Arcade Archives 2: Gee Bee

Gee Bee is a 1978 block breaker and pinball video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. The player controls a set of paddles with a rotary knob, where the goal is to score as many points as possible by deflecting a ball against bricks, pop bumpers and other objects in the playfield. It was developed by Toru Iwatani, known as the creator of Pac-Man and Pole Position. Outside Japan, it was published by Gremlin Industries. Gee Bee was the first video game to be designed in-house by Namco. Prior to this, the company had manufactured arcade electro-mechanical games (such as Periscope and F-1) and published a number of video games by Atari, Inc. (notably Breakout) in Japan.