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Blockout is a 3D Block dropping game, that greatly exercises the 3d spatial capabilities of the human brain.

The Original Blockout® is in fact a subgame of the board game QUINTILLIONS and Super Quintillions, an invention of Kate Jones from www.gamepuzzles.com. Super Quintillions features the block shapes you very well know from Blockout.
Originally, Blockout was a 2 player game played with the quintillion pieces. The target of the game was to place your own pieces and to "block-out" placement of the opponents pieces.

In 1989, Blockout was designed as a Computer Video game by by Aleksander Ustaszewski and Mirosław Zabłocki. Several Version for different Platforms were released. Among them are the widely known DOS, Atari and Amiga versions, developed by California Dreams, a subsidiary of LDW (Logical Design Works) Software, a California company (San José, actually almost all development was done in Poland, they might have an office in California only...). (stub. please complete..) More info at gamepuzzles.

The game allows the player to choose the set of blocks they will play with and the size of the pit. Pits range from 3x3x6 to 7x7x18, giving a total of 195 possible pit sizes (counting e.g. 3x5x6 and 5x3x6 as identical). Three block sets are available — flat, basic, and extended — making a total of 585 possible game modes.

• The Flat block set (8 flat polycubes):

• The Basic block set (7 polycubes):

The 7 polycubes of the basic block set can be assembled into a 3x3x3 cube: Soma cube.

• The Extended block set (all 41 possible n-polycubes n∈[1..5]):

• Blockout Game Guide by PARANOMIA

• DOS Blockout by California Dreams.
• Amiga Blockout
• Arcade Blockout The Blockout playable in Arcades worldwide
• Lynx Atari Blockout
• Sega Megadrive Blockout Blockout for the Megadrive console
• 3D Blockout for Palm PDAs by www.pda3dware.com - very accurate and perfect blockout!

• Geom Cube for Sony Playstation
• 3D Tetris for the Virtual Boy

• Flash Blockout programmed in Flash. Online Playable, with Highscorelists.
• Blockout II for Windows/Linux (DirectX/OpenGL) the currently most perfect Blockout Clone.
• Java Blockout running in the Browser by Nerius Landys (thanks for www.blockout.net donation)
• XBlockOut for Unix/Linux (X11)
• BlockAway for mobile phones (J2ME)
• FEItrix for Windows (DirectX). Though graphically nice, its missing some wall-kicks.
• FredOut for Windows
• Blockout Millenium
• Blockout Resurrection
• Gnome 3D Tetris for Linux running Gnome Desktop.
• AresTris graphically impressive, but gameplay is lacking. DirectX 9
• Polycubes A nice OpenGL/OpenAL clone of Blockout (Windows)
• SDLBlock Not very good one.
• Pblocks.com A flash version of blockout
• TBlocks For mobile phones (J2ME)

• Sphere Out A spherical variant of Blockout
• 4DTris A 4D variant of Blockout

• QU4TRO high quality, polished 3D Tetris, featuring new approaches to 3D Interaction.

1. Blockout 1989 for DOS
2. Arcade version
3. Sphereout, a spherical blockout clone
4. Blockout II
5. 4D-Tris, a 4D variant of Blockout

1. Blouckout Site by Uwe Gladasch (DOS Game)
2. Blockout Tatics by Igor Vukomanovic
3. Blouckout Site by Peter Beck (Java Applet)
4. Blouckout Site (DOS Game)
5. 3dtris - Blockout clone in flash with highscore list
6. Blockout site by Theodor Lauppert
7. Blockout by Jafar N.Aliyev(Jeff) (Win32 Game)