Comment by robot_jesus
13 hours ago
I can't believe no one I've seen has called out the secret game! Go to Settings>About and then hold the center button for 5 seconds. I used to play so much of this bricks game in college when procrastinating from studying in the library.
It's a Breakout clone. I mean that's what they're generally called in case you did not already know this.
it was called brick on the ipod.
woz and jobs did work on breakout at atari
A piece of lore I never knew.
Digging into it just now, an important distinction I initially missed is that they worked on the original arcade cabinet (all game logic implemented directly in hardware), which predated the 2600 and its software version by several years (by which time they had already founded Apple).
lol. Woz did work on Breakout for Atari (Atari didn't know this). Jobs got most of the money (Woz didn't know this).
It's literally one of the "big prick" items of Job's history, along with disowning his own child.
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I remember loading this game on my video iPod back in 2005. It’s a tragedy that I never knew I could just play this through an Easter egg!
HOW DID I NEVER KNOW ABOUT THIS!!!!!!
Amazingg! I never owned an iPod, so this is my first chance to experience it, I had forgotten that I'd seen all those videos where you navigate using the wheel instead of the buttons
It’s called out in the macrumors article linked in the submission fyi
Also, holding down the menu key for a second turns on the "backlight", like the real iPod (for those that don't know).
Though it's cute that it's the 404 page, you can get to the page directly via https://music.apple.com/us/ipod.