Used to love this game, faintly recall it having a very large amount of levels. Game Over animation quite distinct - man with a large hammer breaks a brick with "BREAK-IT" written on it in half.
I'm sure it saved the game, not sure what the condition for saving were, though. I used to play this as a small kid, after all.
Googling actually turned up a request here on this forum for the exact same game from '08 . Even with that, I can't get any further towards actually -finding- the game in question.
"Break-It" - Ball and Paddle game [DOS/WIN] (~1998
Shareware version: https://www.mediafire.com/file/8uzjc593 ... reakit.zip