Reviews

Although it might put the least patient player off, Wizball is a highly rewarding experience in the long run. You must guide a wizard traveling inside a sort of head-shaped spacecraft in order to restore the colors to a land which was deprived from them by an evil power. You must collect power-ups even to let you actually control your craft and to call your Catelite - a smaller ship with your trusty cat as a pilot - which is required to collect the color drops you need to perform your task. To activate power-ups you must rapidly press the left and right keys, or waggle your joystick, à la Daley Thompson.

Nice and smooth graphics, lovely tunes (on 128K!), fast action - which becomes really hectic in later levels - and a quite original mix of traditional (the power-ups) and innovative game mechanics make Wizball a sure classic. The only differences with the first version of the game, made for the C64, are the absence of the bonus level and of the death animation, but they are just niggles when compared with the sheer brilliance of the gameplay. Moreover, I found the bonus level on the C64 a bit of a nuisance, since it breaks the whole action, so I personally do not miss it at all.

A true classic.

Amazing conversion from C64 game.
The smoothness and speed of the scroll is a wonder.
Wizball and Uridium are exemplary conversions. They bright on Spectrum, and are not mere translations of the game.

The game itself is a flamboyant vision of Defender, with a tremendous amount of originality and fun.

reading about Cauldron II, I have remembered those games where you play something with dreadful non-stop bouncing. Really, they are difficult



this one in particular seemed like a moderately good idea in principle but is poorly implemented . In the technical aspect but also in other more subjective such as addiction or gameplay


Finally, the appearance in the scenery of those statues commemorating genocidal terrorists, ends up ruining it.

1.75/5
I want, however, to remember one that was well implemented ,Impossaball