Plazma Ball
Alternative title: Blood Bowl  (posssible early title)
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Plazma Ball is a tactical, turn-based American Football game. Each team has 16 athletes (eleven on the field) and in each round, the player may move between zero and all of them. Other options are blocking another athlete or setting up a ball throw (if it is in possession). Before the match starts, both players also have the opportunity to set up their teams within an 50 yards radius. The outcomes of throwing attempts and fights between athletes are calculated from their statistics.

The game is played within a league of four divisions (four teams each) and up to two players can take control over one team each.

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Blood Bowl

1990 Tynesoft
Status: No Download, Findability: 1/5

Coding: Ian Davison (?), Alan Mitchell (?), Michael Hedley (?)
Graphics: Unknown
Sound: Unknown

A Games Workshop board game of sorts by Tynesoft in their dying days I think.

The game was first mentioned in around 1989 with Paul Rand from Zzap 64 talking about seeing the preview version in its early stages. He didn’t give too much away about the game at the time, but readers anticipated a release soon.

It wasn’t until around August 1990, almost a year afterwards, that Zzap announced that Tynesoft had closed its doors, whilst still working on Blood Bowl. No doubt had the company continued, the game would have been released.

It is assumed that due to the long development of the game, it must have been in a very late stage of development. Though why it took this long to produce is anyone’s guess.

We have no names of developers, but it could be well assumed that some of the developers were those who worked on the other Tynesoft games at the time. The very same developers who *might* have worked on that bizzare Graham Gooch WC Cricket game which is also in the archives.

There is no indication of how this game was really shaping up, how it played or anything else. However, Andrew Fisher located a game in Gamebase which seems to fit the general idea of Blood Bowl, called Plasma Ball which can be found in Gamebase.

The Plasma Ball game seems to be played on a very similiar style of grid, which suggests it could be the same game. Why and how did it surface?… We are not quite sure, but before we close the case in any shape or form, we need to try and find out more about both releases. Still with no credits for either title, this could still be a lot of searching. Do you know more?…

Let the search begin!…


http://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/blood-bowl/
