[fraencko]

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

[n4r9]

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

https://oneslime.net/

[gothink]

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

[coldpie]

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

[standeven]

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.

[tsukurimashou]

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

[fmbb]

Which is similar to DOS - Arcade Volleyball (1987)

[patwolf]

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.

[fernandotakai]

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!

[coldpie]

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.

[treve]

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

[boo-ga-ga]

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:).

[alejoar]

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