Help identify the name of this game please

[OldSchoolGamer]

There was this old computer game that I played in either 1990-1991 on a computer. I don't remember the name of the computer. I'm not positive about the name of the game but I thought it was called either:

Super Ball Bouncy Bounce

or

Super Ball Bounce

or something similiar to those titles. Or maybe that was just a header in the gameplay that I remember reading.

The gameplay consisted of you controlling a character that had a basket or pushing a carriage type thing and you would run left and right trying to catch balls that were bounching around the screen. The character you controlled was positioned at the bottom of the screen and you could only move horizontally left and right. There would be balls that would be bouncing all over the screen and you had to catch them in your basket/carriage. I'm not positive, but I think I remember the character that you controlled was a bear looking character... similiar looking like the Bernstein Bears.

I tried searching for the name of the game and I couldn't find out what the name was called.

Does anyone know the name of this game? It is the first computer game I've ever played and I would really love to beable to see/play this game again.

[BeyondTheStatic]

Hmm, I haven't played too many of the older computer games. It would help if you knew what kind of computer, or could describe the game's background, level arrangement, etc. I did find this:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/odysse...es/screenshots

Your character is a clown, though I suppose it could be interpreted as a bear

P.S. What did the graphics look like? Like Atari games? Commodore 64? Amiga? TRS-80? How many colors? How pixelated?

[OldSchoolGamer]

hmmm, it was so long ago. I was in 1st grade in 1990-1991. I believe the graphics were alittle bit better than that link you posted. What type of computers did public schools usually have back in 1990-1991?

[BeyondTheStatic]

before 1990, the schools I attended typically had Commodore 64s. I imagine any desktop computer would be used, so a given school at that time might have had Amigas, Tandys, Macs, maybe IBMs. Most Macs around that time had straight black/white graphics. The Tandy Color Computer 3s had a decent palette with reasonable screens resolutions, and could probably do a better job than that "Catch the Ball" screenshot I posted. I believe the Amigas outperformed everything during that time period, but I'm not really knowledgeable on the history of desktop computing.

That's about as much as I can help you ATP :/

[OldSchoolGamer]

ok thanks for trying. One last question, if it was an IBM computer, what platform would the game be under? DOS? Any other platform would it be under? http://www.mobygames.com/browse/games

Because I'm almost positive that my school only had macs and IBMs

[BeyondTheStatic]

Oh yeah, it would have most definitely been run under DOS if on an IBM. I think Windows might have eaten too many resources to run most games quickly, and DOS had little overhead.

There's always the chance it was an MSX... but evidently they were rarely found in the US. I wouldn't even know about MSXs if I hadn't played La Mulana

[macrox]

Just browsing around and found this post. It reminded me of this site where old PC games are archived.

http://www.abandonia.com/en/game/all

ciao