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Ball Blazer FAQ
November 30, 2017
Daniel (DEngel) Engel
dan.engel.2017 [AT] gmail [DOT] com
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(A) TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Table of Contents
(A) This Table of Contents
(B) Controls
(C) The Game
(D) Experimental
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(B) CONTROLS
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The default controls for this game are as follows:
A - Shoots the ball when you are close enough to it.
B - Switches between option categories on settings screen.
Select - Pauses the game / changes settings (human/CPU, game time).
Start - Starts the game under default settings (3 mins, Human VS Human).
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(C) THE GAME
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Bricklayer J. Gastronomy
*AUTHOR'S NOTE*
This game is short and really bad, I can't believe it exists and I hope no one
paid any kind of series money for it. There, now that's out of the way, lets
blaze some balls.
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Overview
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This strange game reminds me of a 3D tech demo on the NES, it's similar to
soccer in a very basic form.
You control a player than cannot turn his body so he always faces the direction
of the net that he needs to score on. Your opponent is the same and he always
faces your goal.
You can both move in four directions but you will always face forward, so in
that respect the game is slightly confusing.
To make things even more complicated the two goals are not in one spot, rather
they constantly move from left to right and vice-versa at each end of the
playing field.
Otherwise it's just two players, the two goals and a ball. There's not a lot
to say about the ball really, once you find it and get close enough the ball
will follow you around (you may actually be holding/dribbling it but it's hard
to tell).
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Scoring
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If you dribble the ball into the goal without shooting it you get one point,
it's kind of silly though because this is usually more work than shooting the
ball in.
If you manage to shoot the ball in the goal though you will get two points
instead of one.
Also the more goals you get the smaller the goal area becomes, which creates a
nice handicap to let the other player catch up.
The first player to score ten points wins the game, alternately the player with
the most points when time runs out will win.
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Strategy
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First thing you want to do when the game starts is GET TO THE BALL FIRST! If
you can do that you'll have a good chance at USING the ball to score. If the
other player manages to get the ball first you need to chase after him. Once
you get close enough press A to hopefully knock the ball away from him, then
grab it yourself.
Naturally it doesn't make sense to shoot the ball if the other player is
between you and the net, so try your best to out-maneuver him before shooting.
Other than that there isn't a whole lot to this game, it is kind of cool to see
that the NES could handle some limited 3D effects though.
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(D) EXPERIMENTAL
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~Dan
