Hellanoid

The Hellanoid arcade cabinet.

Hellanoid is a minigame which occurs in the 2005 original version of Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil. Like Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 before it, it is one of several Nabcon arcade games that occur throughout the Mars City complex. Its title is an allusion to Arkanoid, the 1986 arcade game by Taito with similar mechanics: the goal is to break blocks with a ball which can be reflected back with a paddle, which is restricted to moving left and right across the bottom of the screen. Victory is secured by clearing all of the blocks on screen, whereupon game play proceeds to the next level. If the ball leaves the bottom of the screen, a credit is lost. Power-ups sometimes occur in this version of the game which trigger multi-ball mode. When all levels are cleared, the game loops back to the beginning, so obtaining a high score is the only goal as in many classic arcade games.

There is only one working copy of Hellanoid, which can be found in the lounge area of Erebus - Level 4: Erebus Control. A non-working copy can be encountered shortly before, in a storage room off the Administration South Hall. It was likely trashed by the zombie found in the same room.

Hellanoid, along with all other unique Resurrection of Evil minigames, was removed from Doom 3: BFG Edition, and has not been present in any other version of Doom 3 released since (all of which have been based on it).

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  One of the game's levels resembles a classic imp.