JOTD is full steam ahead with another Amiga development, as I’ve just found out via the Amiga community, that after finishing his Arcade to Amiga conversion of a 1981 game called ‘Lock n Chase’ by Data East, he’s now working on bringing Technōs Japan volley ball game called ”U.S. Championship V’Ball’ over to the Amiga. A 1988 beach volleyball sports game that was released for the arcades by Technōs Japan Corporation and later ports to the NES and X68000. To coincide with this news, provided below is the latest gameplay footage from the developer.
Alpha Footage
If you’ve never played the game before, here’s what the wikipedia page says about US Championship V’ball. “The player takes control of a pair of self-described beach bums named George and Michael who make their living playing beach volleyball against locals. One day, they find a flyer for a nationwide beach volleyball tournament offering the winning team a $2,500,000 cash prize. In single-player mode, one person controls both characters on a team. In two-player mode, the players either cooperate by playing on the same team or compete against each other by controlling opposing teams”.
Dev Notes : US Champ V’ball uses 128 colors! Maybe reducing to 64 is possible but that would be a shame, let’s see if it runs properly on real HW first. 32 could work for ECS, a bit washed up but it could work.
As soon as I have more info, I’ll let you all know 🙂
