celerystalker
01-22-2016, 12:58 AM
8428A port to the SNES of Taito's arcade game Cameltry, On the Ball is an odd sort of puzzle game that doesn't have a ton of imitators. On a 2D maze, your goal is to guide a ball to the goal of each level within a given time limit, accruing points along the way for high score. The catch, though, is that you don't control the focal point of the screen, the ball... you control the maze.
In one of the best uses of mode 7 graphics, you use the shoulder buttons to spin the maze clockwise or counter-clockwise, avoiding obastacles that will slow your progress, or worse, steal precious seconds off of your timer. There are four courses with several stages in each, and as you clear each stage, you carry remaining seconds over to the next within the same course. This is vital, as the time limits become increasingly stingy as the mazes become more complex.
On the Ball is a blast, and the original arcade game (Cameltry) can be found on Taito Legends 2 on PS2 in the US. I stumbled across this one in 1999 when I was working at FuncoLand, and I'd change out the games in the displays every day to keep things interesting, and I got hooked.
Anybody like it?
In one of the best uses of mode 7 graphics, you use the shoulder buttons to spin the maze clockwise or counter-clockwise, avoiding obastacles that will slow your progress, or worse, steal precious seconds off of your timer. There are four courses with several stages in each, and as you clear each stage, you carry remaining seconds over to the next within the same course. This is vital, as the time limits become increasingly stingy as the mazes become more complex.
On the Ball is a blast, and the original arcade game (Cameltry) can be found on Taito Legends 2 on PS2 in the US. I stumbled across this one in 1999 when I was working at FuncoLand, and I'd change out the games in the displays every day to keep things interesting, and I got hooked.
Anybody like it?