Beach Volley

• Release Date: 1989
• Genre: Sports
• Style: Volleyball
• Similar Games: Beach Volleyball (IBM PC Compatible), Volleyball Simulator (Commodore 64/128), Volleyball (Arcade), Volleyball (Nintendo Entertainment System), Volleyball! (Odyssey 2), Nekketsu! Beach Volley Kunio Kun (Game Boy), Beach Blanket Volleyball (Commodore 64/128)

Game Description

Tour the world with Beach Volley for the Atari ST. Your team will travel to Tokyo, Moscow, Paris, London, New York, Nassau, Sydney, and Cairo in a whirlwind tournament of two-on-two beach volleyball. You can play the game by yourself or you can challenge a friend. The winner of a match is the first player to score seven points or the player with the highest point total at the end of the time limit.

There are two types of serves in Beach Volley: normal service and smash service. You can use the joystick to control the length and direction of each serve.

While on offense you can smash (spike) the ball if you can time your jump just right. If the opposing player smashes the ball you can jump and try to block the ball.

Points are scored when the ball touches the ground, is hit too many times when on one side of the net, hits the net, or goes out of bounds.

Roots & Influences

The sport of volleyball was invented in 1895 by YMCA physical fitness director William G. Morgan, in Holyoke, Mass. It was designed as an alternative to basketball, which many older men found too strenuous.