(Played on NSO on Switch) I played Atari 2600 Real Sports Volleyball a little bit ago and it took me like 5 minutes to feel like I was done with it and could move on. So when I switched to playing this game, the jump is enormous. Simply having music and 6 players on each team feels enormous, not to mention the graphical jump. Obviously, this is just a black box NES sports title, and not a very well regarded one at that. But from my perspective, this is a night and day improvement over what I was playing. The game is actually pretty deep to give it some credit. I got beat into the ground by Tunisia when i first played the game. The next day at work, I was looking through the manual online to try to understand the mechanics. Its got a lot going on for such a simple game, with different types of spikes, blocking, 4 different types of serves, etc. I didn't really get to play this game in multiplayer yet, but my main goal going into this was to beat Japan, as they are basically the middle ranked team. I eventually overcame Tunisia and moved onto Japan. I spent a while just kinda passing possessions back and forth between them, but ultimately ended up giving up because I feel like I still don't have as good as grips as I need to beat them over things like blocking and low set ups. I was pretty satisfied with myself being able to basically wipe the floor with Tunisia for now, maybe my skills will improve one day. I spent a little over 3 hours with this game which is more than I thought I’d get out of it. Another big thing to note is I LOVE the illustrations in the games manual for the volleyball players. Its such a unique 80s drawing style, and I’m very curious who at Nintendo made them. Overall not a bad time for my first REAL time playing a Black Box Nintendo developed sports game.

Another Sports game to the list. This time it's volleyball. To be honest, I had no fun playing this game.

The controls were kind of instinctive. Yet, it was so hard to execute them. The reason for it is that you really needed to be at the right spot to hit the ball. Because of that, it was a frustrating experience.

The only thing that was charming about this game is the intro song before picking your team. Other than that, the game was pretty plain. A crowd, a ref, two team and a net. That's about it. the only thing that was funny to look at is that the players sprites always move their butt back and forth and when getting smashed in your face, the player was doing the turtle move on their back.

If you like volleyball, maybe you would have a chance to have fun for 15 minutes. Other than that, I would simply avoid this game.

Game #38 of my challenge