Hypaball
Hypaball is a two player futuristic sports game, played between the Hawks (human) and the Vipers (human or CPU). Choose your three-man team from a pool of 10 players, each with slightly different stats for…
Hypaball is a sport, released 31 December 1986 on Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
What Hypaball is
Hypaball was released in 1986. It was published by Odin Computer Graphics Ltd.. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Hypaball is a two player futuristic sports game, played between the Hawks (human) and the Vipers (human or CPU). Choose your three-man team from a pool of 10 players, each with slightly different stats for strength, agility and speed. The teams have to pass and catch a ball and shoot it to a moving basket in the middle of the screen. Two players are in the air (one in each half of the arena), while the third remains on the ground to collect an otherwise-dead ball. You simultaneously control the grounder and the air player nearer the ball - they move left and right in unison, but only the air player responds to up-down movements. Players can only hold possession for 2.5 seconds, in order to…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Hypaball launched on 31 December 1986, within three weeks of World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel and Rebelstar.
Released around the same time: World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel, Rebelstar.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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