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This game is similar to Blobby Volley, which was quite popular around 2000 here in Germany, I think. The slightly improved Blobby Volley 2 [1] is still actively maintained and can be downloaded for modern platforms.

[1] https://blobbyvolley.de/download.php

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In the UK we played a lot of slime volleyball in the early 2000s:

https://oneslime.net/

Slime volleyball is immediately what I thought of when I tried this. We played a lot of that (and slime soccer!) on the lab computers at school (Canada).

I had no idea Pikachu Volleyball existed, but apparently it predates (1997 [0]) Slime Volleyball (1999 [1]) by a few years. I never realized it was essentially a clone.

[0]: https://github.com/gorisanson/pikachu-volleyball [1]: https://oneslime.net/kb/A_Brief_History_Of_Slime.html

Oh, there were a zillion of these. Ball physics with gravity are easy/fun to make, so something like volleyball or tennis is pretty much everyone's my-first-game-with-physics project. No coincidence they've all got round heads :)

The one I remember playing growing up was some DOS volleyball game where you played as two hideous little purple Q-bert looking dudes. Looks like it even has its own Wiki page! Dates to 1988. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_Volleyball

Ha, also in Canada and also played a lot of Slime Volleyball in school. I remember the graphics were pulled from a folder of jpegs or gifs, so I substituted all the images with pictures of my friends and other goofy things. Good times.

yesss, I used to play this game non stop when I was 10, then I discovered slime soccer and other variants, very fun

Which is similar to DOS - Arcade Volleyball (1987)

Back in the day they used to sell cheap CD-ROMs that claimed to have 1000 games. Most of the games were garbage, but I do remember Arcade Volleyball was one of the few gems.

man, that brought some memories of me buying magazines that had one full game and another cd with 1000s of demos.

that's how i played the first gta game!

Most of those discs are on archive.org these days, if you can remember some clue to search for and find it. Pop it in a Win95 VM and have a nostalgia-fest evening.

That's the game I thought of too! I have memories of teal/cyan CGA.

Oh, these memories:). This game, along with old DOS Arcade Volleyball inspired me to create a clone using GameMaker. I think it was the first game I created when I was in high school:).

I remember playing this with my sister. We were raised in Argentina fwiw.

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