Copied from nesworld.com:
Airball (Tengen)
"It's a new fantasy adventure game where you are turned into a pink bubble gum-like ball by an evil wizard. Find your way through 250 rooms of the mansion in search of the spellbook that can return you to human form so you can defeat the wizard!" - EGM20 (pg 94). Thanks Adam L!
"Among the independent, unlicensed companies, Tengen plans RBI Baseball III for the upcoming year, as well as Airball, an action game in which your character is cursed by an evil wizard and is turned into a bubblegum bubble with a slow leak." - Game Players Magazine March 1991 (pg 32).
$24 / $39: buy/sell price in Funco ad - Game Informer Nov/Dec 1991 (pg 18).
--- Two demo carts were discovered a few years ago, and the box pic was found in the Feb 1992 issue of GamePro. Although it wasn't released for the NES, you can find a review of the Atari 7800 version in Jul/Aug 1989 issue of GamePro.
--- The box scan below is a close-up from an ad in GamePro Feb 1991. It features much of Tengen's lineup, including two other unreleased NES games.
Pix: All ... ad ... box ... cart 1... cart 2... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6
So Gamepro reviewed the 7800 version and it was Atari/Tengen. Anyone know anything about this one? Curt, I don't suppose this is in one of your hard drives or boxes of discs? Circa 1989. The nes version never made it out either. Its sad that the print gamer mags are mostly gone. Mystery games like this and Nintendo's vaporware sequel to nes Donkey Kong are likely lost to time. DK really saddens me 'cause since I was a kid reading Nintendo Fun Club News and the Player's Guide, I desperately wanted to know what it could possibly look/play like.
Airball (Tengen)
"It's a new fantasy adventure game where you are turned into a pink bubble gum-like ball by an evil wizard. Find your way through 250 rooms of the mansion in search of the spellbook that can return you to human form so you can defeat the wizard!" - EGM20 (pg 94). Thanks Adam L!
"Among the independent, unlicensed companies, Tengen plans RBI Baseball III for the upcoming year, as well as Airball, an action game in which your character is cursed by an evil wizard and is turned into a bubblegum bubble with a slow leak." - Game Players Magazine March 1991 (pg 32).
$24 / $39: buy/sell price in Funco ad - Game Informer Nov/Dec 1991 (pg 18).
--- Two demo carts were discovered a few years ago, and the box pic was found in the Feb 1992 issue of GamePro. Although it wasn't released for the NES, you can find a review of the Atari 7800 version in Jul/Aug 1989 issue of GamePro.
--- The box scan below is a close-up from an ad in GamePro Feb 1991. It features much of Tengen's lineup, including two other unreleased NES games.
Pix: All ... ad ... box ... cart 1... cart 2... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6
So Gamepro reviewed the 7800 version and it was Atari/Tengen. Anyone know anything about this one? Curt, I don't suppose this is in one of your hard drives or boxes of discs? Circa 1989. The nes version never made it out either. Its sad that the print gamer mags are mostly gone. Mystery games like this and Nintendo's vaporware sequel to nes Donkey Kong are likely lost to time. DK really saddens me 'cause since I was a kid reading Nintendo Fun Club News and the Player's Guide, I desperately wanted to know what it could possibly look/play like.