Santa-themed Breakout Arcade Game - Snow Ball
Snow Ball is a fun, festively-themed online breakout game for young children, teens and nostalgic grownups where you have to help Santa Claus retrieve gifts to put back on his sleigh (sled) by eliminating them from the game screen using a bouncing ball. Breakout games were immensely popular in the 1970’s and 80’s, and feature a paddle at the bottom of the game screen (here Santa himself and his wooden piece of sleigh are the paddle). Your goal is to help Santa to eliminate rows of bricks (Holiday Season gifts) in the top area of the game screen with a bouncing ball. But, Santa has to contend with exploding gifts, super-fast balls, and a whole load of tricky ball rebounding action!
This entertaining skill-based arcade game is delightfully reminiscent of iconic breakout games such as Atari Breakout! Quick reactions, good observation skills and mouse control are all extremely important in Snow Ball. The ability to predict the probable path of the bouncing ball is key. Ok Santa, it’s time for some fancy breakout moves!
How to Play: Your goal in each level is to successfully eliminate all of the gift-wrapped blocks from the top half of the game screen. You have to repeatedly deflect a bouncing ball toward the blocks using the wooden paddle (held by Santa). Using your computer mouse or touchpad, Left Click to launch the ball upwards, and move your paddle to the left and right using your computer mouse cursor.
You have 3 lives in total, indicated in the top right corner of the game zone. If you allow the ball to make contact with the bottom of the game screen by letting it escape past your paddle, you lose a life. Tip: The more blocks you eliminate with the one deflection, the more chances you have of creating a ‘Super Ball’, or a ‘Fire Ball’. These upgrades eliminate blocks much faster than an ordinary bouncing ball. Enjoy!
If this Flash-based game no longer works on IE11 or Chrome browser on your PC / MAC, try playing Firefox browser with Adobe Flash player installed.