Zenith
Zenith is a game which defies traditional genre descriptions. Players control a silver ball, akin to a pinball, with a viewpoint looking directly down on the ball from above. Unlike pinball, where the ball…
Zenith is a video game, released 31 December 1997 on Philips CD-i.
What Zenith is
Zenith was released in 1997. It is available on Philips CD-i only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Zenith is a game which defies traditional genre descriptions. Players control a silver ball, akin to a pinball, with a viewpoint looking directly down on the ball from above. Unlike pinball, where the ball falls vertically in front of the player, in Zenith continuously bounces towards and away from the player viewpoint. Imagine dropping a golf ball on a hard floor while looking at it directly from above - and then watching as the ball bounces directly upwards along that straight line of sight. There are no flippers or any other traditional elements similar to pinball. Instead the player controls the ball directly. While the bouncing cannot be controlled, the ball can be moved in any of the…
How it was received
Zenith holds a critic score of 28 out of 100. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 37 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Zenith launched on 31 December 1997, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.
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