This recent entry in Atari’s “Recharged” series offers a solid new version of Breakout with super smooth, clean visuals on modern consoles.

The titular Recharged mode gives you a slew of power-ups that generally are pretty fun to use, and require extra attention to be paid to not lose track of your ball while you use them. To balance this out, you’re only given one life, while a couple classic modes let you play with three lives with or without the power-ups. I enjoy all three modes, as well as the challenge mode which has 50 levels with various custom objectives to complete. All of this can be done in shared screen co-op as well.

Though analog control does offer more precision, the lack of any D-pad support in-game and even in menus is annoying. The Xbox version also has a really dumb issue where achievement pop-ups block the most important part of the screen and have made me prematurely die several times… There are ways around that on their end—even for the budget price this is going for, I can’t say I totally forgive them for not realizing that’s a huge problem.

I’d say this is worth picking up on sale, which is how I got it. Plenty of pick-up-and-play fun to be had. Just get it on something besides the Xbox.