Here are two weird Japanese Breakout variant.

R.O. by Honkiya
http://saka.ave2.jp/3/kako/6/26.zip (\26.炉\game\ro.exe)
The goal is to break all blocks and clear 4 stages before the time is up.
There's one unique rule: the player must NOT touch balls!
Control
Up, Down, Right, Left: move
Z: level up (ball speed up)
X: level dpwn (ball speed down)
Esc: quit

Block Breaker by Keim
http://www.yomogi.sakura.ne.jp/~si/SolidImage/index_e.shtml
One day, the pad thought. "It's better to break the blocks by myself!".
So the pad doesn't use balls. Drive the pad and crash all the blocks.
This is a time attack driving game.
Control
Z(button1): back
X(button2): speed-up
C(button3): retry
Esc: quit