Virtual Volleyball

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Virtual Volleyball
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Developer(s) SIMS Co., Ltd.
Publisher(s) Imagineer Co., Ltd.
Director(s) Ichiro Honma
Producer(s) Takayuki Kamikura
Programmer(s) Takeshi Kataoka
Yoshiki Sawamura
Artist(s) Atushi Yamamoto
Kengo Arai
Masahiro Kanno
Composer(s) Keisuke Nishino
Platform(s) Sega Saturn
Release
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer (up to eight players via two Saturn 6 Player Adaptors)

Virtual Volleyball [lower-alpha 1] is a video game developed and published by Imagineer Co. for the Sega Saturn.

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Gameplay

Virtual Volleyball is the first volleyball game using polygons to be published for any game system. [2]

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the Saturn version of the game, rating it one star out of five, and stated, "There are inherent problems in doing a volleyball game when considering the matter of trying to control an entire team, but Virtual Volleyball seems to make no effort to solve any of these problems, leaving the gamer with an extremely vacant feeling." [2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Japanese: バーチャル バレーボール, Hepburn: Bācharu Barēbōru

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References

  1. ↑ "SEGA SATURN Soft > 1994-1995". GAME Data Room. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
  2. 1 2 3 Next Generation staff (November 1995). "Finals: Virtual Volleyball". Next Generation . No. 11. Imagine Media. p. 174. ISSN   1078-9693.
  3. ↑ Famitsu staff (July 28, 1995). "New Games Cross Review 新作ゲームクロスレビュー". Weekly Famicom Tsūshin (in Japanese). No. 344. ASCII Corporation. p. 31. OCLC   852442485. Archived from the original on August 16, 2022. Retrieved August 16, 2022.
  4. ↑ Hearn, Marcus and Swan, Gus (October 1995). "Saturn Review: Virtual Volleyball". Mean Machines Sega . No. 36. EMAP. pp. 82–3. ISSN   0967-9014.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ Sega Power staff (November 1995). "Virtual Volleyball". Sega Power . No. 72. Future plc. p. 53. ISSN   0961-2718.
  6. ↑ Hardy, Steve (October 1995). "Saturn Review: Beach ball bouncing in... Virtual Volleyball". Sega Pro . No. 50. Paragon Publishing. p. 64. ISSN   0964-2641.
  7. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine staff (August 1995). "Virtual Volleyball". Sega Saturn Magazine . No. 8. SoftBank Group. p. 143.
  8. ↑ "Virtual Volleyball". Ultimate Future Games . No. 11. Future plc. pp. 94–5. ISSN   1355-7289.
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