Balance box art

Balance

MSX · 1985 · JP

Also known as: Calcul (FR)

HAL Laboratory HAL Laboratory Educational

Publisher: HAL Laboratory · Developer: HAL Laboratory · Genre: Educational

This German game of dexterity delivers what the title promises. Balance is a lesson in applied gravity: guide a ball to one or more targets by tilting the plane it sits on, much like in those little plastic toys that drive you insane. A simple premise made challenging by tricky, maze-like level layouts that go beyond the "A to B" routine, but require you to touch a certain number of target tiles in no particular order. You must reach all targets in limited time, or else you have to start over. If the ball falls off the edge, one of ten lives is lost. Special fields such as jumpers, accelerators or crumbling tiles test your reflexes; some levels even rotate. Balance uses vector graphics to draw flat, untextured fields on which the ball rolls. The plane is tilted with the mouse. Every few levels, you get a password to jump directly to that map. Even so, Balance is extremely difficult and only recommended for players with *a lot* of patience.

Known dumps

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6DB125D7 B9B7320CFA86… 8,192 jp no-intro
CDABD75B 9C3C4F7C76CE… 8,192 jp no-intro
86EA609D EBC0C1A77E9E… 16,384 jp no-intro
D8349993 65F9067CDCB9… 16,384 jp no-intro
336FDCD9 B74E3A747D1A… 8,192 jp no-intro

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