the July 1987 issue of Zzap!64 magazine with a rating of 96%, missing out on a "Gold Medal". In November the following year Wizball was selected by the same magazine the number one Shoot 'em Up for the Commodore 64, giving it a rating of 98% and a month later went on to be crowned the best game ever by Zzap!64, which Jon Hare has stated is one of his proudest career moments, but at the same time that they were disappointed by the sales of the title, attributing it to the marketing of Ocean Software. In a 2002 Zzap!64 tribute publication, Wizball via a community vote was ranked the second best C64 game ever with the comment "How it missed a Gold Medal back in issue 27 is beyond us". In a second Zzap!64 tribute in 2005, Gary Penn, editor at the magazine at the time of the game's publication was quoted to say: The Spectrum and 16 bit versions generally garnered favorable reviews, with Sinclair User giving it a perfect 10 and The Games Machine awarding the Amiga and Atari ST versions 87% and 84% respectively. Legacy In 1992, Sensible Software developed a sequel Wizkid: The Story of Wizball II published by Ocean Software. Although the story in Wizkid continues directly from Wizball, the actual games are only superficially related to each other. In 2007 Retrogamer, wrote on Wizball'': A fan remake for Microsoft Windows and macOS, based on the Commodore 64 version, was released in 2007. Due to MacOS going 64-bit exclusively from 10.15 Catalina onwards, the Mac version only works on machines running software as far as 10.14 Mojave. As of June 2021, the Windows version still runs on current iterations. References External links Wizball at Amiga Hall of Light Wizball Archived from the original at CPC Zone 1987 video games Amiga games Amstrad CPC games Atari ST games Commodore 64 games DOS games Horizontally scrolling shooters Ocean Software games Sensible Software Video games scored by Martin Galway ZX Spectrum games Video games developed in the United Kingdom