🎲【Kings of the Beach】〖Squiggy Seven: First Impressions
In your face pink-pants! Eat sand bozo!
Today's Squiggy Seven is called Kings of the Beach, and it brings us to a place I haven't been in ages -- the beach! When I was younger, I kind of liked going... although it always felt kind of like a chore at the same time. The beach is really unique in that way, where it provides an experience you can't get anywhere else but it also drains every bit of energy you have.
For me, it's the combination of traveling to the beach in the first place and, of course, the extreme heat and exhaustion that comes from doing beachy stuff. That's a killer combo for your local Squiggs. Even the hour-ride down and back is a bit much for me, but it's really the "being stuck at the beach for who knows how long" that fills me with a small amount of dread before every visit.
The beach takes a lot out of me, and you can't leave until everyone wants to go. That's the real killer, the killer killer if you will. If you're ready to go home because you're dehydrated and exhausted, well, grab your copy of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and sit in your aunt's minivan for two hours until everyone else is ready to leave. (Based on a true story, haha, that may have been my last family trip to the beach).
Couple that in with some super pale Squiggles skin that only has two modes -- ghost white or burnt lobster red -- and you have a formula I'm not super excited to execute on a common basis. However, at this point it's been a full few years since these toes touched a ton of sand, so I kind of miss it a bit. Maybe I've just been inside too long over the past year, but I could see myself sitting on a beach sometime soon, under an umbrella so I don't cook to medium rare, feeling that salty breeze that came from an ocean away... there's just something about it that no other place offers.
💛 Squiggs
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Kings of the Beach is a beach volleyball computer game released by Electronic Arts in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS. A version for the Nintendo Entertainment System was produced by Konami (under the Ultra Games label) in 1990.
The player can play as Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos. The game features three modes of play: practice, match play and tournament. In the latter, you progress through five beaches (San Diego, Chicago, Waikiki, Rio de Janeiro, and Australia) filled with increasingly challenging opponents as you attempt to win it all. While Smith and Stoklos are joined by Ron Von Hagen, Tim Hovland and Mike Dodd as the only 'real' volleyball players featured in the game, EA spiced up the competition with some notorious characters from other games, including Hard Hat Mack and Lester from Skate or Die and Ski or Die.
The gameplay controls for the console version are fairly simplistic, with the directional pad and two buttons doing all the work. In the PC version, players control three actions, bump, set, block/spike. Diving for the ball occurs automatically. The only 'advanced' moves in the game are the ability to dink or perform a one-handed Kong block (Stoklos's trademark).
Another endearing feature of the game is the ability to 'argue' calls with the referee, which occasionally allows players to get a point overturned. However, if players argue too much, the referee may penalize them with a red card and deduct a point.
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Squiggy Seven: First Impressions is a series where I blind review random NES games in an effort to learn more about the hidden classics on the system. I have gotten into retro collecting for the NES and I am on the hunt for those games I've never played that I'm missing out on.
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You can find the full playlist for Squiggy Seven: First Impressions here: • 【Metal Fighter】 NES Game Blind Reviews | S...
