Aug 4 2009Spaceball: Suck It, You'll Never Be Hallball!
Spaceball is hands down one of the most ridiculous looking games I've ever seen and costs $700. Plus, it sucks to always have to go retrieve the ball when you throw it out of the court. If you can call it a court. Which I just did, SO IT'S ALL GOOD BABY. Basically, you bounce around in there like an idiot and try to throw the ball through the hole in the middle and past your opponent. WHEE! Plus, it's endorsed by astronauts.
According to former astronaut Scott Carpenter, it's "the best conditioning exercise for space travel."
Yeah it is. Because if there's one thing I've learned about space travel it's how similar it is to jumping around on a trampoline and trying to peg your friend in the face with a rubber ball. No -- two men, a ball and a hole -- this is more like that game I play in the truck stop bathroom.
Spaceball: Like Basketball, but More Expensive and Ridiculous [gizmodo]
Reader Comments
1. arab - August 4, 2009 3:54 PM
Arab rules !!
2. naas - August 4, 2009 3:58 PM
looks........stupid
3. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - August 4, 2009 3:59 PM
Looks.......FUN!
4. Timbo - August 4, 2009 4:01 PM
I agree with naas... Maybe just a 3 sided trampoline...ya
5. Billy Rapture - August 4, 2009 4:02 PM
Lol.
This is ridiculous.
First the jedi mind trick thing, now this?
I smell a conspiracy.
Or is it just B.O.?
6. Newbie - August 4, 2009 4:13 PM
FIRST!!!!! (almost)
7. Reverend Faux - August 4, 2009 4:16 PM
If you win this game, you'll receive a pendant of Life and get closer to a chance to enter Olmac's Temple!
8. newbies' friend - August 4, 2009 4:21 PM
SECOND!!! (almost) ... ok as you all can read this is the result of an almost 8 hours work in reading geekologie =)
9. Paul? - August 4, 2009 4:26 PM
wow... how incredibly stupid..
10. SmokingGirl - August 4, 2009 4:37 PM
I like how the kids are photoshopped in there. They couldn't even pay some kids (parents) enough for them to actually be in there...nice.
11. Jean Bennet Ramsey III - August 4, 2009 4:38 PM
Its called HiBall. And Id hit both those kids.
12. freddy K - August 4, 2009 4:44 PM
GW....you play DIRTY games. ewww.
13. Ryan - August 4, 2009 4:57 PM
Thats more confusing to play than it is to figure out why it was created.
14. STOMPY - August 4, 2009 4:58 PM
@naas
oh ya, well your face looks stupid
http://philcarillo.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ugly.jpg
15. STOMPY - August 4, 2009 4:59 PM
@Timbo
oh ya, well your face looks like a three sided trampoline
http://www.magicbounce.com/image.php?productid=68
16. STOMPY - August 4, 2009 5:00 PM
@SG
oh ya, well your face looks like its photoshopped.
http://blog.tuvinh.com/wp-content/gallery/70-coolest-photoshop-photo-effects/aging.jpg
17. STOMPY - August 4, 2009 5:02 PM
@GFS
oh ya, well your face looks fun...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xwE0rBDpg1Y/SEVPf4Is_cI/AAAAAAAABSw/4mnuBBFUGfc/s400/sweet-face-orangutan.jpg
18. Boost - August 4, 2009 5:02 PM
When I was a kid, my Brothers and I made a really cool game on the trampoline.
As I remember, we had like, 8 different balls on the tramp. Soccer balls/basketballs/etc.. If you got touched by the ball, you were out.
Then somehow the person that was out could throw a ball, and if they hit someone, they could come back on the tramp.
Or something like that... Sure was fun though. Didn't cost no $700 either.
19. Ollie Williams - August 4, 2009 5:16 PM
#7 wins for the Legends of the Hidden Temple reference.
20. Pat - August 4, 2009 5:25 PM
So...it's a trampoline named after a Mel Brooks film?
21. kate - August 4, 2009 5:36 PM
Looks like a muggle version of quidditch.
22. sergeant slaughter - August 4, 2009 7:09 PM
You know, they're on to something here. A better game would be like racquetball except you're only 8 feet away from your opponent and the ball is really more of a rock and you try to sling it at their face as they jump up in front of you on the stupid trampoline. It improves dexterity. For the next time someone hurls a rock at your face.
23. Daisy - August 4, 2009 7:34 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exacty like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was on TV acting like a hick, and it made him really popular. One of the people he screwed over left the mic on while he was talking about how stupid the american public was and all his friend deserted him.
24. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - August 4, 2009 7:46 PM
Daisy, could you please pick a different movie pretty please. Never Back Down is getting old.
25. Billy Rapture - August 4, 2009 8:17 PM
Boost, you made me cry tears of joy.
I remember playing that exact same game with my brothers.
We called it Goat Ball.
Why goat?
Ill tell you why.
My brother dreamed of being the Goatse guy.
It doesnt make sense chronologically, but its true.
Yeah.
26. SmokingGirl - August 4, 2009 8:46 PM
You caught me, Stompy, you caught me.
27. shakeitout - August 4, 2009 10:14 PM
i went to a community pool (10 years ago) that had one of those, but it was closed in on top, too.
its actually super super fun.
if you're 12.
28. JJtoob - August 4, 2009 10:52 PM
That looks.... SCARY. If you lose, the outside wall smashes you against the inside one like a sandwich, or like a fly, or like a fly on a sandwich and a fat lady comes and sits on them both. Yeah, like that.
29. lucybelle meatyard - August 4, 2009 11:10 PM
hmm.
kind of like when they played kosho on 'the prisoner'...
but even lamer.
30. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - August 5, 2009 7:14 AM
@17
How'd you find my picture?
31. Jaded Icon - August 5, 2009 8:18 AM
It does look like something a kid would want.......and then after 30 min get tired of it and never play with it again. It's ok, its not like you needed that $700 anyway.
32. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - August 5, 2009 11:07 AM
there's technically 2 holes - which makes this a game form of fingercuff.
33. GeekoFan - August 6, 2009 3:46 AM
Must See!!
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