Gimme a Break

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Gimme a Break is a cue sports arcade game which was released by Bally and Sente in 1985; it was the first of the second batch of games to run on that company's SAC-I hardware, and the player must use a singular button to position the cue ball, with a trackball to control it during each shot. In a two-player game, one player must aim for the solid-coloured balls (1 to 7), while the other must aim for the white ones with a coloured stripe across them (9 to 15) - and in a one-pl

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Developer
Bally Sente Inc.
Publisher
Bally Sente Inc.
Release · Arcade
  • WorldwideJul 01, 1985

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