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The Magician's Ball

The Magician's Ball is a single player text adventure with graphics that features Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells as in-game music. For reasons of plot line development a little girl has been turned to stone by…

31 December 1985

The Magician's Ball is an adventure, released 31 December 1985 on Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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What The Magician's Ball is

The Magician's Ball was released in 1985. It was published by Global Software. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Magician's Ball is a single player text adventure with graphics that features Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells as in-game music. For reasons of plot line development a little girl has been turned to stone by an evil wizard. The player takes the role of Caro, a magician, and must slay the evil wizard in order to break the spell. Unusually the game allows the player to instruct other characters to perform actions and also has another character, Azul, that the player can become so if Caro dies it is still possible to complete the game.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Magician's Ball launched on 31 December 1985, within three weeks of Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter and Mercenary.

Released around the same time: Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter, Mercenary.

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When did The Magician's Ball come out?
The Magician's Ball was released on 31 December 1985 for Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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