All Star Slammin' D-Ball and Sacred 3

On 03/27/2016 at 10:10 PM by KnightDriver

Broke out my PS2 today and played a little All Star Slammin' D-Ball. This is a PS1 game. It's like volleyball but with no net. Two teams wing a ball at each other until one side eliminates all the players on the other side. There's four players a side in the in-bounds area and then three more players just out of bounds. That's a little more interesting than the way I played it at summer camp one year where the two sides just stood in a line across from one another and threw the ball at each other way too hard. Here's some gameplay footage:

You can play Tournament mode against an AI team. I did this and got my butt kicked. I found it difficult to pull off special throws. You hit the d-pad in certain sequences before throwing kind of like attacks in a fighting game. Every time though I would just do a dash move forward and go over the center line and cause a foul that would turn the ball over to the other team. Well, if I had someone to play against maybe I would've stuck with it longer to get used to the controls. As it is, I moved on to the next game of the day on my Xbox 360, Sacred 3.

I already beat this game last year, but I didn't get all the achievements. So I went after a few, mostly trying to play levels on Deity difficulty (the highest) and leaving the game open to Rando Calrissians. I got the full four players in there at one point but the team fell appart on this one boss whose pattern I took too long to remember before the whole team took off. I switched to another level and got one, and then two, players going and had fun battling it out Diablo style. I got a few more achievements along the way. I'll play more of this tomorrow but not after another PS1 backlog game, Namco Museum Volume One.

Toodle bye!

daftman

03/28/2016 at 10:00 AM

I remember playing Super Dodgeball Advance 15 years ago. Good times! This game sounds fun too.

KnightDriver

03/29/2016 at 12:42 AM

I like the character design in this game and it's sure colorful. Need a second player though.

Cary Woodham

03/28/2016 at 12:52 PM

Super Dodge Ball on the NES is one of my favorite sports video games ever. In fact, it was my number one favorite sports game until Wii Sports came along. I did get that All-Star Slammin' D-Ball game when it came out. The neat thing about the PSOne is that right before it faded away, lots of companies put out cheapy little games for it, and sometimes they could be fairly decent. Unfortunately, the D-Ball game was not one of them. It wasn't near as good as Super Dodge Ball on the NES.

If you want to play a GOOD Super Dodge Ball game, I recommend tracking down the NES version. They also made a Game Boy Advance one called Super Dodge Ball Advance that I liked a lot as well. There is also one on the DS, but I didn't like it as much for some reason. A lot of people like the Super Dodge Ball game on the NEO GEO, but I'm not a fan because you have to input fighting game moves to make the ball do stuff, so I'm not as good at it. On the Xbox 360's indie game section, you can also download a game that plays like Super Dodge Ball called Downtown Smash Dodgeball, but I don't know if it's still there. The thing about all these dodgeball games that I've mentioned is that they were made by Technos or former employees of Technos, so they all play the same and are very good. Technos also made the River City Ransom games and the same characters are also in Super Dodge Ball.

03/29/2016 at 12:38 AM

I'll have to check out that NES dodge-ball game. I don't really have a friend to play same screen games with me anymore though. Maybe tough playing solo.

03/29/2016 at 01:51 PM

They're fun even in single player.

goaztecs

03/28/2016 at 06:44 PM

Hahaha I remember playing this All Star Slammin' D-Ball. It was fun and I believe it was a random find from a thrift store. Good stuff.

03/29/2016 at 12:34 AM

Get some two player action and it would be fun indeed.

PixlBit