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{{InfoboxLost
{{InfoboxFound
|title=<center>Joe Ball's World</center>
|title=<center>Joe Ball's World</center>
|image=Joeballsworld.png
|image=Joeballsworld.png
|imagecaption=Title screen.
|imagecaption=Title screen.
|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
|status=<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> (shareware version)
}}  
<span style="color:gray">'''Existence Unconfirmed'''</span> (full version)
|datefound=2019 (Oldgames.ru post)
|foundby=<br>''raycool'', [https://old-games.ru/game/9131.html Oldgames.ru]
}}
'''''Joe Ball's World''''' is a Spanish platform game developed by Extreme Soft in 1994. Not much information about the game is known due to a lack of credible information and resources from its time which adds to its rarity.


'''Joe Ball's World''' is a Spanish platform game developed by Extreme Soft approximately in year 1994.<ref>[http://www.abandonsocios.org/index.php?topic=8850.0 Joe Ball's World Y Orbots The Game (thread) @abandonsocios.org] Retrieved 27 June 2017</ref>
==Availability==
In total, there are several references to this game on the internet that can be found through various forum threads and posts<ref>[http://abandonsocios.org/index.php?topic=8850.0 A thread on Abandonsocios about ''Joe Ball's World'' .] Retrieved 27 Jun '17</ref><ref>[http://computeremuzone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7699 A Computeremuzone forum thread on ''Joe Ball's World''.] Retrieved 27 Jun '17</ref>. Additionally, there is a gameplay video on YouTube by user [https://youtube.com/@StormSpirit86 Stormspirit 86] that was uploaded on January 22nd, 2010 which can be found below in the Gallery section of this article. It remained, prior to its discovery, the only video proof of its existence.


The game might have been named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ball an American serial killer].
On August 26th, 2024, Lost Media Wiki user JerryUlyanov found a working file of the game on a Russian DOS gaming website, Oldgames.ru<ref name="old">[https://old-games.ru/game/9131.html Oldgames.ru post about the game's discovery and various information about the game itself] Retrieved 16 Sep '24</ref>. According to the information given on the Oldgames.ru page<ref name="old" />, they were introduced to the game by an unknown gameplay video of the game in 2008 (unknown video has not been retrieved or has been known but is likely Stormspirit 86's video which was uploaded in 2010 due to it being linked in the Oldgames.ru page, this probability however cannot be certain). After multiple contacts with the person who had uploaded the gameplay footage in 2008, the person stated that they had lost the hard drive for the game.  


== Availability ==
11 years later, at an unknown date in 2019, Oldgames.ru user 'raycool' provided a working file for the game to Oldgames.ru.  Due to the website being relatively obscure by the public, however, its discovery would not be known until JerryUlyanov's discovery of the game on August 2024. The game has since been put on the Internet Archive by JerryUlyanov.


In total, there are several references to this game on the Internet.<ref>[http://www.abandonsocios.org/index.php?topic=8850.0 Joe Ball's World Y Orbots The Game (thread) @abandonsocios.org] Retrieved 27 June 2017</ref><ref>[http://computeremuzone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7699 Joe Ball's World (thread) @ http://computeremuzone.com] Retrieved 27 June 2017</ref> Additionally, there is a gameplay video on YouTube, which was added to the gallery section of this article.
===Full Version===
According to multiple mentions below Stormspirit86's video, the game that was uploaded to the Internet Archive was not the full version but is only a "shareware" version of the game. Due to the lack of credible information, the full version can only be listed as existence unconfirmed until further information on it resurfaces.


The game itself, however, is nowhere to be found on the Internet.
==Gallery==
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  |service1    =youtube
  |id1          =iOsZGixgV-E
  |description1 =Gameplay video.
}}


== Gallery ==
==External Link==
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: auto;"
*[https://archive.org/details/joe-balls-world-shareware ''Joe Ball's World'' on the Internet Archive uploaded by user JerryUlyanov.]
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| {{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOsZGixgV-E|320x240|center|Game-play video.}}
|}


== References ==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 03:57, 10 October 2024

Joeballsworld.png

Title screen.

Status: Found (shareware version) Existence Unconfirmed (full version)

Date found: 2019 (Oldgames.ru post)

Found by:
raycool, Oldgames.ru

Joe Ball's World is a Spanish platform game developed by Extreme Soft in 1994. Not much information about the game is known due to a lack of credible information and resources from its time which adds to its rarity.

Availability

In total, there are several references to this game on the internet that can be found through various forum threads and posts[1][2]. Additionally, there is a gameplay video on YouTube by user Stormspirit 86 that was uploaded on January 22nd, 2010 which can be found below in the Gallery section of this article. It remained, prior to its discovery, the only video proof of its existence.

On August 26th, 2024, Lost Media Wiki user JerryUlyanov found a working file of the game on a Russian DOS gaming website, Oldgames.ru[3]. According to the information given on the Oldgames.ru page[3], they were introduced to the game by an unknown gameplay video of the game in 2008 (unknown video has not been retrieved or has been known but is likely Stormspirit 86's video which was uploaded in 2010 due to it being linked in the Oldgames.ru page, this probability however cannot be certain). After multiple contacts with the person who had uploaded the gameplay footage in 2008, the person stated that they had lost the hard drive for the game.

11 years later, at an unknown date in 2019, Oldgames.ru user 'raycool' provided a working file for the game to Oldgames.ru. Due to the website being relatively obscure by the public, however, its discovery would not be known until JerryUlyanov's discovery of the game on August 2024. The game has since been put on the Internet Archive by JerryUlyanov.

Full Version

According to multiple mentions below Stormspirit86's video, the game that was uploaded to the Internet Archive was not the full version but is only a "shareware" version of the game. Due to the lack of credible information, the full version can only be listed as existence unconfirmed until further information on it resurfaces.

Gallery

Gameplay video.

External Link

References