#ballzooka

Everyone loves Nerf. Safe, brightly colored weaponry, that allows you to shoot at your friends and family without doing harm (unless you aim for the eyes). 

Back in 1994, Nerf dropped one of their mightiest guns ever seen at that time. The Ballzooka

Pump-action, rotating turret capable of firing up to 10 balls. Even describing it like that makes it sound beastly. The commercial  does a great job of selling it. Cool kid with a blonde bowl-cut, shooting balls at an AT-ST Walker, until it collapses. The Ballzooka should’ve been called the Ballpocalypse.

Nerf wanted to push the marketing just a bit further, and what better way to reach the 8 to15 year old demographic than to stick your product in a video game!?

Enter Bubsy 2, the sequel to the critically-acclaimed Bubsy: Claws Encounters of The Furred Kind. Nerf and Accolade reached an agreement to allow Bubsy to use the Ballzooka as one of his main weapons. 

Regardless of your feelings on Bubsy. You got to admit, that’s pretty friggin’ cool. Personally, I’m a fan of any game that allows you to use toys as weponry. 

Just in case you think it’s a coincidence, the Bubsy 2 box proudly displays the Nerf and Ballzooka name on the back of the box. 

Also, here’s a poster featuring Bubsy and a line-up of Accolade SNES titles next to a collection of Nerf products.

The relationship ended after Bubsy 2 and the Nerf gun was absent in Bubsy 3D. 

Bubsy 2 wasn’t the last time gamers would see the Ballzooka. Five years after Bubsy 2, Hasbro Interactive released Nerf Arena Blast for PC. A Quake-like FPS, designed for a younger audience that uses a variety of Nerf products to blast opponents with. 

‘Panzerschrek’

I've been getting complaints from beta testers that making the Ballzooka Balls yellow looks bad. Frankly, the yellow color was an old version, so yes, it did look pretty bad, like Nerf ball that has been in your gutter for a week.

But despite criticism I updated the yellow and it looks much better now. Some still hold the idea that they do not like the yellow. Let me offer the following arguments...

1) The Ballzooka and Pulsator use the same ammo, therefore the color of their ball-based primary fire projectiles should be the same.

2) An orange Bolo looks silly.

3) The Ballzooka skin shows yellow balls loaded in it!

4) The original Ballzooka and Pulsator were both sold with yellow balls.

5) I am Rajada, the only one in this community that knows enough script to fix this game up... therefore, what I say goes... okay, not really, I DO listen to you guys... but remember, I can code a check into the engine that checks your Name, IP address etc... and makes all your weapons explode when you fire them if you get on my bad side.