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Remember Madballs with Babo Invasion for XBLA, PC

by Majed Athab on May 30th 2009 2:00AM

Remember Madballs? You know, those little ghoul-shaped spheres of rubber you kept on your toy shelf next to the Alf doll and Ghostbusters Proton Pack. Yeah, now you remember them. Well, guess what, they're back and this time they're hitting video games.

Canadian developer Playbrains will be bringing its take on the Madballs universe, Madballs in Babo: Invasion, to Steam and Xbox Live Arcade this summer. The game is a top-down shooter with randomly generated maps, 4-player co-op and 16-player multiplayer. Check out the screens below.

Gallery: Madballs In Babo: Invasion

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Tags: madballs, madballs-in-babo-invasions, Microsoft, playbrains, xbla, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (23)

How awesome is that!? I had a ton of these when I was a kid. Now all we need is some Visionaries love and I'll be happy.

I remember having just 2.. the purple cyclops on the far right, & the baseball one.. I had completely forgotton about these things.. It must of been 20 years ago by now... sheesh

I got the DVD of Visionaries.. Gotta wonder if they could do online multiplayer with that, couldn't have any character double ups.. Capture the Staff?

I remember the cartoon, but not the toys. It was pretty gross at times, and yet I still enjoyed it somehow.

i remember those. i would chuck'em at playmates

Wait wait wait....Madballs!?

I would've sooner expected a Teddy Ruxpin game. Note that I said "Expected" and not "Wanted". I've literally forgotten about those things!

With the whole monster collecting-and-trading phenomenon started with Pokemon, why didn't they just make a game based on the freakin' Garbage Pale Kids?

"Pail", but they could be Pale.

Other useless properties from the 80s I recommend for a game:

My Pet Monster:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1227/845207221_cd1fe02100.jpg

Food Fighters:
http://sativacyborg.com/images/foodfighters.jpg

Army Ants:
http://www.x-entertainment.com/pics5/toy3.jpg

But on a serious note, when do we get "Chuck Norris and the Karate Commandos"?

Only after we get an XBLA game based on the Barnyard Commandos.

I was going to mention barnyard commandos o_O

M.U.S.C.L.E. anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-n0ifQlVmo

First, great news.

Second, I sent in a tip about this game months ago. Madballs have been back in ball form at Toys R Us and Spencer's for over a year. The two new series of redesigned balls are great, and the upcoming third series looks cool.

http://madballscentral.blogspot.com/

Where is my Inhumanoids game?

Yes, this would be amazing!

Why not make a game about fucking go-bots while they're at it or ALF: Escape from Melmac.

to much cat murder maybe

But doesn't this game also have avatar deathmatch?

Gaaaah!! Nostalgia attack... I can't... breathe. SOMEONE FIND MY INHALER

Great reply system mixed up my posts.....

This is meant to say I only had 2 Oddballs.. the purple Cyclops & the baseball (or was it a tennisball??)..

I always thought Madballs was a ripoff of Garbage Pail Kids.

And someone mentioned M.U.S.C.L.E.S. - I've still got a pack of about 30 of those things. My nephews love 'em. Those were the last toys I remember buying... It was either that, or the old Worlds of Wonder Lazer Tag set. That was damn near 25 years ago.

Description fail. "Sphere-shaped ghouls of rubber" would have been so much more accurate.

the proton pack is *not* a toy.

I'll have to try this. I still have some of the old comics. Why the heck did I purchase those lol

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