Pi-balled
Pi-balled is a video game written by Jason Austin for the ZX Spectrum and published by Automata UK in 1984. A Q*bert clone.
Also recorded as Piballed · Pi balled
Pi-balled
- Date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Automata UK
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Key facts
Key facts
• Title — Pi-balled • Publisher — Automata UK • Programmer — Jason Austin • Artist — Colin Tuck • Platforms — ZX Spectrum • Released — 1984
Gameplay
Gameplay
Pi-balled is a game in which the player avoids descending enemies while jumping between blocks on a pyramid and changing the colors on the cubes.
Reviews
Reviews
• Crash! - Apr, 1984 • Sinclair User - May, 1984
Reception
Noel Williams reviewed Pi-balled for Imagine magazine, and stated that "If you want another fast action, eyestraining, fingerbreaking activity, you'll enjoy this, but if it is your mind or imagination that needs the exercise, forget it."
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The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Pi-balled, revision 1329550439 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
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- 1.Williams, Noel. Game Reviews. Imagine. TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. 21. 24. December 1984.
- 2.Pi-Balled. Spectrum Computing.
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