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1988 · Fighting · Sports

Skateball

Skateball is a violent futuristic sport, part ice skating, part soccer. A match is played by two teams of three players each, one of them a goalkeeper, on an ice court with steel walls, and a single ball. The objective of Skateball is to score five goals or kill the three players of the opposite team. To achieve this, there are no rules and any kind of contact is allowed. There are several different courts with holes and other lethal obstacles.

Released
1988
Platforms
Amstrad CPCAtari ST/STECommodore 64Commodore C64/128/MAXMS-DOSZX Spectrum
Genres
FightingSports
Developers
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Publishers
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Modes
Single-player
Country
France

About

Skateball is a video game developed by Ubi Soft. It features a violent futuristic sports game part ice skating, part soccer. It was released in 1989 for the Amstrad CPC and GX4000, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.

In 1990, Ubi Soft re-issued the game with a new title: Skate Wars. This title was also used by Ocean Software for the 1992 budget release on their Hit Squad label.

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

A Skateball match is played by two teams on an ice court with steel walls and ball. There are several different courts with holes and other lethal obstacles. The game lacks any rules and any kind of contact is allowed.

The game can be played by one or two players. Each team has three players, one of them a goalkeeper. The object of the game is to score five goals or kill the three players of the opposite team.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
ZX Spectrum1 February 1988Worldwide
Amstrad CPC1 February 1988Worldwide
Atari ST/STE1 February 1988Worldwide
Commodore C64/128/MAX1 February 1988Worldwide

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