Cyberball has a new look this year, including: simplified play for beginners, new special challenge game, improved robot buy feature, new robot, new teams and 150 new plays (for a total of 250).
TECHNICAL Owners of the original "Cyberball" cabinets could upgrade to Cyberball 2072 via an Atari Games-produced piggyback board which updated the old Cyberball units to 2072 version.
TRIVIA Cyberball 2072 was released in August 1989.
Default highscore contains nicknames in homage for other Atari games including:
PAPERBOY for "Paperboy"
ASTEROID for "Asteroids"
GAUNTLET for "Gauntlet"
GRAVITAR for "Gravitar"
TEMPEST for "Tempest"
CENTIPED for "Centipede"
STARWARS for "Star Wars"
AKKAARRH for "Akka Arrh"
TOOBIN for "Toobin'"
ESCAPE for "Escape From The Planet of the Robot Monsters".
UPDATES REVISION 1:
Build date: OP SYS 22AUG1989 17:15:27 / MAIN 23AUG1989 09:55:00
REVISION 2:
Build date: OP SYS 22AUG1989 17:15:27 / MAIN 01SEP1989 15:00:16
REVISION 3:
Build date: OP SYS 22AUG1989 17:15:27 / MAIN 12SEP1989 20:31:11
REVISION 4:
Build date: OP SYS 13OCT1989 14:18:50 / MAIN 13OCT1989 15:34:05
SERIES
Cyberball - Football in the 21st Century (1988)
Cyberball 2072 (1989)
Tournament Cyberball 2072 (1989)
STAFF Programmer / designer: John Salwitz Artist / designer: Dave Ralston Technician: Rob Rowe Software support: Paul Kwinn Animators: Mark West, Will Noble, Deborah Short Audio group: Brad Fuller, Don Diekneite, Byron Sheppard Head coach: Chris Downend Product manager: Jerry Momoda Cabinet designer: Dave Cook Cabinet graphics: Atari Visual Communications Department Team leader: John Ray
PORTS
CONSOLES:
[AU] Sony PlayStation 2 (2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2" [US] Microsoft XBOX (oct.11, 2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model MWO-3201W]" [US] Nintendo GameCube (oct.11, 2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model DOL-GAYE-USA]" [US] Sony PS2 (oct.11, 2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model SLUS-20997]" [EU] Microsoft XBOX (oct.29, 2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2" [EU] Sony PS2 (oct.29, 2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model SLES-52844]" [US] Sony PSP (dec.13, 2005) "Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play [Model ULUS-10059]" [EU] Sony PSP (feb.24, 2006) "Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play [Model ULES-00180]" [US] Sony PSP [PSN] (june.28, 2010) "Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play" [US] [EU] Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] (sept.5, 2007): Retired in 2010.
COMPUTERS:
[US] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (feb.17, 2006) "Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition" [EU] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (mar.17, 2006) "Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition": by Zoo Digital Publishing.
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