I, Ball is an arcade, released 31 December 1987 on Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
What I, Ball is
I, Ball was released in 1987. It was published by Firebird Software. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player takes the role of the eponymous Ball and gameplay takes the form of a vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up. It was also one of the first games to feature a wide range of power-ups (via power discs). I Ball featured some memorable synthesised speech.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
I, Ball holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1987 averaged 72, so it scored 12 points below the year average.
What it launched against
I, Ball launched on 31 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.
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