The ‘DX’ in ‘DX-Ball’ is a reference to DirectX—a set of application programming interfaces from Microsoft to handle multimedia related operations. The original DX-Ball is a 100% DirectX game, meaning it only relies on DirectX components to run.
Remember your first time playing DX-Ball 2?
Highlights from the board-set Coveting the Grail by Wendy McNally, as featured in Board Pack 2!
Dust Raiders by Sidewinder, as heard on the title screen for DX-Ball 2 (1998).
Unused visual from DX-Ball 2: The Soundtrack Remastered. Image derived from board 8 in the board-set Expedition: Cornfed by Wendy McNally, as featured in Board Pack 1!
Ambiguously, some of the abstract backgrounds in DX-Ball 2 have a striking resemblance to faces. Can you make out the image of a tiled alien head in these two backgrounds?
Let’s try something completely different!
Highlights from the board-set Camouflage and Disguise by Wendy McNally, as featured in the DX-Ball 2 Memorial Pack!
If the ball ever gets stuck in a loop between unbreakable bricks, the game will detect the situation after a short while and zap all persistent bricks on the board. This event can also be triggered by firing repeatedly at unbreakable bricks with the laser guns.
