WIZBALL
VARIOUS, 1987
Essex-based Sensible Software had already released shoot-’em-up Parallax with Ocean before 1987 brought this weird yet brilliant follow-up. Wizball is the story of Wiz and his magical cat, living happily in the vivid Wizworld until an evil wizard appears, draining every drop of colour from the landscape. Aghast at this drab world, Wiz sets out to collect the droplets of colour and restore Wizworld to its former glory. This unique, fun and slightly trippy shoot- ’em-up is rightly regarded as a classic on the Commodore 64, and Ocean’s 16-bit catalogue was also up and running.