Question about Breakaway IV

[+atari2600land]

Where's Breakaway III, Breakaway II and Breakaway I? Are they on a different console or something? Just wondering.

[+FujiSkunk]

Where's Breakaway III, Breakaway II and Breakaway I? Are they on a different console or something?

 

The IV in the title was a reference to the fact four people can play at once. There were no Breakaway I, II or III, just like there was no Speedway I.

[Albert]

Where's Breakaway III, Breakaway II and Breakaway I? Are they on a different console or something?

 

The IV in the title was a reference to the fact four people can play at once. There were no Breakaway I, II or III, just like there was no Speedway I.

And no Close Encounters of the First and Second Kind, which confused me when I was a kid.

 

..Al

[BassGuitari]

Where's Breakaway III, Breakaway II and Breakaway I? Are they on a different console or something?

 

The IV in the title was a reference to the fact four people can play at once. There were no Breakaway I, II or III, just like there was no Speedway I.

 

Interesting, I never thought of it as a reference to the number of players. I had thought that Breakaway games I-III were on Sears' Pinball Breakaway system. However, research reveals that only one actually is, so II and II are still in question there.

 

Likewise, I tended to consider "Speedway I" to be the Sears Speedway stand-alone.

 

IIRC, there was also a Speedway IV stand-alone. Would that be why the VCS/Video Arcade Speedway II (which can be played by up to four) wasn't called Speedway IV? If so, it makes sense...but then why go with "Speedway II?" I've got to admit, the numbers Sears used in some of their games' titles are mysteries to me. The reasons for the Breakaway's "IV" and Speedway's "II" seem to be either contradictory or unrelated.

 

It's not that big a deal, I guess, but it's always bugged me. And I'm probably over-thinking it.

[shadow460]

Actually, there was a game called Breakaway released for the Emerson Arcadia 2001. If I thought Sears had anything to do with Emerson Radio Corp, I'd have assumed that was the first and Breakaway IV was the fourth.

[codyr783]

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