REMEMBER MADBALLS? THEY’RE BACK! IN GAME FORM.

Winning the Offworld award for Franchise I’d Thought Least Likely To Ever Make A Comeback, Playbrains has announced that cult indie arena-ball-brawler BaboViolent 2 will be given a facelift in 2009 with a new PC and Xbox Live Arcade version, now sporting original characters from short lived 80s fad Madballs (in their first appearance since Ocean’s “we’ll make a game of anything, really” C64 and Spectrum title from 1987).

Truth be told, my interest is actually slightly piqued by the video above, and, as GamerBytes points out, the original BaboViolent worked up enough of a community to spawn its own comprehensive fan-site: this may just be the retro revival we didn’t know we needed.

Madballs in BABO:INVASION [Playbrains, via GamerBytes]