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Christopher Michael Baker of AllGame rated the game two out of five and said that it showed the developer's inexperience at creating volleyball games.
He said that Nintendo had made games for all other sports and likely was obliged to make a volleyball game.
He criticized the "annoying" sound effects.
Thomas of IGN called the game Nintendo's worst sports game, worse than even NES Soccer; he harshly criticized the annoying controls.
Announcements in game magazines also gave a planned release for a ROM cartridge version, but it was cancelled.
Game magazinesIn the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine, it scored 17.14 out of 25, as shown below.
Volleyball is a remake of Attack Four, a volleyball game developed and published by Pax Softnica for MSX in 1984 only in Japan.
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