Timeball is a puzzle video game released by NEC for the TurboGrafx-16. The object of the game is to guide a ball along pieces of track by moving tiles like a sliding puzzle. The game's name in Japan is Blodia, an anagram of Diablo, the title of a computer game upon which Blodia is based. Versions of Blodia were released exclusively in Japan for the original Game Boy and the Sharp X68000. A spin-off titled Blodia Land: Puzzle Quest was released for the Famicom, replacing the ball with cartoon dinosaur-like characters. These versions were developed by Tonkin House and published by Broderbund.

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Timeball
TurboGrafx-16 cover art
Developer(s)	Now Production
Publisher(s)	TurboGrafx-16 NEC, Hudson Soft X68000, Game Boy Broderbund, Tonkin House
Programmer(s)	Manuel Constantinidis (original game)
Platform(s)	TurboGrafx-16, Game Boy, Sharp X68000
Release	JP:December 1990 NA: September 12th, 1991.
Genre(s)	Puzzle
Mode(s)	Single-player, Two-player (Game Boy)

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The grid on screen is composed of tiles. Some tiles have a piece of road, and a black tile represents "the void", an area where one can drag the tile nearby in order to complete a road which will be taken by a ball that will follow the path. Players must arrange the tiles such that the ball traverses all sections of track. The ball can be sped up by pressing a button. If the ball reaches a tile without a piece of track, it falls out of play.

The game also includes a level editor which allows for the creation of custom puzzles. An earlier "prototype" version without the level editor was published for the TI-99/4a and other computers as "Diablo" in 1985.

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