Airball

The Good
Ed Scio's graphics are the best Dragon users ever got. The sound is pretty impressive, although by 1987 there were a lot of games with excellent sound as people learnt how to produce music that sounded as if it were multi channel. The game is hard, and frankly rather frustrating, but that is the nature of the genre, really. A glorious game at the end of the 8 bit era.

The Bad
This game is hard, and I seem to recall the Trs-80/Dragon version cannot be completed with a Joystick- only the keyboard- which incidentally gives a much better gameplay experience anyway. There are some cheats out there for it- check back issues of Dragon User, which have been fully archived online. I would have liked to have seen the game in green/black, which would have been an option in the hi-res PAL Dragon mode, although I am grateful that neither full colour green or buff were options as these would have spoilt the magnificent graphics.

The Bottom Line
Ed Scio's masterpiece for the Dragon, so good it got converted to 16 bit. This was one of maybe three games I felt comfortable showing to Amiga owners.