Off the Wall (1991)/Gameplay

Controls

• Rotary Controller: Use the rotary controller to direct your paddle up and down the left or right side of the screen (or horizontally across the bottom of it if you are player 2); for the two-player cabinets, the blue paddle on the right side of the screen usually controlled by player 3 becomes that of player 2, and the position of the second player's original green paddle at the bottom of the screen will be replaced with a solid wall for the ball to bounce off.
• Action Button: Use this button to increase the speed of your paddle; if you have collected an F powerup, pressing this button will cause your paddle to fire shots at the blocks in order to destroy them (this is similar to the effect the L powerup has on the Vaus in Taito Corporation's Arkanoid games).

Powerups

Glowing bricks shall leave powerups behind when destroyed; they will fly towards the paddle of the player who last bounced the ball away (but if the ball is moving at a high speed, they will fly around in multiple directions before they can get collected). Each of the powerups has a different letter and effect:

• X: When your paddle collects this powerup, it shall receive an extra life; they shall always begin with three (but the numbers in the top-left corner are one less than the actual life counts, which means that when one of the paddles is down to its last life the number representing its life count will be 0).
• C: When your paddle collects this powerup, it shall gain the ability to "catch" the ball when it lands on it (the ball shall stick to it), then launch it again.
• I: When your paddle collects this powerup, the ball shall gain the ability to destroy all blocks in its path, but this will not keep it from going out of play.
• B: When your paddle collects this powerup, it shall increase in size which makes it easier to bounce the ball off when it comes flying back towards it.
• S: When your paddle collects this powerup, the ball will be slowed down, which again makes it easier to bounce it away when it flies back towards it.
• F: When your paddle collects this powerup, it will gain an activated-by-pressing-the-Action-Button ability of firing shots at the blocks to destroy them.