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Arcade Volleyball

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The game features teams of one or two players (depending on the platform) shaped like balls with legs who hit the volleyball with their heads. The game is played from a side-view perspective, and the ball can be bounced off of the walls and ceiling without penalty. Scoring is based on the original
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in the July 1987 issue. The game featured two heads per team, controlled by a single player, which moved and jumped together. It was not necessary to win the game by 2 points; when either side reached 15 points, the game would pause and ask if the user wanted to play again.
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volleyball scoring rules, where only the serving team can score on each volley, and 15 points are required to win the game. The same head is permitted to hit the ball multiple times, but the team may only hit the ball three times while the ball is on their side.
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2065,1" to type the number 1 into the memory address that controlled the number of players. The authors referred to this as an optional practice mode or warm up mode and warned that the computer opponent was not very challenging. The game was inspired by
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By default the game was played between two human players, but it was possible to modify the game so that one player could play against the computer by typing "
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and has the same physics and gameplay as the Amiga version, but uses 4-color
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by different programmers and was included in a 12-game collection called
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from scratch. It was included as an executable program, with
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Commercial video games with freely available source code
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