Reviews

Easily one of the worst games ever made for the ZX Spectrum. I totally regreted buying this, I was pandering between this and Rick Dangerous and decided to go with Stop Ball. Safe to say I made a bad choice.

Everything about the game is dreadful, just what was with that long annoying 'vrooming' sound at the first screen, sounded like me after a curry! And was there any playability at all? In the first screen it's just you and the ball, THAT'S IT! Just stop the ball from hitting the ground until the time runs out. Next screen, not sure what you are supposed to do here, I believe you are meant to go to all four corners while avoiding the others ball. Touch any of the balls once and it's game over. It's not the difficulty that bothered me, it's how boring the gameplay was. And we all know that monochrome were at large with the Speccy, but having little to no colour at all made the screen very hard to look at.

With zero playability, zero colours and the most god-awful sound-FX in any game, Stop Ball should be left alone. I'm still looking my two quid back!

Everything is grey, there are balls everywhere, and now you're dead.
1/5

Juliet Software strikes again with yet another stinker. The sound effects are mental and the gameplay appears to be nonexistent. Why on earth did Mastertronic license this for UK release? Because of this it is by default their most famous game, which is ironic because it is possibly their worst as well. At least Eagle and Antares are games in the very least, this doesn't appear to be anything other than noise, confusion and bullshit.

How could anybody at Dro Soft or Mastertronic consider this pile of absolutely wasted code for commercial release is beyond me. There is practically no graphics, no sound (except for a couple of fart-like noises), no gameplay to speak of - nothing.
Some atrocious games like Sqij or LA Swat are so crap they even manage to be somewhat funny. This is not. It is just dire.