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Volleyball
North American cover art
Developer(s)	Nintendo Research & Development 1 Pax Softnica
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Composer(s)	Koji Kondo
Platform(s)	Famicom Disk System, Nintendo Entertainment System, Arcade (PlayChoice-10)
Release	Famicom Disk System JP: July 21, 1986 Famicom/NES NA: March 1987 EU: November 15, 1987
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Volleyball (Japanese: バレーボール) is a volleyball video game developed by Nintendo and Pax Softnica and released for the Family Computer Disk System and Nintendo Entertainment System. Originally released in 1986, it was re-released for the Wii Virtual Console in Europe on August 10, 2007, and in North America on August 21, 2007. It is part of the NES Sports Series.

Gameplay

Volleyball is a sports video game that follows the rules of volleyball. The player controls a team of six players, three at the net and three in back. The player serves the ball into play by pressing the same button twice.

The game is a six player-a-side volleyball simulation. Players can select teams to compete in either a men's or women's competition from the following countries: United States, Japan, China, Korea, Brazil, Soviet Union, Cuba and Tunisia.

Development

Volleyball is based on an arcade game. Volleyball was developed by Pax Soft Nica and Nintendo R&D1 and published by Nintendo. It was released in March 1987.

Reception

Christopher Michael Baker of AllGame rated the game two out of five and said that it showed the developer's inexperience at creating volleyball games. He could not figure out which character he controlled at any given point nor the ball's location as poorly anticipated by its shadow. Baker also criticized the game's "annoying" sound effects. He said that Nintendo had made games for all other sports and likely felt obliged to make a volleyball game. He ultimately recommended Kings of the Beach and Super Spike V'Ball instead.

Lucas M. Thomas of IGN said that Volleyball could be Nintendo's worst sports game, worse than even NES Soccer. He said the controls were automatically frustrating.

References

1. ^ "Volleyball - Review - allgame". 12 December 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-12-12.
2. ^ Thomas, Lucas M. (15 November 2007). "Volleyball Review".

External links

• Volleyball at MobyGames

• 1986 video games
• Nintendo Entertainment System games
• Nintendo Research & Development 1 games
• Pax Softnica games
• PlayChoice-10 games
• Video games developed in Japan
• Video games scored by Koji Kondo
• Virtual Console games
• Virtual Console games for Wii U
• Volleyball video games
• Multiplayer and single-player video games
• Nintendo arcade games
• Nintendo games
• Nintendo Switch Online NES games