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"Speedball is coming. Worship this game you hippies"

Speedball is being updated.

This is quite possibly the finest game ever made, and itís being updated with online play capabilities for the PC (might be other formats as well, I donít really care).
If you have never played this game, then you should be ashamed that you are so young as to miss out on the finest video-game experience ever.
This was before we called them video-games, they were known as ìComputer Gamesî and you could eat things like Spangles and Chewitts whilst you waited.
It was on the Amiga and rocked big time.

Whatís it about?
Two teams in an arena.
The metal-ball comes out and you have to punch, kick, shoot, bomb the other team until you can score by slamming into the hole/goal.
Imagine American Football without the nancy protective gear and bombs or chainsaws.

Occasionally you could cripple a player enough that he was carted off by robots with the cry of ìIce CreamÖIce Creamî as the prone body was spirited away.
For every match you won, you earned money to spend on improving players abilities, thus making them even more psychopathic and blood-thirsty.
There were leagues, championships and a two-player mode where you could trounce your mate and dance like a bear when you killed his best players.
Excellent.

And itís being updated and polished.
You should be moist at the prospect of playing this legend in two-player sports-related violence.

Just downloaded Speedball 2 and the Genesis emulator.

It rocks.

Its about killing people. And scoring points by throwing a metal ball into a goal past a 'keeper.

Speedball 2?...great game! I used to play it with my older brother and get whooped everytime :P

MJ

I'm not entirely sure what Speedball is, or what it's about. But I have an idea, because I was reminded of it today at school.

Dead Ball Zone and Riot for the PS1 - both, in my opinion, were great games, but were they anything like Speedball?

Or to make things easier, I could have a look at the link Goatboy provided us with :D

but that makes it so that updates are sequels and sequels are updates.

I'm guessing it's an update unless the game strategy has changed, but that then makes GT3 an update.

Soneone do a topic!

Slaveunit wrote:
> So wheres the line between sequel and update?

In my mind an update is when they take a game like Speedball (say), and then redo it and call it Speedball:2001 or something like that.

Although essentially, they are all sequels.

So wheres the line between sequel and update?

Slaveunit wrote:
> Tiltawhirl wrote:
> I bet it sucks, the 3D updates of games like this tend
> to suck, but Speedball 2
> is still damn good fun.


Spyhunter got away
> with it... and GTA3....

GTA3 isnt really an update its a sequal.... but i can see the updatedness of it

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> I bet it sucks, the 3D updates of games like this tend to suck, but Speedball 2
> is still damn good fun.


Spyhunter got away with it... and GTA3....

I got to go to school now so bye bye.