Kings of the Beach

aka: Kings of the Beach: Professional Beach Volleyball

Released

March 1989 on DOS

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Moby Score

7.5

#5,939 of 155K

Critics

81% (11)

Players

(54)

Ranking

#30 on NES
#993 on DOS

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32 players

Genre: Action
Sports
Perspective: Diagonal-down
Visual: 2D scrolling
Sport: Volleyball
Setting: North America
Oceania
South America

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Description official description

Kings of the Beach is a two on two beach volleyball game. You must quickly move your team about on the sand performing serves, thumps, and spikes to not only out-perform but also out-smart the opposing team.

There are 15 levels and 20 challengers to beat, on famous beaches like Rio, Hawaii and Sydney, in order to be crowned King of the Beach. Both cooperative and competitive multiplayer (non-networked) are also supported.

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Setting: City - Rio de Janeiro

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Credits (DOS version)

14 People

Design	Michael Abbot Nana Wallace Sinjin Smith Randy Stoklos
Programming	Michael Abbot Nana Wallace
Graphics and Animation	Michael Kosaka Michael Anthony Lubuguin
Music and Sound Effects	Rob Hubbard
Producer	Don Traeger
Technical Assistance	Eric Wels
Product Management	Francine Huss Schneider Don Transeth
Graphics Direction	Nancy L. Fong
Package Design	Renee Sullivan
Photography	David Madison

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Lester from Skate or Die (and from Ski or Die which was released after Kings of the Beach), Hard Hat Mack, and other EA game characters made their cameo as your volleyball opponents in the game

Development

Mike Abbot creator of Hard Hat Mack (and a noted volleyball fan), created this game with his friend Nana Chambers. The two worked with world-renowned volleyball players to help design the gameplay.