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Review #8072 Kickball A fun diversion - play it just for kicks PCE 1990 Masaya Sports Sports › Other D 75 / 100 Good Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 4 / 5 Gameplay What a fun little baseball-like! It looks and feels like a Mario Baseball title and even includes characters from Masaya's other franchises, including Kaizo Shibbiman. The gameplay is incredibly simple - maybe even dumb. Pitching requires no skill whatsoever. Just position yourself laterally and roll the ball. Kicking require some timing by pressing II to run up and pressing again at the point of contact. The physics is actually good since the angle you approach the ball determines which direction it goes. But the ball rolls so slowly that you nearly always make contact. That means that virtually all of the experience...

Review #7004 Ballistix Balls Pong TG-16 1992 NEC Sports Sports › Other H 35 / 100 Horrible Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 2 / 5 Gameplay This is Air Hockey. In a video game sense, it's Windjammers, Sanrio World Smash Ball!, Firestriker, or just Fancy Pong. In this game you fire balls at the actual ball in hopes of knocking it into your opponent's goal. Three goals wins. From a gameplay perspective it's as shallow as it sounds. You can move your ball-shooter anywhere on screen, like you could in air hockey. The annoying thing is that the balls you shoot stay on screen and bounce around almost indefinitely. Will they hit "the ball" and change its trajectory? When will they go away? Why are they even there? Who knows. It's distracting at minimum and annoyi...

Review #4533 Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe The best handball game...for what it's worth Genesis 1991 Arena Sports Sports › Other H 32 / 100 Horrible Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 2 / 5 Gameplay Plays like Bill Laimbeer or Powerball - punch and pass the ball and attempt to throw it into the goal at the top of bottom of the court. Movement is far better and more satisfying than in either of those other games. You don't run significantly slower than your opponents like in those other games so the whole thing feels more fair. I wouldn't say it's good or fun. It's passable at best. The rules of the game are incomprehensible. Obviously the main goal is to score in the net but there seem to be other objectives such as throwing the ball against certain spots on the...

Review #4447 Powerball Fast Bill Laimbeer Genesis 1991 Namco Sports Sports › Other X 14 / 100 You've been warned Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay Plays a lot like Bill Laimbeer Basketball. The only difference is that it moves much more quickly. Well that and the goal is a wide soccer goal. So I guess this is actually handball instead of basketball. Speedball is also the same concept. Punch and pass are the only buttons. Opponents move faster than you do nearly impossible to score. 0 / 5 Level Design It's a court. No modes that I could find 0 / 5 Theme I'm so glad these futuristic sports games fell out of favor 1 / 5 Art Style Top down view. Looks...

Review #509 Space Football The other Air Hockey simulator SNES 1992 Triffix Sports Sports › Other H 25 / 100 Horrible Screenshot used for review/reference purposes. 1 / 5 Gameplay What is this game? The objective is to chase down, grab, and deliver the "ball" to one of two goals which are just a zone within the arena. You slide all over the place so tracking down the ball is insanely difficult. The ball can only be carried for about 3 seconds so you have to grab it when it's near the goal in order from score. The enemy AI is stupid and never scores. You can shoot a projectile but it doesn't seem to do anything. It doesn't hurt your opponent anyway. I'm not sure why it exists. And yeah, that's all there is to this game. 5 minutes of gameplay and you'll ne...