# Cool Bricks

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{{Short description|1999 video game}}
{{Infobox video game
|title =Cool Bricks
|genre = [Block breaker](/source/Breakout_(video_game))
|image = Cool Bricks GBC.png
|caption = Cover art
|platform = [Game Boy Color](/source/Game_Boy_Color)
|publisher=[SCi Games](/source/SCi_Games)
|developer = Pukka Games
|released = 1 December 1999
|modes = [Single-player](/source/Single-player_video_game)
}}

'''''Cool Bricks''''' is a 1999 [block breaker](/source/Breakout_(video_game)) game developed by Pukka Games and published by [SCi Games](/source/SCi_Games). The game is an adaptation of the [arcade game](/source/arcade_game) ''[Breakout](/source/Breakout_(video_game))'' for the [Game Boy Color](/source/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](/source/Game_Boy_Color).]] 

''Cool Bricks'' is a [puzzle game](/source/Puzzle_video_game) requires the player to use a bat to guide a ball to break bricks to progress. Compared to ''[Breakout](/source/Breakout_(video_game))'', ''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](/source/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> 

}}

''Cool Bricks'' received positive reviews from gaming publications. Many reviewers made favorable comparisons made to the  [arcade games](/source/arcade_games) ''[Breakout](/source/Breakout_(video_game))'' and ''[Arkanoid](/source/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](/source/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

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