Cyberball 2072

Sports/Football Robots 

Type of the game: [Coin-Op] Arcade Video Game
Cyberball 2072 © 1989 Atari Games Corp.

Cyberball has a new look this year, including : simplified play for beginners, new special challenge game, improved robot buy feature, new robot, new teams and 150 new plays (for a total of 250).

Owners of the original "Cyberball" cabinets could upgrade to Cyberball 2072 via an Atari Games-produced piggyback board which updated the old Cyberball units to 2072 version.

Main CPU : 68000 (@ 7.15909 Mhz), M6502 (@ 1.7895 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2151 (@ 3.579 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 9.037 Khz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1

Cyberball 2072 was released in November 1989.

Default highscore contains nicknames in homage for other Atari games including :
* PAPERBOY for "Paperboy"
* ASTEROID for "Asteroids"
* GAUNTLET for "Gauntlet"
* GRAVITAR for "Gravitar"
* TEMPEST for "Tempest"
* CENTIPED for "Centipede"
* STARWARS for "Star Wars"
* AKKAARRH for "Akka Arrh"
* TOOBIN for "Toobin'"
* ESCAPE for "Escape From The Planet of the Robot Monsters".

REVISION 1 :
* Build date : OP SYS 22AUG1989 17 :15 :27 / MAIN 23AUG1989 09 :55 :00

REVISION 2 :
* Build date : OP SYS 22AUG1989 17 :15 :27 / MAIN 01SEP1989 15 :00 :16

REVISION 3 :
* Build date : OP SYS 22AUG1989 17 :15 :27 / MAIN 12SEP1989 20 :31 :11

REVISION 4 :
* Build date : OP SYS 13OCT1989 14 :18 :50 / MAIN 13OCT1989 15 :34 :05

1. Cyberball - Football in the 21st Century (1988)
2. Cyberball 2072 (1989)
3. Tournament Cyberball 2072 (1989)

Programmer / Designer : John Salwitz
Artist / Designer : Davis A. Ralston
Physicist / Programmer : Paul kwinn
Hardware designer : Doug Snyder
Technician : Rob Rowe
Animators : Mark West, Will Noble, Deborah Short
Audio group : Brad Fuller, Hal Canon, Don Diekneite
Product manager : Jerry Momoda
Cabinet designer : Dave Coox
Cabinet graphics by Atari Visual Communications.

Consoles:

Sony PlayStation 2 [AU] (2004, "Midway Arcade Treasures 2")
Microsoft XBOX (October 11, 2004; "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model MWO-3201W]")
Sony PlayStation 2 (October 11, 2004; "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model SLUS-20997]")
Nintendo GameCube (October 14, 2004; "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model DOL-GAYE-USA]")
Microsoft XBOX (October 29, 2004; "Midway Arcade Treasures 2")
Sony PlayStation 2 (October 29, 2004; "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model SLES-52844]")
Sony PSP (December 13, 2005; "Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play [Model ULUS-10059]")
Sony PSP (February 24, 2006; "Midway Arcade Treasures: Extended Play [Model ULES-00180]")
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] (September 5, 2007) [retired in 2010]

Computers:

PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (February 17, 2006, "Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition")
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (March 17, 2006, "Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition")

Game's rom.
Game's picture.