WIZBALL | Commodore 64 (1987)
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- In Wizball, for the Commodore 64, the player takes the role of the friendly wizard Wiz who can turn himself into a green ball that is able to defend his world against the color-sucking enemies who have turned his once brightly colored Wizworld into a drab planet.
With his trusty feline companion Catelite, the wizard will restore the colors to the world by retrieving them from defeated enemies. There are eight levels to be completed
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00:00 Introduction
00:12 Wizball
01:02 Wizworld
01:53 Paint Drops
02:24 Pearls (Power Ups)
03:12 Power Ups Explained
04:07 Nifta, Your Cat
04:25 Eight Levels Stacked vertically
05:02 My Thoughts
06:45 Jon Hare Inspiration For Wizball
10:10 End Titles (Game Links)
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Truly original, I wish a remake was available for modern systems.
Some games are just weird why there never were any sequels or remakes. Why on earth haven't we gotten a new Stunt car racer for example???
Very true, imagine something like this - polished, for a modern console. I'd still say the C64 version would be the best 😄🕹👌
As far as I am concerned, this is the best game on the C64. I totally agree with your theory that people who dislike the game didn't know you had to collect the pearls to enable the anti gravity icon. When I first played it I thought it was impossible to control and was going to give up on it, but once you have these abilities it suddenly clicks and you can get into the game. I particularly like the later levels where you have to go between levels to mix the primary colours to create the required shade. Utterly brilliant and the music is one of Galway's finest tracks.
Absolutely agree that it has to be up there in everyone's top 10 games for the Commodore 64. Galways music is legendary 😇🕹👌
Wizball on the Commodore C64 is the best shoot-em up ever. C64 Wizball is also the very best version of the game; no other versions are close to this. Completely epic. What the Commodore C64 was made for.
Absolutely. This game makes me proud to gave lived through such an amazing era in gaming 😇🕹👌
Still feel the shivers run up & down my spine when I hear this music. Really in all respects one of the very best of the C64 imo. Graphics, sound, music, gameplay all top notch. Wot a wizace!
There's definitely some of the C64 music that still does that for me to this dat, literally sends shivers. Pure nostalgia 😇🕹👌
Hope you've had a chance to catch Reyn Ouwehand's cover of the title track - search "Reyn vs Martin Galway - Wizball"
This was a great game. When i did my military service (1988) i was forced to stay over a weekend, so me and a friend played this game 3 days without turning off the computer. One moved the wizard and one moved the cat, so it was a co-op game.
Brilliant, those are fantastic nostalgic memories that will always stay with you - so glad it was with such a classic game such as Wizball 😇🕹️👌
WIZBALL 😺👍🕹️!!!!
One of my retrospectively biggest favorite games ever 😺👍🕹️!
I had it for my Commodore 64 as a tape
in a compilation called
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN -
which is one of the best compilations for the Commodore 64 ever 😺👍🕹️.
Now, i still have it for my Amiga 500 as one of the TEN STAR PACK games 😺👍🕹️.
I have never finished the Commodore 64 version 😹,
but i did finish the Amiga version three times 😹😸😺👍🕹️.
I also had its awesome sequel,
WIZKID: THE STORY SO WIZBALL II,
for my Amiga 500 😺👍.
One thing, that still amazes me, is that the cover art for WIZKID was drawn by Robert Crumb
(FRITZ THE CAT, MR. NATURAL) 😺👍.
I'd have loved to have owned that compilation (Magnificent Seven) am am hoping to cover all games that came on it over the coming weeks for sure. What an awesome compilation that is 😇🕹👌
This is one off the seminal games for the 64. It didn't take my fancy at all at first but when I got the magnificent 7 compilation which this was on and I played it that was it I was hooked. This game excels in every department. Music, sound effects, graphics and of course gameplay which it had in bucket loads. I highly recommend anyone who never managed to get into it to try again because you really are missing out on something special.
Absolutely bang on there - a seminal game for sure. Anyone from any age able enough to grab a joystick should give this game a go as I'm sure they'd definitely enjoy it... if not, even love it 😇🕹️👌
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!!!
By far and away the best shooter on the 64. Fantastic as 1 player, simply unbeatable as 2 player with a mate controlling the cat.
My only criticism is that it initially took a while to click for me. It looked pretty enough, and sounded great, but I struggled a little with it (I was 11 years old at the time, in my defence!), but when that lightbulb appeared above my head, there was no looking back.
Some games had great graphics, some had originality, some had great sound/music - this had them all. Absolutely brilliant.
I absolutely get what you mean about the game 'clicking'.. I think it was after initially discovering I could control Wizball so effortlessly after upgrading the anti-grav... it felt so 'smooth' in the gameplay and the fact there was no game timer meant I could freely explore the whole game without any pressures. I must have played this game for hours and hours back when I was 7 years old in 1987.... pure nostalgia 😇🕹️👌
Loved that game back in the day. A mate of mine would play Cattelite while I played the Wizball. Many hours of fun and blaming each other for failure ensued.
Really original game. Great fun.
Ahh great stuff, was actually pretty cool playing 2 player mode wasn't it - spurred you on to continue and try to complete the game together 😇🕹️👌
@@CheekyCommodoreGamer Yeah, definitely one of my favourites, to the point that when I got the Amiga, I bought it for that too. C64 always held a special place in my heart though. The amount of games I had for that thing, both bought and pirated was obscene.
Sometimes I think half my youth was spent fucking around with a screwdriver adjusting the tape-deck azimuth to get games to load.
One of my favorite games of all time! Great video!
Thankyou - yeah definitely one of my favourite games of all time too😇🕹️👌
One of the very best games of the 8 bit era and superb on C64 with memorable visuals and some of the best sounds and music on the machine. Once you got from Cauldron 2 control to getting the first pearl and powering up it was a joy to play. Do I remember right that a second player could control the Cat?
Thats right, the second player could control the cat - making it a pretty decent 2 x player game too - I used to play this with my pals back in the day 😇🕹️👌
My m8 and I played this and completed it, me as cat! Such an awesome game! thanks for the memory!
I tried playing this again recently on a 'Live' and I realised I suck at this now haha. As a Kid though I could sail through it. Like you said too, brilliant with a friend as you can work together as a team. Good memories 😇🕹👌
I'll be sure to add this to my things-to-play list. I never had a copy growing up, but I've heard a lot of good things about Wizball.
You wont regret it, such an absolute classic 😇🕹️👌
It's not the game that's overrated. It's the people....
I had some of my best gaming experiences playing this in co-op with a friend. This was soooo much better than the Amiga version. And the music..... ❤
You're right there. Can't please everybody huh. Miles better than the Amiga version - this Commodore 64 version has to be the definitive version 😇🕹👌
"a basic idea of gaming in the 80s was interacting with your dreams" Wow this is such an insightful remark. You are completely right. That's exactly what it felt like. It's a bit embarrassing to say but a lot of times I would inject myself into the character I was playing on the screen and imagine I was part of this amazing world which always so much more exciting than the real one. I was quite the daydreaming child when I was younger.
I was definitely a daydreamer, I was lost in a world of Commodore 64 games... and each of them had a resound impact on my youth in one way or another. Superb times back in the 80s... how I long for those days once more. Probably why I love the nostalgia and hopefully sharing some love for these games can bring back those happier times for many of us too😇🕹️👌
one of the best games ever made, miles better than the Amiga version aswell.
Has to be the definitive version on the Commodore 64, for sure 😇🕹👌
Literally my favourite game ever. Never beat it. I literally got taken out by the last 3 monsters trying to get the last few colour drops i needed. Took 2 hours. I was devasted. As you know no save states. Hard to find that time free without interuption as an adult.
You're right there, imagine having no saves or continues with games as epic as this in the modern era of games - I think kids would be smashing controllers up and down the country! Haha, we definitely had much more patience in the 80s 😇🕹️👌
Well, play it on an emulator, and you can save/pause all you want. You don't have to play through it all in one sitting anymore. I have a USB Competition Pro joystick I use for emulation, just like the good old days, microswitches and all. Sadly, noone has remade The Arcade in a USB version, which is a pity as that was by far my favourite joystick of the era.
Wholly original this needs a modern remake with oldskool gameplay and multi levels
I believe Jon Hare is going to be attending an event nearby soon and if I get the chance to talk to him I'm definitely going to suggest he considers revisiting this classic game for the modern systems 😇🕹️👌
The sequel is also like a fever dream, completely different, to everything, but I actually kinda liked it
Ah of course, Wizkid - I should definitely be revisiting that game for the Amiga someday in the future, for sure 😇🕹️👌
@CheekyCommodoreGamer I miss the days of just plain bizarre games, everything is so homogenised and formulaic now
Yup, every game seems to be a clone of the last one these days doesn't it 😇🕹️👌
Very unique gameplay. I will get my colour-blind brother a copy of this. :)
Awesome, also - I recommend Steve Davis Snooker. Just tell him that if he is struggling, the pink ball goes just in front of the reds 😇🕹️👌
You suspect they didn't read the manual? 🤣 Cracks never came with manuals.
You make quite a valid point there 😄🕹👌
To be fair though, if you just leave it on the title screen, it will cycle through several different screens explaining most of the game mechanics. There really isn't any great need for a separate manual.
I think I'm going to give this game a go. I remember playing it back in the day but like others have said, " you don't get game instructions on a c90 full of c64 games.
Very very true... a lot of the games my brother managed to get for us was on turbo load C64 casettes back in the day... the C90's that you mention - and in an era without the internet, we were pretty screwed without instructions for some of the games. Especially "Raid Over Moscow!" (opening the hangar bay doors) 😇🕹️👌
I know most people love this game but I just didn't like it . Tried loads of times
As u say written by the legends that were sensible software .loved the interview in this video, so much extra info from the guys themselves
It's always great to hear when the actual developers talk about their own games. That's why I love the @TheRetroHourPodcast as it definitely ticks every box for me with their amazing content and weekly retro news 😇🕹👌
I hated Wizball at first until I found out by chance how to activate the icons. My fault for being lazy and not reading instructions! But this game is legendary, I still like it today. Also, the music is brilliant
It's true for many who play this game for the first time that they're unaware of the 'joystick wiggle' to activate the power-ups! Completely different game when you get full control of your Wizball character. A legendary Sensible Software title 😇🕹👍
Looks like a good game.
Yeah this has to be one of the definitive 'top games' for the Commodore 64, a must play for sure 😇🕹️👌
The best bit is when you kill the other wizball and get a life. Good game
Great game, literally one of the best for the Commodore 64 by far 😇🕹️👌
some thoughts... So, the cover art is 10/10 would do magic in space with a cat. The idea, story and presentation are so unique and creative it gets points just for that. but the gameplay shines, it really gets the most out of the concept as it can. The music is just right and the sound is cool! Cheeky this is a must play for sure!! Why do i feel like this game would be a perfect tablet game? Thank you for showing this one off Cheeky, another Bangers and mash video sir!
Its awesome to me that you're loving the Commodore 64 games, nice! There's so many absolute bangers that definitely need to be played! Even after all these years 😇🕹️👌