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Help me find an old puzzle game (PC)

NightslyrNightslyr Registered User regular
I'm looking for an old puzzle game I used to play back in the Win 95/98 days. It featured a gray grid with bouncing balls. The objective was to erase/destroy parts of this grid by clicking on the screen, where a red and blue line would shoot out from either end of the mouse cursor. If the line successfully connected to both sides of the grid, that part of the grid would be destroyed, as well as anything to one side if no ball was there. If a ball hit the line as it was traveling across the screen, you'd lose a life. In order to advance to the next level, at least 75% must be cleared. Each new level adds a ball.

So, the basic strategy was to try to put each ball into their own 'room' and methodically trim each down until 75% was erased.

Any ideas? I used to play the shit out of it as a teen, but forgot the name.

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  • DaenrisDaenris Registered User regular
  • GriswoldGriswold that's rough, buddyRegistered User regular
    There have been a bunch of versions of this game, but yeah, Jezzball is probably what you know it as.

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  • DaenrisDaenris Registered User regular
    edited March 2013
    Also Qix and all its clones for a variant on the idea.

    Ed: That's actually how I found Jezzball. I immediately knew exactly the game (I think) you were talking about but couldn't remember the name. So I googled around a bit looking at Qix related links and pretty quickly found a site talking about both.

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  • NightslyrNightslyr Registered User regular
    Yes! JezzBall is it! Thanks, everyone! :)

  • BartholamueBartholamue Registered User regular
    edited March 2013
    I found it online here: http://onemorelevel.com/game/jezzball

    That's a pretty fun game.

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