MoHo

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Ball Breakers
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Developer(s) Lost Toys
Publisher(s) Take-Two Interactive
Platform(s) PlayStation, Dreamcast, Microsoft Windows
ReleasePlayStation
Windows
  • EU: November 3, 2000
Dreamcast
  • EU: November 24, 2000
Genre(s) Action video game
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

MoHo (known as Ball Breakers in North America) is a video game developed by Lost Toys and published by Take-Two Interactive for PlayStation, Dreamcast, and Microsoft Windows in 2000.

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Reception

The PlayStation version received average reviews, while the PC version received unfavorable reviews, according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. [3] [4] Chris Charla of NextGen called the former version " The Running Man meets Marble Madness : surprisingly fun, especially for less than the cost of two boxes of Cheerios." [14]

Greg Howson of The Guardian commended the gameplay of the PlayStation version, which he described as "mixing Marble Madness, skateboarding and future sport" and "remarkable graphical effects on a machine already drawing its pension." [17] Steve Key of Official Dreamcast Magazine UK described the Dreamcast version's character movement as like "slow, awkward muppets rolling about like a drunken version of It's a Knockout ...but with absolutely no fun at all" and stated that it was "probably the most boring game on Dreamcast." [18]

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