Off the Wall is a sports game that combines elements of racquetball and tennis. The game characters are moved between the net and their rear wall with a two-position joystick. A trackwheel is used to control the paddle that hits the ball. The game may be played by one player against the computer or by two players against each other. A game is over when one player scores 11 points.
The first release of Snooker by Amsoft. After obtaining the license to use snooker champion Alex Higgins shortly after release, the game was pulled and reissued with the title 'Alex Higgins' World Snooker'.
Match Point is a tennis video game released in 1984–1985 for the Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and Sinclair QL by Psion and other publishers and, under the title Tournament Tennis, on ColecoVision , Commodore 64 and MS-DOS by Imagic. It was also published for Thomson TO7, Thomson MO6 and Thomson MO5 under the title Super Tennis. Some editions for Atari ST, Commodore 64 (on cartridge) and DOS used the simple title Tennis.
It's time to go down your local alley and have a game of bowling. The game is viewed from behind your bowler at a slight elevated angle. Before you bowl you can move your bowler left or right to get the perfect position. There is an option to choose which angle to bowl by pressing the + or - key and also which hand you want by pressing R or L. To bowl the ball when you are happy, you move the joystick forward and press the fire button to release the ball. You can't release the ball while not running. Don't go forward too far or it's a foul. The usual scoring is worked out by the computer. Here's to scoring 300.