A new hope?

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » March 4th, 2007, 10:28

http://www.gamershell.com/companies/fro ... 36231.html

Good lord I hope they make a good job of this. I absolutely *heart* this game.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » March 4th, 2007, 12:37

Holy fucknuts batman!

Now, I knew this was in development, but I'd forgotten about it, and I'm soo glad it's going to see a release.

Although it's a remake, perhaps it should be called Speedball 3, Speedball 2 is just such an ace game I don't want to see it's named tarnished.

It should also make a great 5punk game *hint hint*

Post by **Dog Pants** » March 4th, 2007, 13:42

Oh man, I loved Speedball 2. I hope they keep the intro music.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » March 4th, 2007, 14:03

ICE CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAM

Post by **Joose** » March 4th, 2007, 14:40

Holy bloody jesus, I hope they do this right.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » April 16th, 2007, 15:22

http://www.speedball2.com/en/forum.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLtBmNSkPc0

/me gets very giddy and excited

(and prepared to be disappointed)

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 16th, 2007, 16:45

Doesn't show much in the video, but I'm glad to hear the ice cream guy again. Hope that's not a preview of the music though.

Post by **Joose** » April 16th, 2007, 20:16

The icecream guy almost made me sex-wee.

As for the music: Advantage #1 of having the most eclectic music tastes evar: not being put off things because of the music.

MIkkyo · Post by **MIkkyo** » April 16th, 2007, 23:55

is this a sequel to the game that was out on the game that was out on the xbox?

Post by **Joose** » April 17th, 2007, 6:49

MIkkyo wrote:is this a sequel to the game that was out on the game that was out on the xbox?

ty? is that you?

just to cover the most likely answer: the original game is Old™, came out waaaay before such sillinesses as the xbox. I had it on my amiga, not sure if it came out on other platorms too.

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 17th, 2007, 7:06

You could get it on the Megadrive too, but it was all cutesy I think. Even back then console ports weren't very good. Before that there was Speedball, also on the Amiga, where you played as Brutal Deluxe - the big bad final team in Speedball 2.

Post by **fabyak** » April 17th, 2007, 7:40

You played as Brutal Deluxe in SB2, the final team was... something oriental sounding i'm sure

I used to love this game

and once I figured out how to do the sly side shots I would pwn everyone bar the last team, who I would pwn once I had ice creamed their keeper

*ICE CREAM*

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 17th, 2007, 8:39

Seems you're right. I'm sure the team you play in Speedball is the final team in Speedball 2 though. I can't for the life of me remember any of the other teams though. Revolver? Wasn't that one?

EDIT: Fuck yeah, I'm good.

Brutal Deluxe
Revolver
Steel Fury
Damocles
Violent Desire
Turbo Hammers
Renegades
Rage 2000
Raw Messiahs
Super Nashwan (the final team, but not the one from Speedball)
Fatal Justice
Lethal Formula
Baroque
Mean Machine
Explosive Lords

Post by **fabyak** » April 17th, 2007, 9:07

Super Nashwan! That's the badger

ICE CREAM

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 17th, 2007, 9:15

Apparently Super Nashwan was something from Xenon II.

EDIT: Also, whoever's doing Speedball 2 bought the right to The Chaos Engine as well.

Post by **fabyak** » April 17th, 2007, 10:20

oooooooooooo

PARTY POWER

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » April 17th, 2007, 10:23

Dog Pants wrote:EDIT: Also, whoever's doing Speedball 2 bought the right to The Chaos Engine as well.

What for? Why can't these people think up some original ideas.

Post by **Dog Pants** » April 17th, 2007, 11:55

spoodie wrote:

What for? Why can't these people think up some original ideas.

Of course not. I think there's nothing wrong with going back to some of the good ideas of the past and implementing them with new game design and technology. Lets face it, Chaos Engine was just Gauntlet. The story was interesting though and it might make a good base for a modern game (similar sort of setting to Bioshock).

Post by **Joose** » April 17th, 2007, 17:27

Dog Pants wrote:Lets face it, Chaos Engine was just Gauntlet. The story was interesting though and it might make a good base for a modern game (similar sort of setting to Bioshock).

this.

Im all for new ideas, but I dont see why we cant have new ideas as well as improving on good old ideas.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » April 17th, 2007, 18:45

That's it, I was watching the links, even commented on the youtube vid of the mega drive.

And I'm hijacking this thread as a bout of nostalgia which can make you all jealous!

Lo and behold! :

The above is my modded cd32 of doom. Not quite the expansion I want as it's using the standard chip, s' got an fpu in it and currently running an extra 4 megs of ram, got an 8 meg stick ready to put in.

I might fork out for a different type of expansion (which is shit hot faster) and ANOTHER cd32 (for a grand total of 3 of the brutes)

Spot the Speedball 2 copy, which is about the only relevent section.

The Commdore Cupboard:

Not all mine, and one of the 5 c64's there is non functional, it's just there in storage before I solder some serial ports off the back to replace a couple of damaged ones on another one.

And I suppose I should give that decent tennis racket a work out one day.