Name of puzzle game with a ball, nice visuals, nice music

Swoopie · Post by **Swoopie** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:45 am

Hi all,

Just bumped into this site after Googling a bit, hope you can help. I'm reviving old DOS games on my PC and am having trouble finding a specific game, also having trouble remembering all the details

It was some sort of puzzle game with a ball, involving physics as well. The only things I remember is that it had really nice relaxing music, pretty good visuals and involved a (glass?) ball that shattered into dust with a nice cristally sound when you died.

Wow, sorry for being so vague to not being able to give you much more to go on

, but I can't remember more details than this, just sort of the 'state of mind' the game brought me in when I was playing. I remember the game as a very 'crystal clear' game, a very clean playing experience.

Does this ring a bell with any of you? If I remember any more details I'll let you know, obviously.

Regards,
Swoopie

Post by **Larry Laffer** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:03 am

Maybe one of the Boulder Dash clones?

Swoopie · Post by **Swoopie** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:43 am

Hi Larry, thanks for the fast response. It was definitely not something like Boulder Dash, it's a totally different genre. More moving around a top-down field, solving puzzles. Hmmm, how am I going to put this... difficult, don't remember much to go on. I'll keep Googling and remembering though!

Post by **wardrich** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:11 am

Sounds a whole lot like Oxyd to me

Swoopie · Post by **Swoopie** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:33 am

Oxyd wasn't the game, checked a video on some site. Really frustrating I can't just remember some more details.

Oxyd looks like a cool game though

Swoopie · Post by **Swoopie** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:59 am

Nobody is less clueless than I am?

Quadko · Post by **Quadko** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:40 pm

Of course, there is the arcade game Marble Madness (that you shatter and get swept up if you fall too far), and MM has lots of knock-offs and followups on all platforms.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/marble-madness

And I know it's not Quadralien, but that is a fun magnet game with physics and rolling balls to distract yourself in your misery of forgetfulness:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/quadralien

Swoopie · Post by **Swoopie** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:14 am

Thanks for the suggestions, but indeed, those aren't it. Marble Madness I know indeed, fun game that was! Don't know Quadralien.

I'll keep searching. I strongly got the feeling it wasn't really a very known game.

What I didn't do so far is dig up all the old stuff from my dad's attic. He might have all that stuff still lying around.

Post by **emmzee** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:47 am

Helious?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/helio ... tId,66727/

http://www.dosgames.com/g_puz2.php

Swoopie · Post by **Swoopie** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:55 pm

Sorry again, nope, Helious isn't it either... awww man, I'm starting to feel guilty even for asking you and having to say 'no' over and over again

eyedreyes · Post by **eyedreyes** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:07 am

its called rollin

Post by **dosraider** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:51 pm

Rollin on Mobys:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/rollin

No Dos screenies, only C64 ones:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/rollin_/screenshots

Swoopie · Post by **Swoopie** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:15 pm

Hehe, sorry, guys, that's not it either. With 'nice visuals' I really mean 'nice' visuals. But ofcourse, nice is relative and subjective. I visited my parents today, asking where he put all the old games, but they are kind of 'out of reach' on the attic. And we're not sure if it's in there...

But we'll see, going to dig them up someday. Think my dad should have a ZIP disk somewhere with all the old games on them.

missy · Post by **missy** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:37 am

Endorfun?

Swoopie · Post by **Swoopie** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:01 pm

Hi Missy, thanks, but no, Endorfun is not it, don't know the game, but it seems to be about a cube, not so much about a ball...

Really cool that suggestions keep coming in. Wish it were easier to convince my parents to search through the boxes, or let me do it myself, but they're too afraid I might cause a mess

DaveM99 · Post by **DaveM99** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:38 pm

Was it DX-Ball, DX-Ball 2 or Super DX-Ball? sounds very like what your looking for, smashing glass, nice colors and music.

Quadko · Post by **Quadko** » Sun Aug 07, 2011 12:57 am

I just ran into AirBall for the first time. Might be worth a look.

And I've been assuming it's not WizBall or sequel WizKid, but since we've not found it yet, worth a mention.

Swoopie · Post by **Swoopie** » Sat Aug 20, 2011 5:11 pm

Nope, these aren't them indeed. I also vaguely remember some sort of 'name' to the game, so not a noun or a verb, but a name. OMG this is frustrating. My father actually has the ZIP disk with all the old games, but the ZIP drive is hard to find... otherwise we might have solved it already. If it's on there, that is.

windymage · Post by **windymage** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 11:24 pm

Hi, I am looking for a game that sounds similar to what you are describing. You mentioned a glass ball shattering, and in the game I am thinking of, your ball could be changed from rubber, steel, ice, glass, and possibly a few other type of materials. I vaguely remember elements of the game, such as spherical "gobbling" monsters that would swallow your ball, unless it was made of ice, which would cause it to slip out of it's mouth. The rubber ball could bounce off of walls and seemed to be the most used form. The steel ball could be manipulated by magnets in the levels, and I'm pretty sure there were bottomless holes or something to that effect.

One other thing I remember about the game, there were was like a green "mascot" elf character that was probably at the title screen and manipulated the controls located on a toolbar under the level (I'm not sure if you were supposed to be playing him or if he was a second character alongside whatever the player character was). He would sometimes "block" off the controls, such as the option to change the ball type during the level.

I never played this game, I only observed an older cousin play it when I was very young, but it looked very interesting and I never managed to remember the name. Does it sound like what you are looking for?

windymage · Post by **windymage** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:37 am

Nevermind, I found out what game it was (Wild Science Arcade).