Super Dodgeball
Similar to a volleyball game, the court is divided into halves: your team occupies on half, and your opponent the other. Each team has six members: three players on the court, and the other three who stay around the perimeter of the court, waiting to catch any balls that fly outside it. Once you have the ball, you must try to swing it as hard as you can at the opposing team, usually by running, jumping, and pressing the B button repeatedly to slam it down on the hapless opponents. On the other hand, if the other team has the ball, you have to either avoid it or catch it with the A button. Much like a typical 2D action game, each character has a life bar, and you'll be out of the game (only for that particular game) if it runs out. Once you manage to knock out all the players on your opponents team, youll win the match.
If you have played River City Ransom or any other Kunio-kun games on the NES before, you know what the graphics looks like: short, stumpy, SD style players. The graphics and animations, like other Technos games, are both top-notch. The real fun comes when you execute the "super moves" that are unique to each character. Usually accomplished with rapid button bashing, this causes the ball to do a number of physically impossible feats, such as splitting into three smaller balls, curving backwards in midair, or hit the poor guy so hard he flies outside the court. This makes the game a lot of fun, especially against another human player in 2-player mode.
Despite the extremely simple gameplay, youll have a lot of fun discovering each players super moves, and spiking the hell out of the other team ;) If you enjoy wacky sports, love River City Ransom, or are a fan of addictive 2-player games, you cant go wrong with this underdog that wasnt very popular outside Japan (perhaps due to peoples unfamiliarity with the dodgeball game). Two thumbs up, way up!
Average Rating: | 8.72 [74 votes] |
Genre: | Sport |
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Developer: | Technos Japan |
Publisher: | Technos Japan |
Year: | 1989 |
Software Copyright: | Technos Japan |
Theme: | Anime |
Multiplayer: | Simultaneous hotseat |
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More Info: | Mobygames | The Web |
System Requirements: | Nintendo |
If you like this game, try: | Panda Dodgeball, River City Ransom, Volleyball Simulator |
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