Speedball
Speedball is a futuristic football-like game which takes place on a steel walled floored pitch, 160 feet long by 90 feet wide. There are two teams, and the team scoring the most goals wins. There is a goal at…
Speedball is a sport developed by The Bitmap Brothers, released 1 November 1988 on Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System/Mark III, Amiga and Atari ST/STE.
What Speedball is
Speedball is a sport game developed by The Bitmap Brothers and released in 1988. It was published by Image Works. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System/Mark III, Amiga, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Speedball is a futuristic football-like game which takes place on a steel walled floored pitch, 160 feet long by 90 feet wide. There are two teams, and the team scoring the most goals wins. There is a goal at each end of the pitch and a ball warp tunnel in each side of the wall. The warp tunnels can warp a ball from one tunnel to another. The ball is launched from the center of the pit by the automatic launcher in a random direction. There also bounce domes, off of which the ball will be deflected, but over which players are free to move.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
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