speedball 2
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe on Xbox Live
November 8, 2007
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, I sometimes look back on playing the mighty game of Speedball on my Commodore Amiga 500 and think that this was one of the true gaming greats…for me at least!
Everyone has their favourite games that they look back upon and think, ‘wow, that was a good game, now that was a game I was great at playing!’ - there were many others even on the Amiga, but Speedball 2 was one of the major ones for me! I remember playing it against my friends, no-one ever beat me, they gave up playing me in the end - that may well have been the true pinnacle of my gaming success! Well maybe - nostalgia and all that!
Continue reading »Preview of Speedball 2: ‘Missing Subtitle’
May 2, 2007
A couple of months ago now I mentioned that the Commodore Amiga classic ‘Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe’ was going to get a re-make for the current generation of machines. Well the first details have now emerged over at Eurogamer.
The main points that stood out for me are that they’re having a retro style game mode that mirrors the old game with its simple controls and viewpoint (topdown) while also having a new more challenging for today’s gamers, controllers and machines, including a more 3D view of the arena.
Continue reading »I’ll tell you what we should do…we should play Speedball!
March 7, 2007
How spooky…
I made a comment about retro gaming over at Bill2Me dot com saying they should maybe do something with Speedball 2 - and so they should because it was one of the best games I ever played on my trusty Commodore Amiga.
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