When I agreed to edit Kotaku for a week, I didn’t realise writing bad Japanese poetry was part of the job description…
You know the drill: we write Haikus about old video games and leave it you to guess what game we’re talking about. Have at it in the comments section below!
A metal ball flies
Across steel, pain and ice cream
James Caan’s ghost lingers.
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Biker Mice from Mars
Speedball 2
SpeedBall
Twisted Metal?
Pinball dreams?
Speedball 2
Some kind of pinball game..
Roller Coaster Pinball Tycoon game thing?
Final Fantasy XII
Or was it Pinball Fantasies?
3d pinball – space cadet
Rocketball?
rollerball
Worms
Wow, I’m a bit late for this one but it’s definitely either Speedball or Rocketball, though I’m going for Rocketball as that was actually based on the James Caan movie. Also, there’s spectators, and I’m sure at least one of them would be eating ice cream!
It actually kind of sounds like Quidditch too…
I went Speedball 2 because that one had the ice cream vendor you could actually hear yelling “Ice cream! Ice cream!”
Also… I think the James Caan movie was Rollerball, not Rocketball?
Yeah I’m pretty sure it was only speedball 2 where you could hear the icecream man, mostly when players were being stretchered off as I recall
Yes, but Rocketball was still based on the movie. No idea why they changed the name!
Oh wow, first I’ve heard of the game Rocketball. Rollerball is one of my all-time favourite movies!
I wonder why they couldn’t use the same name as for all intents and purposes it is completely based on the movie, even down to the cover art mirroring a shot from the movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketball
ikr, it makes no sense! They must’ve lost so many sales through not branding it the same!
The movie studio must have denied the rights. It was an MGM movie from memory.
I’m assuming it’s one of the guesses that’s already been made, but I might go with Hyperblade.