Retro(game)spectives - Faceball 2000

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9/19/2010

The Game: Faceball 2000 (MIDI Maze)

Because they are faces. And they are also balls. Do you understand?

Release Year: 1992 (SNES Version)

Skewes: Atari ST, Atari 8-bit family, Game Boy, Game Gear, SNES

So what’s it like: “Faceball 2000” is a remade version of the 1987 Atari ST game “MIDI Maze.” It’s one of the earliest first-person shooters which has you, a customizable face, shooting balls at other faces.

Never has an enemy been more accurately named.

You traverse around different arenas killing a certain number of the other faces and collect upgrades. There is a story mode and a two-player verses mode, along with a secret arena mode. The controls are clunky, the graphics are terrible, the A.I. is either too dumb to do anything or ball-breakingly hard.

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Should you go back: No. This game doesn’t hold up at all. Everything about it is awful and I regret ever playing it as a child. I should’ve read a book.

Should this game be remade: No. With all the innovation in first person shooters, I don’t think there’s a place in this world for “Faceball 2000.”

Well at least he's nice about it