{{Short description|1999 video game}} {{Infobox video game |title =Cool Bricks |genre = Block breaker |image = Cool Bricks GBC.png |caption = Cover art |platform = Game Boy Color |publisher=SCi Games |developer = Pukka Games |released = 1 December 1999 |modes = Single-player }}
'''''Cool Bricks''''' is a 1999 block breaker game developed by Pukka Games and published by SCi Games. The game is an adaptation of the arcade game ''Breakout'' for the Game Boy Color.
==Gameplay==
[[Image:Cool Bricks Screenshot.jpg|thumb|left|A screenshot of ''Cool Bricks'', depicting the high color mode on the Game Boy Color.]]
''Cool Bricks'' is a puzzle game requires the player to use a bat to guide a ball to break bricks to progress. Compared to ''Breakout'', ''Cool Bricks'' features the inclusion of varied weapons, such as laser guns, missiles, grenade launchers, larger bats or multiple balls,<ref name=64M/> and the addition of power-ups with positive and negative effects, such as a 'poison mode' that causes involuntary player movement.<ref name=TGB/> The game features over 150 levels with a password system to allow for returning to certain stages.<ref>{{cite web|website=SCi|title=Cool Bricks|date=1999|url=http://www.sci.co.uk/Products/CoolBricks/coolbricks.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000916001000/http://www.sci.co.uk/Products/CoolBricks/coolbricks.htm |archive-date=2000-09-16 }}</ref> The graphics of ''Cool Bricks'' are programmed to make use of a 'high-color mode' in the Game Boy Color that allows the device to display 2,000 instead of 50 colors on screen, by compromising with reduced animations.<ref name=IGN>{{cite web|website=IGN|last=Harris|first=Craig|date=23 May 2000|title=Cool Bricks|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/05/23/cool-bricks}}</ref>
==Reception==
{{Video game reviews
| rev3 = ''64 Magazine'' | rev3Score = 90%<ref name=64M>{{cite journal|journal=64 Magazine|date=September 2000|pages=54|issue=44|title=Cool Bricks|url=https://archive.org/details/64-magazine-44/page/n59}}</ref>
| rev1 = ''Game Boy Xtreme'' | rev1Score = 82%<ref name=GBX>{{cite journal|journal=Game Boy Xtreme|date=September 2001|pages=61|issue=3|title=On the Shelves|url=https://archive.org/details/GBX-Magazine-Print-Collection/03%20GBX%20September%202001/page/n63}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''Total Game Boy Color'' | rev2Score = 86%<ref name=TGB>{{cite journal|journal=Total Game Boy Color|date=September 2000|pages=38|issue=11|title=Cool Bricks|url=https://archive.org/details/total-gbc-11/page/6}}</ref>
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''Cool Bricks'' received positive reviews from gaming publications. Many reviewers made favorable comparisons made to the arcade games ''Breakout'' and ''Arkanoid'', whilst praising the minor additions to the game such as the use of power-ups.<ref name=TGB/><ref name=GBX/> David O'Donohoe for ''Console Domain'' praised the game as a "perfect port" of the ''Breakout'' formula, stating that "with a few new graphics and fresh levels in order to sell it to a new, younger audience [...] the gameplay is as addictive now as it has always been".<ref>{{cite web|title=Cool Bricks|website=Console Domain|last=O'Donohoe|first=David|date=2000|url=http://consoledomain.com/gameboy/reviews/Cool_Bricks_GBC.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010208142202/http://consoledomain.com/gameboy/reviews/Cool_Bricks_GBC.html |archive-date=2001-02-08 }}</ref> ''64 Magazine'' praised ''Cool Bricks'' as "extremely well suited to the Game Boy Color" and "almost impossible to put down once you've started playing".<ref name=64M/> ''Total Game Boy Color'' also praised the game, noting whilst it was not "ground-breakingly original", ''Cool Bricks'' was an "addictive, challenging puzzler".<ref name=TGB/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{MobyGames|id=/gameboy-color/cool-bricks|name=Cool Bricks}}
Category:1999 video games Category:Game Boy Color games Category:Game Boy Color-only games Category:Paddle-and-ball video games Category:Pukka Games games Category:SCi Games games Category:Single-player video games