Titan can be defined as a raster graphics Arkanoid

Arkanoid

is an arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. It is based upon Atari's Breakout games of the 1970s. The title refers to a doomed "mothership" from which the player's ship, the Vaus, escapes.-Overview:...

/Breakout

Breakout clone

A Breakout clone is a sub-class of the "bat-and-ball" genre introduced with the Magnavox Odyssey's Tennis and Atari's Pong...

-clone from 1988 made by Titus Software

Titus Software

Titus Software, later known as Titus Interactive S.A., was a long-running French software publisher that produced and published video games for various formats over its lifetime....

. It was converted to the PC Engine in 1991 by Naxat Soft.

Gameplay

Titan takes the Breakout concept and adds another dimension by allowing the object the player controls to be able to move on the Y-axis in addition to the old X-axis. The display will follow the small square which the player controls as it moves on a map where there are objects whom your goal is to make a ball hit. The player controls a small rectangle only slightly larger than the size of the ball itself and in addition to hitting the "bricks" to destroy them has to keep the ball away from dangerous hazards which will kill the ball if it hits.

Technology

Titan is very picky about the environment it is presented to when attempted to be executed, e.g. it will reportedly not work at all in DOS 7.0 (Windows 9x "real DOS mode"). There is no speed/frame-limiter on this program thus on a modern computer a slowdown utility

Slowdown utility

A slowdown utility is software designed to make a faster computer run slower. Typically this is used to run old games, which will run too fast or not function properly on more modern high speed machines. Mo'Slo is a modern slowdown utility that uses command line switches to select a slowdown factor...

is needed to make it run at a reasonable rate.

Reception

The game has nice graphics for its time and an original concept, however it is criticized by some for bad controls and irritating effects like the ball sometimes flying off in an unpredictable direction when bouncing.