Magic Ball

**Magic Ball** is an Arcade Game Developed by Dream Dale and Published by Alawar Entertainment and Released on January 27th, 2004, This Game was Available to Download Until Being Removed Either in 2008-2009.

## Magic Ball

### Genre

Arcade

Start exercising your wrist muscles - this addictive brick-breaker will put your mouse-clicking stamina to the test. Stunning 3D graphics bring the action to vivid life, while power-ups abound to help . . . or hurt. The original hit plus three extra bonus pack means hours and hours of exciting play. A marvelously modern version of classic arcade action, Magic Ball Deluxe will bend your brain while dazzling your senses.

## Overview

There are four level packs to choose from: the original level pack with 150 levels, and three bonus level packs.

Select a level pack to start playing. To save your progress, press Esc to pause, then S. To load your saved game, press L while on the pause screen.

Every game starts with three lives (displayed as two for some reason), represented by hearts on the bottom left corner of the screen. If you lose all of them, the game is over.

Clear all of the bricks or grab a yellow "Next level" powerup to advance to the next level. The Next Level powerup appears when there's four or less bricks remaining, not counting steel or glass bricks.

The game ends either when you lose all your lives or when you complete all levels in the level pack. Any lives remaining after completing all the levels will be multiplied by 1,000 and added to your final score. So if you had 7 lives left after completing all levels, you would get 7,000 bonus points.

There are powerups, both good and bad, that can randomly appear when a brick is broken.

## Powerups

* Increase Bat Size: Increases the size of the bat. Multiple can be collected to keep growing your bat bigger. (1 point)
* Decrease Bat Size: Decreases the size of the bat. There is a limit on how small your bat can be. (5 points)
* Normal Ball to PowerBall: Turns the ball into a PowerBall allowing it to cut through bricks easily. (4 points)
* PowerBall to Normal Ball: Turns the ball back into a normal ball. (9 points)
* Normal Ball to Explosive: Turns the ball into an explosive ball, allowing it to break clusters of bricks easily. (4 points)
* Explosive Ball to Simple: Turns off the ball's explosive power. (9 points)
* Ball Speed Up: Speeds up the ball. (5 points)
* Ball Slow Down: Slows down the ball. (2 points)
* Triple Ball: Splits all balls on the screen into three balls each. (10 points)
* Bright Light: Sets the brightness to the highest level. (5 points)
* Darkness: Sets the brightness to the lowest level. (16 points)
* More Light: Sets the brightness a little bit brighter. (6 points)
* Less Light: Sets the brightness a little bit darker. (12 points)
* Magnet: Gives you a magnet that lets you stick the ball on the bat. (8 points)
* Bullets: Gives you bullets that you can shoot at the bricks to destroy them. (10 points)
* Rockets: Gives you rockets you can shoot at the bricks to destroy clusters of them. (10 points)
* Torpedoes: Gives you torpedoes you can shoot at bricks and the torpedo will pass through them easily. (10 points)
* Jack the Bat Killer: Causes an instant death when touched. (20 points)
* Extra Life: Gives you an extra life. You can have up to nine, which is displayed as eight on the screen. (5 points)
* Next Level: Takes you to the next level. Appears only when there's four or less bricks remaining. (50 points)
* Board Vibration: Vibrates the board, making things harder to control. (35 points)
* R, A, I, N, B, O, W letters: Collect all of these letters to spell RAINBOW and earn a bonus. (1 point each)

## Trivia

* You can type accented letters in your high score name by pressing the F1-F12 keys on your keyboard. Press F8 to type a checkmark.
* The RealArcade version (v1.8) has a glitch where accented letters appear as random Russian/Cyrillic characters, and the X box and check box appear as a capital and lowercase respectively Cyrillic letter Ye.
	+ One example of this is if you set the language to French, the first option shows "COMMEN3E LE JEU", where 3 is supposed to be a capital Ç.
	+ Another example is if you set the language to German, "HAUPTMENÜ" displays as "HAUPTMENb".

## Availability Status

As of December 18th, 2020, The RGS File of Magic Ball Has been Found and Archived.