Back in 1992 Microsoft came out with a new game called JezzBall.  Essentially, it was their take on the Xonix style genre.  In JezzBall, you were faced with an enclosed room, with balls  (often referred to as atoms) bouncing within it.  Your job is to confine these balls to increasingly smaller spaces until a predefined amount of the board has been blocked off.  This was a relatively interesting game, which Microsoft stopped supporting over a decade ago (in 1996).  Despite this lack of support, however, the game has maintained a fairly loyal and consistent following.  Numerous online JezzBall games and related clones can be found across the web. 

Well, here we are, more than a decade after the original JezBall was supposed to have died.  I think it is about time this game come back down out of the Cloud.  And our friends at Birdsoft (aka Crazy Bird in the iTunes store) agreed.  Of course, in the time since we last saw an official release of JezzBall, the world of computers have changed.  Rather than bringing the game back to your desktop, Birdsoft has brought it to your palmtop…specifically, to your iPhone.  Let’s take a closer look at this fully updated and revived variation of this classic game.

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