Wizball is an arcade developed by Sensible Software, released 31 December 1987 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE and Commodore C64/128/MAX.
What Wizball is
Wizball is an arcade game developed by Sensible Software and released in 1987. It was published by Ocean Software. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Wizball is a scrolling shooter in similar vein to Gradius with an additional collection dynamic. It is a horizontally scrolling game taking place over eight levels, which involves navigating around a landscape and shooting at sprites. However, the aim of the game is to collect droplets of coloured paint to colour the level. Each level starts off as monochromatic, drawn in three shades of grey, and needs three colours (red, blue, and green) to be collected to complete it. The player, a wizard who has taken the form of a green ball, can navigate between the levels through portals. At first the wizard only has access to the first three levels, but completing levels gains access to further…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Wizball holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1987 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Wizball launched on 31 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Wizball yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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