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Generation Ship and Escape Pod
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* [[Eenie Meenie Miny Moai]]: Doh.
* [[Engrish]]: The opening and ending.
* [[Escape Pod]]: Vaus
* [[Excuse Plot]]: You're a spaceship trying to escape from DIMENSION-CONTROLLING FORT DOH, by destroying blocks with a bouncing ball. Right.
{{quote|"THE TIME AND ERA OF THIS STORY IS UNKNOWN. AFTER THE MOTHERSHIP "ARKANOID" WAS DESTROYED, A SPACECRAFT "VAUS" SCRAMBLED AWAY FROM IT. BUT ONLY TO BE TRAPPED IN SPACE WARPED BY SOMEONE........"}}
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: The iPod Touch version ''finally'' gives DOH a meaning. It's an acronym for the ''Arkanoid'''s crew's term for the thing on account of its control of the fabric of time-space, "Dominator of Hours".
* [[Generation Ship]]: The manual for the game's NES port explains that the ''Arkanoid'' holds the refugees from a devastated planet.
* [[The Goomba]]: In the games that have enemies, everything except the teleporting panels that randomly move your ball to somewhere else in the level. They go down in one hit, and touching the Vaus kills ''them'' not you: Their purpose is not to inflict direct harm, only to throw your ball off trajectory. On the other hand, bosses do kill you with their attacks.
* [[Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball]]
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: Playing the mid-[[The Nineties|Nineties]] Macintosh version on a black and white monitor? The odds were against you finding the right spot to beat Doh. True to an extent in all versions, because unless your grasp of geometry is at PhD level, you won't be able to precisely predict the trajectory of or aim the ball correctly every time.
* [[Mutually Exclusive Powerups]]: The only way to stop some of them becoming [[Game Breaker
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Missions involving mostly gold bricks tend to be this. An entire mass of them with only a few, or even a single, destructable brick is a common sight in later levels.
* [[One Hundred Percent Completion]]: The DS version has this.
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