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IN common with virtually every other game written, Astroball features an heroic quest by some clean-living, square-jawed, public- spirited being.
Trouble is, Astroball is a small squidgy green blob which would have enormous difficulty in being any of these things. He (it could be she or it, but square-jawed heroes are invariably male) must pick up the scattered magical items that of right belong to his people.

The omnipresent Malevolent Powers have nicked these goodies and scattered them in the Evil Forest, Our heroic spheroid, armed with nothing but a cute expression, must bounce about collecting these objects while avoiding too many Each collision depletes his energy., the predictable messy ending ensuing if it reaches zero.
Astroball's horizontal movements cannot be adjusted, but his vertical motion is controllable by the player. For a one character square bouncy blob, he has a remarkable and amusing range of expressions.

The entire range from extreme pain to utter dejection is there, including a neat raspberry blowing routine. From the outset, this game suggests that it has been written almost entirely in Basic - it's more like a beefed up magazine listing than a commercial game.
The sound and graphics are not what could be called brilliant, but the graphics are fast and well animated - for Basic with additional RSXs, that is.

ACU #8809

ASTROBALL
(c) POWER HOUSE

Program: Frederick AKINLAWON
Graphics: Jensen AKINLAWON

★ INFOS: Including music on B-side of the originals tape by (H.E.X : "House Electronic Xperience" / Wayne Allen)

★ YEAR: 1988
★ LANGUAGE:
★ GENRE: INGAME MODE 0 , ARCADE , BALL GAME , TAPE , AUDIOTAPE
★ LiCENCE: COMMERCIALE

 

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» The  Power  House-All  at  an  IncredibleDATE: 2012-10-14
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» Astroball    (Release  TAPE-POWERHOUSE)    ENGLISH-GERMANDATE: 2012-03-22
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L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent  du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko.