Airball

Information

Genre

Adventure / Arcade - 3-D

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick, Keyboard, Mouse

Players

1, 2 (alt.), Demo

Resolution

Low

Programmer(s)

Scio, Ed

Graphic Artist(s)

Lyon, Pete

Game design

Scott, Peter

Musician(s)

Shields, Paul

Sound FX

[unknown]

Dump

Missing dump(s)

Year

1987

Publisher

Microdeal

Developer

[n/a]

Software

English

Box/Instructions

English

License

Commercial

ST Type

ST, STe, TT, Falcon030, 0.5MB

Number of Disks

1, Single Sided

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 7.1/10 · Votes: 31 · Downloads: 0 · Hits: 13

Screenshots (12)

Trivia (2)

Conversion - Atari 8-bit

Releases

First 16-bit releases reviewed in UK Atari or multiformat magazines for Atari ST (7/1987), Amiga (5/1989)

Based on the review data, the Atari ST version was released first on the 16-bit market in Europe, and ported later for other 16-bit systems.
Source: Research of over 16700 software reviews from UK computer magazines between 1985 and 1996.

Book / Magazine Reviews (3)

Computer + Video Games (C+VG) · August, 1987 · Rating: 10/10

Atari ST User · August, 1987 · Rating: 9/10

The Games Machine · December, 1987 · Rating: 85%

Comments (3)

• Atari A to Z (Pete Davison) — 6 Jul 2022

  A classic isometric adventure featuring a rubber ball and an overly verbose Evil Wizard. It's Airball from Microdeal! Let's Play! https://youtu.be/2-JLW13QObw

• IntoTheVerticalBlank — 2 Jul 2022

  An exceptionally well crafted early ST game. Guide your bubble, that is slowly leaking air, through the isometric rooms to find objects and solve puzzles. The control is a little difficult because of the isometric nature of the rooms, and I wasn't able to find the ideal joystick position (yet) to have it move properly. Great music and well drawn graphics accompany this classic arcade puzzle.

• Fredrik Olsson — 17 Feb 2012

  Great game that also comes with a level editor. Think I spent more time with the level editor creating my own adventures, then I played the game.