I beat it on my 5th or 6th try. It took me about 3 hrs, 45 min to play through the 50 levels. Beating the 50th level gets you a Bravo screen and then it starts over. I'd beaten it 30 or so years ago, but hadn't really touched it between then and when I downloaded it a few days ago.
This is a pretty good Arkanoid clone released in 1988. I almost positive it was freeware or shareware.
The game is in French, but other than the Bravo screen, the only text is on the game menu and your score, so there's no real language barrier. It also has a level editor, which I didn't play around with, but I might have 30 years ago.
The game is in that classic CGA color scheme, so if you can put up with the rather garish magenta and cyan, I highly recommend giving this a try. It will require DOSBox to run. I found somewhere in the 750 cycle range is about what I remember for the speed. I ran it in Windowed mode since the level transition was extremely slow and I had to boost the cycles so it wouldn't take probably well over a minute to change levels, then reduce it back to ~750 for the actual game, so seeing the cycles given in that other DOSBox window made things a lot easier than slowing it down and hoping I got it right.
The game is on the easy side. A couple levels pretty much come down to luck to beat. There is also a glitch where if the ball hits the corner of the paddle just right, it'll go right through the paddle. The luck-based levels and that glitch knock my score down a point.
