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JezzBall is a [[computer game]] in which red-and-white balls, referred to as '''atoms''', bounce about a rectangular field of play, or '''room'''. The player advances to the next level (with correspondingly higher numbers of atoms and lives) by containing the atoms in progressively smaller spaces, until at least 75% of the area is blocked off. One gains a bonus for eliminating more than 75%, which is calculated from the percentage over 75% that one manages to block off. One must do this while racing against the clock. It is similar to [[Qix]], which was released during the [[Golden Age of Arcade Games]].
JezzBall was programmed by [[Dima Pavlovsky]] and introduced in [[1992]] as part of the [[Microsoft Entertainment Pack]], and also in the later [[Best of Windows Entertainment Pack]]. The game is named Jezzball after [[Jez San]], who was a contemporary of Dima at the time. Despite [[Microsoft]] withdrawing support in [[1996]], it still has a dedicated fan base. While JezzBall is available from many [[abandonware]] sites, there are several [[open source]] and [[shareware]] clones of the game that can be legally obtained. No less than eight such clones exist, covering nearly every major desktop and [[personal data assistant|PDA]] [[operating system]]. [http://mattdm.org/icebreaker/notjezzball.shtml]
==Gameplay==
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