Wizball (remake)

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For many years, Wiz and his magical cat lived happily in brightly
coloured Wizworld. All was not well however as a malevolent force
had discovered the vista and intended to stamp out brilliance
once and for all. The evil Zark and his horrible sprites have
moved in to eliminate the spectrum and render all landscpes drab
and grey. So jump in your transporter and with the help of your
faithful servant Catelite, restore Wizworld to its former glory.

The landscapes in Wizworld are comprised of three colours each.
Your task is to restore the original colours by shooting the Red,
Green and Blue colour bubbles and then using Cat to collect the
droplets of colour as they fall to the ground. Droplets collected
will be stored in the cauldron displayed at the bottom of the
screen, until such time as you have enough of each colour to make
the target colour displayed in the cauldron on the far bottom
right of the screen.

In the three levels which have aliens on: one has red, one has
green and one has blue. It is therefore necessary to move between
the three levels using the tunnels to collect all three colours.
To complete a level, you must colour in the whole landscape.
After each colour is collected there is a bonus stage. After
this, Wiz enters Wiz-Lab and is given a Wiz-Perk by his guardian
angel. You may select one weapon or control, which will be
magically endowed up on all subsequent Wizballs from birth, or
opt for the bonus of 1000 points x Wiz-Level number.

Wizball was originally designed by Jon Hare and Chris Yates. It was programmed by Chris Yates with graphics by Jon Hare. The original music was by Martin Galway.

This remake was done by Graham Goring (programming), Trevor Smiley (graphics) and Infamous (music).

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[Drasir-Vel]

Awesome game. I've been playing this for a while. And it's quite addicting. I have a highscore of 581930, and has gotten to the second set of levels. It's a bit annoying though, that you can select an item when pressing to the sides. In the bonus levels it's happened many times for me that i accidentally took an upgrade that i don't wanted, because i moved left and right sequentially.