Wizball
Sign in to saveWizball is a horizontally scrolling shooter written by Jon Hare and Chris Yates (co-founders of Sensible Software) and released in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and later in the year for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Versions for the Amiga and Atari ST were released in the following year. Wizball was also ported to IBM PC compatibles (for the Color Graphics Adapter) and the Thomson MO5.
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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 th…
- Released
- 1987
- Genres
- Shooter, Platform, Arcade
- Platforms
- Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST/STE, DOS, Amiga, Amstrad CPC
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Developer
- Sensible Software
- Publisher
- Ocean Software
Key facts
- Video game.title
- Wizball
- Video game.image
- wizball cover art.jpg
- Video game.developer
- Sensible Software
- Video game.publisher
- Ocean Software
- Video game.producer
- D. C. Ward
- Video game.programmer
- Chris Yates
- Video game.artist
- Jon Hare
- Video game.composer
- Martin Galway
- Video game.released
- May 1987
- Video game.genre
- Scrolling shooter
- Video game.modes
- Single-player, multiplayer
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Wizball is a horizontally scrolling shooter written by Jon Hare and Chris Yates (co-founders of Sensible Software) and released in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and later in the year for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Versions for the Amiga and Atari ST were released in the following year. Wizball was also ported to IBM PC compatibles (for the Color Graphics Adapter) and the Thomson MO5.
Wizball's more humorous sequel, Wizkid, was released in 1992 for the Amiga, Atari ST, and IBM PC compatibles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wizball” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.