Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Besides buying the pre-release copy of Dyzonium, I also bought Astroball. >Both >>are cracking good games (as Wallace might say) and Balor Knight deserves >>credit for writing such good games for SAM. > >Balor received due credit (but sadly hardly any money!!) for Astroball as this >was >the game that impressed Probe Software to give him a job!!!<
I've played demos of both the Sam and Speccy versions of Astroball, though I never actually bought either. I liked the game, but I was mightily disappointed when someone said that the Space Invaders but wasn't in the Sam version... I did buy Dyzonium, though, and consider it to be one of the Sam's best games (not hard, considering it's competition as a shoot-'em-up). It's nice to see that good work on a (dare I say it) defunct machine can get you a fairly good job. Didn't Balor also work on the Playstation 'Fantastic Four' game, though..? Somewhat...less-than-Fantastic... but I won't begrudge him that.
