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- Kings of the beach -  
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Beach volley is pretty popular
in some countries but the thing is you have to have good weather to play
it and in many countries the environment simply doesn't allow it. Kings
of the beach is such a game and you can practice shots on the beach as well
as compete in single matches or a tournament. Unlike classic volleyball
you don't have five players on each side but instead you have two players
and it is played in the sand making it harder.
Once you start the game you are shown the bio's of the two characters you
can play (Randy and Sinjin) and you are presented with a map of the area
where you can visit the various different places. Here you can train for
different skills like defending and attacking or you can participate in
competition. You can either play a single match or compete in the tournament.
A game is played until one side has 15 points but to keep it fair you switch
sides after one team has made five points. You can score points by smashing
the ball into the opponents playing area and if they are not able to return
you get a point. You only get points if your side served the ball but if
you didn't control of the ball will be given to you. There are three distinct
actions you can take which is catching the ball with you forearms to keep
it on your side, volleying the ball to prepare for a smash and ofcourse
the smash itself. The options available to you are limited because each
side can only touch the ball a maximum of three times before returning it
to the opponents side. Fail to do that and control of the ball is automatically
given to the other side.
Like many sports games this game gives me mixed feelings because I'm not
really into the sport, it rains here so much that you can't even have a
proper competition anyway. As a game though it translates much better than
classic volleyball because there are less players which gives you a better
overview of the game. The thing I don't like are the graphics because the
developers decided to keep the entire playing field on the screen at a time
which means that the characters are tiny. This was the setup of very early
games but this game could have been better with larger characters and a
scrolling playing field. Still this game focusses on the game instead of
modern beach volley games which simply serve to show off ladies wearing
skimpy outfits.
Overal rating: 6.5/10
Erde Kaiser
Kings of the beach was released for several different systems here are some notes:
| C64 |
Released
in 1989.
Game has been tested but not completed with CCS64 v2.0 win. |
| DOS |
Released
in 1988.
Game has been tested but not completed on a DOS PC.
Doesn't work under my windows system but does work under dosbox. You
can use the cursor keys and the three keys next to the enter (l;')
to perform the different moves. |
| NES |
Released
in 1990.
Game has been tested but not completed with FCE ultra v0.98.12. |
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Date added |
Apr-22-2005 17:23 |
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Name |
Kings of the beach |
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Developer |
Electronic arts
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Publisher |
Electronic arts
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First released |
1988 |
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Genre |
Sport
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Download |
Commodore 64, filesize: 200 Kb
MS-DOS, filesize: 330 Kb
Nintendo Entertainment System, filesize: 47 Kb
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Manual |
Download manual for Kings of the beach
, filesize: 715 Kb
This is the scanned manual for the NES. |
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Solve / Docs |
No solve available
No extra docs available |
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