Using the computer mouse, the player moves a paddle across the bottom of the screen, which is used to launch off a ball into a confined field of bricks, clearing the bricks as the ball bounces into them.

Following the release of the anniversary edition on Steam, distribution of the original demo version of DX-Ball 2 via the Longbow Games website was discontinued, alongside sales of the game's original board pack expansions.īased on the concept of Atari's arcade instalment Breakout, the gameplay of DX-Ball 2 follows the generic formula of the brick buster genre. The anniversary edition introduced high-definition graphics, widescreen gameplay with a selection of new widescreen board-sets, additional power-ups, online leaderboards, and a board-set editor for creating custom board-sets. On November 21, 2018, the game was re-released on Steam as DX-Ball 2: 20th Anniversary Edition, commemorating the game's 20th anniversary, while also ensuring compatibility with more recent versions of Windows. Welch, the sequel introduced a number of improvements to the original game, including high-colour textured graphics, an original soundtrack by Eric 'Sidewinder' Gieseke, multiple board-sets with distinct visual styles, and a hotseat multiplayer mode. As a follow-up to the 1996 cult-classic DX-Ball by Michael P. DX-Ball 2 is a 1998 brick buster game for Microsoft Windows, developed and published by Longbow Games.

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