Breakout is like checkers. As far as I know, it's been around forever and probably always will be. I couldn't tell you the first time I played it, but like checkers -- like go fish, like hopscotch, like kickball -- it's one of those games that I remember just always being there when I was a kid. Whether it was on an arcade machine in some restaurant or on my family's first desktop, Breakout was one of those games I grew up with -- like Asteroids or Pong or Pacman.