Arkanoid Fanpage! Strategy

Controls:

Power-ups:

	Name	Description
	Enlarge	Collect the blue capsule to extend the width of the Vaus by about twice the normal length.
	Disruption	Collect the cyan capsule and the ball turn into three balls.
	Player	Collect the gray capsule to receive an extra Vaus.
	Catch	Collect the green capsule and the player can catch the ball on the Vaus. The player can then release it after they line it up for a shot to take out some bricks.
	Slow	Collect the orange capsule and the speed of the ball will slow down.
	Lasers	Collect the red capsule and the Vause will have the ability to shoot twin lasers out of it towards the blocks.
	Break	Collect the violet capsule and the player will skip through the current level onto the next. The player will aslo gain 10,000 points.

Bricks:

	Color	Details
	White brick	One shot to destroy, 50 points.
	Orange brick	One shot to destroy, 60 points.
	Cyan brick	One shot to destroy, 70 points.
	Green brick	One shot to destroy, 90 points.
	Red brick	One shot to destroy, 100 points.
	Blue brick	One shot to destroy, 110 points.
	Violet brick	One shot to destroy, 120 points.
	Yellow brick	One shot to destroy, 50 points.
	Silver brick	The number of hits it takes to destroy them increases by one every eight stages. Worth 50X the stage number you are on.
	Gold brick	Cannot be destroyed.

Tips & Tricks

Power-up Rarity
The power pills are completely random except that the extra life and warp pills are twice as unlikely to occur. Only one extra life pill is possible per "vaus". If the pill randomizer selects a duplicate pill based on the last pill dropped, a multi-ball pill is substituted. Thus, the multi-ball pill is the only one you can get twice in a row. The randomizer uses player score as the seed, so it is possible to control which pill is dispensed by purposely breaking pill dispensing blocks with specific scores displayed.

Ball Speed
On each level, the ball will not speed up completely until it hits the back wall, so :

1. Try to remove bricks from the bottom up, or punch a hole through thicker areas of bricks rather than go straight through (e.g. take out the left side of level 2 rather than the single block at the right as you will catch far more pills).
2. If you have collected a lot of S pills and the ball has been in play for a bit of time, be prepared for a sudden speedup.

Multiple Balls
As only one pill can fall at a time, multiple balls can reduce your potential score quite drastically. Every pill is worth 1000 points. For the first few levels, get every pill you can, but do not use the special powers. You will get a lot of extra ships and should get a gray P or two - thereby starting early with 6 or 7 ships.

DOH
In the final level, where you face DOH himself, you should get 15 hits (1000 points per hit) on DOH/per man until you defeat DOH with the 16th hit on your last man to end the game.