Clay Pigeons

Clear the bricks, don't drop the ball — except there are pigeon men leaning out of the windows above the playfield, and they are throwing flowerpots at you. Clay Pigeons is a brick-breaker built around a second game hiding inside the first one. Knock a pigeon man off the balcony rail and he doesn't just disappear: he falls, and now he's yours to juggle. Every bounce off your paddle is worth more than the last, building to a finisher that launches him off the top of the screen. That's where the real scoring lives, and it's a completely different skill from clearing a wall. Miss a pot, though, and it lands on your paddle and stays there. Pots stack, they weigh you down, and the only way to shake them off is to land the ball — which resets the rally multiplier you've been building. Everything in this game is pulling in two directions at once.