:47:14Z")
[http://www.zanorg.com/prodperso/jeuxchiants/doublejeu.htm](http://www.zanorg.com/prodperso/jeuxchiants/doublejeu.htm) Your boss will thank me. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/2 "2006-10-28T20:55:00Z")
Of course, the directions are in French, which makes it so much more challenging… ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/3 "2006-10-28T21:07:43Z")
If you haven’t figured it out within 5 seconds of starting the game, knowing French probably wouldn’t have helped. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/4 "2006-10-28T21:08:32Z")
If you click the UK flag in the bottom left corner, it gives English instructions. ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/5 "2006-10-28T21:13:21Z")
I’m enjoying it in French. 🙂 I just got this message after finally breaking the 10 seconds barrier: C’est exactement le temps qu’a fait Paris Hilton, bravo! The sarcasm, it burns! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/6 "2006-10-28T21:14:47Z")
Jesus! Thanks a lot - now I’m addicted. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/7 "2006-10-28T21:17:51Z")
So how are you doing? My record stands at 25.487 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/8 "2006-10-28T21:21:58Z")
Best I can manage is about 21 seconds, after a few minutes of practice, but no doubt I could get that way up if I surrendered all my free time to it. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/9 "2006-10-28T21:34:35Z")
“Almost as smart as a poodle,” ten times more boring than one, and what seems to be lousy physics to boot. Blah. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/10 "2006-10-28T21:50:35Z")
Well I got to 30 seconds easily enough. It helps if you concentrate on balancing the ball and just monitor the other ball out of the corner of your eye. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/11 "2006-10-28T23:16:13Z")
I got up to 23 or 24 seconds. My SO made it to 28, though. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![Corporate\_Hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Corporate\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corporate_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/12 "2006-10-28T23:20:57Z")
This got passed around on Friday in the company e-mail. My best was 33 seconds. Very clever little game. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-arkanoid-it-just-got-harder/378273/13 "2006-10-29T14:55:56Z")
Good, now I can find out how and why I’m compared to Paris Hilton. But seriously, if you back up the URL, he has a lot of good games on that site.