Posted By
Csabo
on 2025-05-12
13:04:56
|  Re: Digital Ball
Digital Ball: A closer look(tm)
We had a cover scan for this game, but it was overexposed. However, siz got his hand on a copy of the original cassette and scanned the cover, it's now up on the site in its full glory.
I decided to take a closer look at the game again, and found some (hopefully) interesting things:
- I'm assuming the cover artwork (painting?) was commissioned by Novotrade and had nothing to do with The Mad (the author). There's a signature on the side, but it's very hard to make out. "Hojner"? "Haiman"? Maybe someone knows this artist...
- The cover says 50 levels, but the site said 32 levels. I checked this again, apparently there's 33 actually. You can see them all online now here. The Mad apparently liked rap? 
- Just noticed that the game has some hidden text, from $8B00 (never shown or used):
And from $8C00, the screen layout includes a Hungarian message, also never shown:
("Mit kukucskálsz?" Translation: What are you peeking at?)
"501's" also appears in the bonus game, and "501" appears on level 04.
While not the best breakout game for Plus/4, I still think this is a cool game. 1 |
