I played Speedball 2 also on my Amiga 500, it was awesome. Still have it but no screen where i could plug in the Amiga
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You dont know Speedball? Speedball was made by the Bitmap Brothers, and is considered to be one of the best sport games ever made. Speedball is a mix of handball/soccer and Rollerball (the old game style, not that from the new movie).
You played in a stadium a mix out of a Icehockey stadium. The ball was a steelball, which was shoot up into the air at the middle point, much like by basketball. You could slide into your enemy, or knock him off to gain the ball. The main goal was to get the ball into the enemies goal, but one the field there were also i think 4 stars that you could hit with the ball which gave you additional points. Four "button" that you could hit, that made the ball glow so no enemy could touch it anymore. on each side in the middle line such a small "rollercoaster" for the ball, which i think gave you also additional points, and from time to time at the ground lay special shields that you could pick up, that lead to bonus. Such when you picked up the Z all enemies felt down, which meaned you had for some time free play.
The players had skills and also a healthbar, meaning that it was possible to knock a enemy completly off and get him take away by those emergency "robots"? Which was quiet funny, most times then a guy screamed "Icecream, Icecream" if i understood it right.
Guess the sounds were important because they made that whole thing awesome funny, i still remeber each sound.
The game consisted out of several leagues (dont know how much, i never came past the second league, there i got always knocked back) and you also had to manage your team, buying players, buying equipment etc.
For my personal it is the best sport game ever released. Sure all this NHLs games are nice and some a very good, but its the sport that you can watch every day basicly in real. Having an science fiction sport gave the whole thing a great touch, which gives it a plus point, because really developers dont have to think much about the sport if they make a icehockey or soccer game, but if you develop a new sport.
As i said there was supposed to be a Speedball remake called Speedball Arena by the Bitmap Brothers, it was supposed to use the Unreal Tournament engine, but it somehow died
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http://www.bitmap-brothers.co.uk/downlo ... /index.htm
Here you find pics of the old game.
http://www.bitmap-brothers.co.uk/downlo ... /index.htm
That should have been the remake.
Depending that the site updating and it still states its being a future product of them, i would say that Bitmap Brothers has died.
Speedball has a lot of Rollerball in my eyes (world history etc). Which arent bad since i am a real fan of the Rollerball game (old style not new style that one sucks big)
Oh and thanks for the welcome!
PS: Btw, i may sound old because i know Rollerball and Speedball and still have a Amiga 500, but i am really just 20 years old and i am from Austria.
