Virtual Volleyball
Is a sports video game developed by SIMS and published by Imagineer for the Sega Saturn in Japan in 1995. Imagineer re-released the game on the PlayStation as in 1996.
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• Title — Virtual Volleyball • Developer — SIMS • Publisher — Imagineer • Director — Ichiro Honma • Producer — Takayuki Kamikura • Programmer — Takeshi Kataoka Yoshiki Sawamura • Artist — Atushi Yamamoto Kengo Arai Masahiro Kanno • Composer — Keisuke Nishino • Platforms — Sega Saturn, PlayStation • Released — Sega SaturnJuly 21, 1995PlayStationJune 7, 1996 • Genre — Sports • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer
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Virtual Volleyball is the first volleyball game using polygons to be published for any game system.
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Virtual Volleyball is associated with Japan.
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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."
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- 1.Sega. ソフトウェア セガサターン専用CD-ROM（ライセンシー発売）1994・1995年発売.
- 2.ヴィクトリー・スパイク. Famitsu.
- 3.Famitsu staff. New Games Cross Review 新作ゲームクロスレビュー. Weekly Famicom Tsūshin. ASCII Corporation. 344. 31. July 28, 1995. 852442485.
- 4.Joypad staff. Virtual Volley-Ball. Joypad. Yellow Media. 54. 90. June 1996. 1163-586X.
- 5.EMAP. Saturn Review: Virtual Volleyball. Mean Machines Sega. 36. 82–3. October 1995. 0967-9014.
- 6.Next Generation staff. Finals: Virtual Volleyball. Next Generation. Imagine Media. 11. 174. November 1995. 1078-9693.
- 7.Ação Games staff. Virtual Volleyball. Ação Games. Editora Azul. 105. 28. July 1996.
- 8.Ação Games staff. Virtual Volleyball. Ação Games. Editora Azul. 113. 8. March 1997.
- 9.Gamers staff. Virtual Volleyball. Gamers. 5. 63. 1995.
- 10.Merritt, Nick. Virtual Volleyball. Sega Power. Future plc. 72. 53. November 1995. 0961-2718.
- 11.Hardy, Steve. Saturn Review: Beach ball bouncing in. Virtual Volleyball. Sega Pro. Paragon Publishing. 50. 64. October 1995. 0964-2641.
- 12.Sega Saturn Magazine staff. Virtual Volleyball. Sega Saturn Magazine. SoftBank Group. 8. 143. August 1995.
- 13.Super GamePower staff. Victory Spike. Super GamePower. Editora Nova Cultural. 35. 45. February 1997.
- 14.Future plc. Virtual Volleyball. Ultimate Future Games. 11. 94–5. 1355-7289.
- 15.Herrero, Gonzalo. Versión Final: Virtual Volleyball. Última Generación. MV Editores. 7. 96–7. October 1995. 1135-4135.
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