VICE BREAK - Vice Bay 86

VICE BAY, 1986. The sun drops into the ocean, the neon comes on, the radio plays the right track. Take the paddle. VICE BREAK is a fast brick breaker played with one hand, in an imaginary seaside city at the end of the eighties. THE RUSH GAUGE Every brick you break fills the gauge. The higher it climbs, the higher the multiplier: x2, x3, x5, x10. But nothing is yours until you cash it in: flick your thumb up and the points are banked. Wait too long, lose a ball, and it all goes up in smoke. The whole game lives in that decision, a hundred times a run. FIVE DISTRICTS Ocean Drive and its surf, Downtown and its towers, the Everglades under the storm, the sodium-lit highway, the skyline at dusk. Each district has its own light, its own palette and its own life behind the wall: gulls, a helicopter, rain, fireflies, street lamps rolling past. A REAL RADIO Five stations on the air, with their…