Name: LGR - ボールゲーム。MS-DOS ボールバスターアクション (LGR - The Ball Game: MS-DOS Ball Busting ACTION)
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You know, it's not just the words themselves that make this sound suggestive, it's more

You know like, if you just say “hey did you see the ball game last night,”

But if you say “do you want to play The BALL Game?” it’s like, “ooh, maybe,

And I’m not just trying to be lewd, the back of the box straight up says The Ball

That reminds me of the board game from 1975, Ball Buster...

Commercial narrator: "Make offensive and defensive moves!"

"Then try to bust your opponents' balls."

They knew what they were doing there, and they knew it here too.

I mean there's a flaming naked guy on the front of the box.

There's also a frozen naked guy with some icy butt action going on.

Well, it’s a 1991 MS-DOS PC game from the UK-based Electronic Zoo,

and I have Joshua to thank for donating it.

Josh sent a bunch of neat computer games my way a while back, and while there were several

that I found intriguing, for whatever reason The Ball Game stood out.

Couldn’t tell you why, it’s a real mystery.

The Game of Balls comes in one of these small boxes that was popular for Amiga and Atari ST

games in the UK and Europe for a while, which makes sense as this was

But as mentioned earlier, this is the DOS version for IBM PC-compatibles, distributed

And the documentation is pretty standard fare for these kinds of releases; just a thin,

multilanguage black and white booklet that provides the basics of gameplay and a strategic

The Ball Game begins with a bunch of blue balls, har har

Oh that was Tim and Jules, you know them!

After that charmingly amiable introduction, you’re dropped into a rather dark and stark

menu with an assortment of function key options.

And without actually playing the game first it’s not very useful to mess with anything

here yet, so just press F9 to start playing.

Not quite sure what I was expecting, but this wasn't it.

Not only has that ball bouncing FM synth music been replaced by silence and PC speaker noises,

but there’s precious little ball-busting action happening.

zero balls busted throughout the entirety of this game.

In fact, despite the suggestive name and marketing,

The Ball Game is about as tame a game as you can ask for.

So much so that I am now questioning whether or not it’s

Lemme go clear my head, I’ll be right back...

Yes, the distinct lack of ball-busting action.

Ah I like that better, yeah. It's really the LACKTION of any kind.

The Ball Game is not an action game, but rather a virtual board game of strategy and tactics.

And a rather simple one at that, as there are only two ways to interact with it.

Regardless of how you choose to control things, be it the mouse or the keyboard or a joystick,

The Ball Game gives you one button for choosing your move and one button for making your move.

When it’s your turn, press the movement key to rotate through a selection of possible

moves highlighted on the board, and then press the select key to make it happen.

The entire rest of The Ball Game depends on what

order you make those two decisions for each turn.

As you might’ve guessed just by looking at the footage, the goal of The Ball Game

is to have the most number of your color of balls on the board.

You can only move in the four cardinal directions on an isometric plane, there’s no diagonal

movement, and you can only move one or two spaces at a time normally.

Moving one space will blorp a ball behind where you just moved from, and moving two

spaces will activate a jetpack and then set you down with no balls being placed.

But if you land in a space next to an opponent’s balls, then each of those balls will be converted

to your balls, even those diagonal to you.

And if you can’t make a move or a jump, you can press the select key to teleport to

Once you run out of moves, your game is over, and whoever has the most balls with the most

The Ball Game is one of those grid-based Reversi-inspired thingies where you always have to think a

couple steps ahead or you’ll screw yourself over quickly.

It reminds me an awful lot of the game Spot from a year before.

No, not “Cool Spot,” just “Spot.”

To be more specific, games like Spot and The Ball Game share

the same core DNA as the arcade game Ataxx.

That is, they’re all video board games with players starting off in a corner, with the

goal being to strategically touch pieces with your own and convert its color.

But The Ball Game is still its own thing in the sense that it’s got balls.

Blue balls, red balls, dark blue and red balls, just lots of balls.

But none of them are busting and I feel deceived.

For that matter, where are the naked dudes on fire and stuff?

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