A Capcom Classic, a modern pinball machine designed to play like the classic EM machines with the benefits of modern pinball design. The sounds and play remind you of an EM machine, even the score on the DMD is styled to look like a score reel.

Breakshot was released in May of 1996. 1000 units were produced, so there aren't a whole lot of them around. It was designed by Greg Kmiec and the art wark was done by Stan Fukuoka.

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You play three different pool games, rotation, 8-ball and 9-ball by making certain shots. A device in the middle of the playfield catches and holds 1 to 3 balls before releasing them for a 3 ball multi-ball. There is a post that pops up and stops the balls from dropping into the playfield. The cool thing is that if 1 or two balls are resting against the post and you hit the post with a pinball, the balls act like a combo shot in pool and they can be sunk into the "pockets" at the top of the mechanism. When you do that, it's called a "trick shot".

After the three games of pool are completed, you start cutthroat countdown. You get a million points for each ball hit in sequence, very hard to do. This is a pretty neat little game that is different than any other 90's pinball machine you have played.

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