Solomon's Key - fireballs?

[mjwilson]

Inspired by Stuart Campbell's Speccy Arcade conversions list, I'm going through and having a bit of a play on some of these.
I remember liking Solomon's Key back in the day, but how do fireballs work (ie how does the player activate one)? There's no key for it in the "redefine keys" screen.

[Mpk]

Don't you hold down the fire/make-a-block button?

[mjwilson]

That doesn't seem to work, unless I'm being very incompetent.

[StooB]

Press V for fireball.

[mjwilson]

Press V for fireball.

Thanks.

Pretty wild that there are redefinable keys except for this.
(If you define V as one of the other keys then it takes on both roles.)

[equinox]

Solomon's Key is a great game. I am fond of genuine brain-twisting puzzlers with realtime action elements, like this and Chip's Challenge. Anyway I never saw it in the arcade and I don't think I knew that firing was possible. Perhaps why I didn't get too far.

There was another game rather like this, but with a ball. It was called "Rebound" or "Revolution" or something...? I thought it was by Infogrames but I can't find it. (I don't mean "Helter Skelter", or "Turbulence", or any of 1000 other ball-based games! This one was really like Solomon's Key... lol)

[Nienn Heskil]

There was another game rather like this, but with a ball. It was called "Rebound" or "Revolution" or something...? I thought it was by Infogrames but I can't find it. (I don't mean "Helter Skelter", or "Turbulence", or any of 1000 other ball-based games! This one was really like Solomon's Key... lol)

Spherical

[equinox]

Spherical

Correct, thank you. Rainbow Arts, not Infogrames. My brain was thinking "FOREIGNERS" apparently