| Credits | |
| Published: |
1989, Ocean
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| Design: | Marc Djan |
| Coder: | Michel Janicki |
| Graphics: | Michele Bacque, Philippe Dessoly, Pierre-Eric Loriaux |
| Musician: | Jean Baudlot |
| Information | |
| Hardware: | OCS |
| Disks: | 1 |
| Code Language: | ASM 68k |
| License: | Commercial |
| Language: | English |
| Players: | 1 or 2, Simultaneous |
| Orig. Price: | £24.99 |
| Categorization | |
| Genre: | Sports |
| Subgenre: | Volleyball |
| Tags: | horizontal, sideways, sports, volleyball |
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Ocean France did their absolute best to give us the feel of an arcade game. Not only its graphics and sound are as close to a late-1980's Japanese coin-op as they can be, but the gameplay is designed so as to keep the matches quick and immediate. In that spirit, you get matches made out of a single 7-point set, rally point scoring system (point awarded on ball change) long before it became an official rule, no two-point margin and a stringent time limit... Kind of that sense of urgency found in the likes of NBA Jam or Super Sidekicks.
For a more faithful, if less adrenalinic, recreation of the sport itself you should check out Over the Net.
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Could complete this back in the day. Typical stylish Ocean France game.
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Nice game even if timer limit fun.
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Lovely pixel art and palette choices in this one. The game still looks good, even decades after it was first released. I never made it past the first level because I was too impatient to figure out the controls. The positive comments on Lemon Amiga made me want to try again.
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Graphics were great. When I was a kid I really thought these are the cutting edge GFX in the sense that they were simply cool (everything that felt cool was the thing anyways
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Nice simple game, too easy to have a very high longevity but at least the chance of seeing all the various sceneries and cut-in scenes gives some motivation to play it until the end. Nice cartoon-like concept art, although they should have thought about providing different graphics for every opponent team. (7)
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Very entertaining beach volley game. Another good job from Ocean France.
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Chick with naked breast (yep, just one) on the very far left (first stage)!
I like this game, it's simple and actually you can win (which seems almost impossible at the beginning), just read the manual, and try to smash the ball into diffferent directions. It should work, so far I've managed to pass the english stage, but was beaten by a clock! How unfare.
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This game was nice, it had some good graphics and a nice intro. It was also rewarding to go to the next level, though the gameplay was the same every level.
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Best volleyball game (even if it's just beach volley) of the few ones for the Amiga. Looks like an arcade conversion, but it's actually an Amiga original as far as I know and was later ported to the NES.
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Nice graphics but this is an average game. Nice for ages below 16.
6/10
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Never understand the timer...volleyball is one of the few games that don't have timer hahaha...but it's cool and it reminds me of summer and that's enough for me
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Very original, a lot of humor, excellent graphics, excellent music, a game with a strong personnality.
French programmers from Ocean did the job! The second game i saw on Amiga and i never forgot this moment!
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Nice looking but it lacks a lot! First off why is there a timer? Very stupid. Also the first team should be easier than what it is. And there in no teammate option like in Kings of the Beach on the 64! 6/10 Haywire
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There are some games that you bring in your memories for the gameplay, others for the soundtrack. Beach volley's got some of the best 80's summer-rocking licks I've ever heard! I guess that I love 80's and rock n roll just 'cause of the Amiga music influence during my childhood
The game itself gets easy and repetitive soon, as others already said, but graphic is good; then funny scenes and irony make the rest.
Could be better, but it's a little treasure.
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Amazing gameplay, very fun in 1P mode and even more in 2P mode. Great graphics and music! I still play it nowadays, what's more to be said?
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1VsCPU was stupid to finish because there was a trick playing the ball bottom and later upper side. Anyway I loved in-middle scenes
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This was really good and really playable, especially as a 2 player game. But there is one big downside: after a good hour's of practice, you'd get the hang of things and win every match easily. A bit of a shame though...
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I loved this when I played it back in yesteryear, but when I replayed it I wasn't as impressed. The graphics still look pretty decent, and the sound is still OK, but the game play just isn't there.
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This game had everything... Good gfx, nice sound, playability was ok, needed timing and precision, and funny cutscenes.
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Good graphic and good music
but the game is not the best... I love only the introduction sequence
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As others have said, the game itself is pretty repetitive, but it's worth sticking with to see the interlevel screens and cutscenes, which are among the best on the Amiga. One of those rare cases of nice graphics genuinely adding to the experience. 7/10.
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Fun for awhile after a while it's get boring same thing over and over
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Beautiful and entertaining. Easy to beat once you get the hang of it.
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Great game, but I also like OVER THE NET. Those are the only good beach volleyball games, IMO.
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Glad to see I'm not the only pervert to remember the scantily clad ladies in the background! Pretty decent game - good fun. I thought the game play was a bit limited and repetitive to be honest but it was still a bit of a laugh. 6/10.
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Best volley, an Ocean great one. It is still funny, and the graphic are superb even now. It could be implemented on a portatile console or even on a mobile telephone in my opinion. It is just a classic!
10
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I played this very much long long time ago. I still like this and going to beat the computer again...
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Remember this with a smile !
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Quite attractive. Though, the game is very easy to complete after you learn how to play it. The difficulty level does not get gradually higher. A nice game anyway.
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I was pretty good on this one years ago. Now, I can't win a single ball.
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Awesome. This really shows what the Amiga can do compared to C64. Super.
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One of the best volleyball games around on the Amiga yet way back in late 80's, it still packed a powerful punch on this genre
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Beach Volley is an awesome game from Ocean Software, when I first had this game on Amiga. I don't have the version of C64, but lucky for me I have it on Amiga. The graphics are great especially with the one's where they show funny clips for example where they went to New York, one of them two go into the mouth of Statue of Liberty which is funny and some other clips when they travel they show some other funny clips which all of them is quite funny for me, and the music on this game is fantastic I absolutely love all the tunes. Easy game to play, but it gets a bit difficult to win at the end of the last two stages in Moscow and Paris, but I did so hard to win the tournament which I finally did for the first time which was about 7 or 8 years ago. Fantastic game!!! I'm giving a perfect 10!!! I should say well done to all Credits.
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I spent my youth too staring at the babes in the background... Nice to see I'm not the only one. The controls were not so tight, and there were too few moves in the game itself, but the "french touches" (topless women, silly music, cartoon graphics) made this game a bit special. OK, I'm off to play Beach Volley again...
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Yes, with two players ultimatly entertaining. Played it first on Atari ST and it was one of the reasons for me to buy an Amiga! Music is quite cheesy, but I still like it very much somehow...
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This was fun and nice - until you mastered it, that is. There's only so much you can enjoy completely trashing your opponents. After a while it becomes a chore. Extra points for bare-breasted babes in the background
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Plays very much like V-Ball! From the arcades. Good graphics and a very fun game despite its simplicity.
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I bought an extra Kick 1.3 board for my Amiga 500+ back in the days, mainly because of this game ... It wouldn't run on Kick 2.0 ...
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Awfully entertaining, very easy to get into and impossible to leave, especially with a friend around. A real gem, I think there's no beach volley game better than this around, even today - no, DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball isn't a real beach volley game, come on!
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On those days we were nerdish teens and we were very happy that the girl on the first screenshot showed up topless.
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This is one of the view games I actually have played on this Amiga machine.
I liked it very much back than...easy gameplay and very fun to do with 2 players.
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