Greaseball

Greaseball
First Appearance	Golf
First Demo Appearance	January 2019 Patreon Demo

Greaseball, also known as Nerd, is an enemy in Pizza Tower.

Description

Greaseball looks like a cheeseball creature that wears glasses and has pepperonis on his head.

He is the seemingly destitute owner of the restaurant featured in Golf. Due to his financial status, he cannot afford proper golf balls, instead opting to use himself.

Behaviour

Greaseball sits in place. The player can hit him either by dashing into him, Mach Running, Uppercutting, Bellysliding, Bodyslamming, Super Jumping, or by grabbing him and using a golf club to control his trajectory more precisely. When you hit him for the first time, two new elements are added to the HUD: A counter for how many times he's been hit, and a counter for the course's Primo Burg'. Any direct interaction from the player to Greaseball will add one hit to the bottom left counter. After getting launched, he will bounce and roll across the ground based on how far he was launched, defeating enemies along the way and interacting with certain objects, and after coming to a stop he will start to cheerfully skip around. He will only get defeated once he reaches a basketball net, which breaks any Golf Blocks in the room.

Greaseball is actively sucked up by Sir Noses upon coming near them. Greaseball can also collect items, such as pizza points, for the player.

Hitting or getting ready to swing Greaseball resets the combo timer. The combo timer does not drain while the player is getting ready to swing Greaseball.

In every course, there is a par, either 5, 10 or 15 (The golfing section in The Crumbling Tower of Pizza has a par of 4), of netting Greaseball. Getting Greaseball into the net with that amount of hits or lower earns a "Primo Burg'!!" status for 400 Pizza Points. Getting a few hits (exact number varies) over the par yields the "Hot Dog!" status for 250 points. A few more hits over the par will yield the "Nice Nachos!" status" for 100 points. After that, player is awarded with "Nothing", for no points.

Appears in

• Golf
• The Crumbling Tower of Pizza

Trivia

• "Greaseball" (sometimes also shortened to "greaser") is a a derogatory term for southern Europeans and Hispanic Latinos, fitting for Peppino being Italian.
• Greaseball appears in Strongcold as a decoration. He's green instead of yellow, and is hanging from a rope like a christmas tree ornament. Since he is a decoration, he cannot be hit.
• In the GOLF demo, he acts similar to a Cheeseslime, meaning he does nothing except walk around. However, unlike Cheeseslimes, it can't be defeated unless touching the goal or coming into contact with an outlet. If he comes into contact with an outlet, he will respawn at his stand. The player has to get him to a goal in order to destroy his block to proceed. After GOLF, he appears in some demos acting the same, except he rewards the player with complete pizzas instead of destroying his block.
• The "Nothing" rank is the only golf rank to not be animated.
• A beach ball that resembles Greaseball appears as a decoration in Crust Cove.
• Greaseball's old filename is Pizzaball.
• If playing as The Noise, he will overwrite the par number with a pencil, so that he will always get the Primo Burg' regardless of how many shots he has taken. It also makes it guaranteed to get the Primo Golfer Achievement when playing as him.
• Before the GOLF demo, Greaseball was treated more like a basketball rather than a golf ball.

Gallery

Regular animations

Greaseball's idle animation.

Greaseball walking.

Greaseball rolling.

Greasball hitting a wall.

Greaseball hitting the ground.

Greaseball's stun animation.

Greaseball's offscreen icon.

Greaseball's hit amount HUD sprite.

Primo Burg requirement HUD sprite.

The Noise editing the number required to get a Primo Burg.

"Primo Burg'!!" rank.

"Hot Dog!" rank.

"Nice Nachos!" rank.

"Nothing" rank.

The image the HUD displays when Peppino is putting Greaseball, depicting Peppino in a lavish, brown vest with a golf club in his hand.

The image the HUD displays when The Noise is putting Greaseball, depicting him shirtless and in red boxing attire, with Greaseball appearing less enthused than usual.

Scrapped animations

Greaseball's old walking animation.

Greaseball's stunned animation.

Greaseball's idle sprite.

Greaseball's animation as a Strongcold decoration.

Miscellaneous

Greaseball in concept art for a potential game idea. He is seen wearing a headset with an eyepiece of some sort, possibly in reference to the one AVGN reviewed.