Arkanoid and its home releases received several awards, including the "Silver Award" from the Gamest Awards,Gamest, The Best Game 2: Gamest Mook Vol. 112, pp. 6-26 "Games of the Year" from Compute! magazine,Arcade Action, Computer and Video Games, December 1987 "Best Arcade Game" from the Entertainment Software Trade Awards, "Best Arcade Translation" from Computer Gaming World, and "Best Video/Computer Arcade Translation" (for the NES version) from VideoGames & Computer Entertainment. Arkanoid was the first game to enter the Popular Computing Weekly Hall of Fame, in 1987.
