Ballistix
Ballistix is a video game created by Martin Edmondson for the Amiga and Atari ST and published by Psyclapse in 1989. It was also converted to a number of other home computers in the same year and the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 console in 1991. It is a fictional futuristic sport involving directing a puck to a goal by shooting small balls at it.
Gameplay
The game is a unique futuristic sport which has been compared variously to pinball, the board game Crossfire and shove ha'penny. The player controls a cursor that can fire a stream of small balls. These are used to direct a puck across a court to score a goal. In the two-player game, this is hindered by your opponent, aiming for the opposite goal. In the single-player game, a form of gravity is the opposition.
The game starts with a simple court but it gets progressively more difficult with added obstacles, simple mazes and bonus items. There are 130 courts in total (64 on the C64, 30 on the BBC/Electron). A court is completed when either player scores three goals. If the computer wins in the single-player game, that is game over although the game can be restarted from the same court. Goals can score a range of points depending on how far out they are scored from.
Podcasts:
Ballistix
ALBUMS
- 2Step+Future Soul released:
2Step+Future Soul
- Future Soul (Vocal Mix)
- That's Me
- Da String Tune
- Bump'N'Grind (Sunship Mix)
- Too Much (Zoom & D.B.X. Mix)
- Keep On
- Burn It Up
- Brand New Flava (feat. MC E-LL)
- Dreams (Zoom & D.B.X. Mix)
- Why (Matt Jam Lamont & DJ Face Mix)
- I Need Your Love (DJ S.M.L. Mix)
- Believe
- Lyrikal Respect
- Ballistix
- Be Real (Street Edit)
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by Quasi
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by Erin McCarley
Please Do
by: QuasiYou never cried, you never froze
And yet how well your garden grows
You reap the fruits another sows:
I guess that works out well for you.
Suffering has served you well -
It's common but it somehow sells
So sing your little songs of hell and sell.
Hollow hopes and empty dreams
And blind pursuit of worthless schemes
That's all there is to life, it seems,