Games of the 8-, 16- & 32-bit era

Alleyway

Title	Alleyway
First release	1989
Developer	Nintendo Research & Development 1
Publisher	Nintendo
Platform	Game Boy
Genre	Breakout clone
Also known as	アレイウェイ · Areiuĕi
Players	1 player
Co-op	No
ESRB rating	E Everyone
Releases	Game Boy: 1989-07-31 (NTSC-U), 1990-09-28 (PAL)
Wikidata ID	Q2601198

Alleyway is a 1989 Game Boy video game developed by Nintendo R&D1 and Intelligent Systems and released by Nintendo of America in the USA on July 31, 1989. Interstellar ping-pong with a deadly energy ball! Your spaceship is at the gate of the Alleyway. Use your vessel to repel the energy ball. Atomize space grids with your return shots. Destroy the entire field and move on to even more challenging targets. You're in command in the Alleyway!

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Sources

Wikidata (Q2601198) · last updated 2026-09-27 · CC0

TheGamesDB (3152,109689) · last updated 2026-07-18 · no licence stated · internal use only

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Image credits

Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, NTSC-U release) · © Nintendo · internal use only. TheGamesDB page

Box art, Logos (2): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Nintendo · internal use only. TheGamesDB page

Screenshots (1): Source: libretro-thumbnails (upstream libretro-thumbnails (art by developers/publishers; see repo README)) · © Nintendo · internal use only.

Image: Artistosteles, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (“Alleyway GB.jpg”)

Sprites

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Videos

Game Boy Longplay [094] Alleyway

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Gameboy Game: Alleyway (1989 Nintendo) [Super Gameboy Version]

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