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1989 · Ocean Software · Sports

Beach Volley

Beach Volley is a simplified computer game version of volleyball from the French developer team Ocean France for various 16-Bit and 8-Bit personal computers, released by Ocean Software Ltd in 1989.

Released
1989
Platforms
AmigaAmstrad CPCAtari STAtari ST/STECommodore 64Commodore C64/128/MAXZX Spectrum
Genres
Sports
Developers
Ocean Software
Publishers
Ocean Software
Perspective
Side view
Country
France

About

Beach Volley is a beach volleyball video game developed by Ocean France for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum, released by Ocean Software in 1989. A stranger interrupts a beach volleyball game and offering the player to join the "Ocean Beach Volley" worldwide tournament, to play against the best from eight other countries. The winner of this competition will receive $250,000.

Beach Volley is the first Ocean France product and one of the first Ocean games to be aimed for the Amiga and Atari ST.

›Story

The sun's beating down, Rock' n Roll music's playing, it's time for Beach Volley - let's take the world!

Your team travels the globe from London to Sydney challenging all corners in the lates craze that's sweeping the beaches.

Keywords

  • volleyball
  • beach volleyball
  • time limit
  • tournament

Media

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Gameplay

Follows the base ruleset of beach volleyball. Two teams of two players each trying to score by making the ball land inside the opponents half of the court. First team reaching seven points within six minutes wins and head to another of the eight countries. At five minutes of play, the music changes to a different tune to indicate the player to hurry up.

If the player reach the six minutes limit, the player lose the game, even if the player are ahead in points. One or two player at once can play the game, but tournament mode is only available for single player. In single player mode the player will be joined by an AI controlled player. To help the human player a flickering blue cursor on the ground will indicate where the ball will be landing.

Reception

Reviews from 1989

"This is one of the most addictive games I've played in a long time."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Amstrad CPC31 December 1989Worldwide
Atari ST/STE31 December 1989Worldwide
ZX Spectrum31 December 1989Worldwide
Amiga31 December 1989Worldwide
Commodore C64/128/MAX31 December 1989Worldwide

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