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Volleyball was Nintendo's attempt to emulate the sport of the same name on the NES. You can select to play on the men's or women's squad of eight different countries, including volleyball powerhouses CUB, URS, and TUN. Like real volleyball, the tricky part is getting the set-spike timing down so you can crush the ball down onto the opponent's side for a point. This is kind of hard to do, especially since you are in control of a seemingly random number of players your team. Sometimes, you'll move three players. Sometimes, just one. It's not that hard to get someone over to the ball (it casts a shadow), but it's impossible to direct the ball to the point where you want it to go.

Long story short, Volleyball is terrible. No, not the sport (I like playing it, actually), but the NES video game that costs 500 Wii Points. It's very boring to play, the music will get on your nerves, and the players look like they are humping air when standing around. (It looks even worse if two players are standing next to each other.) The only redeeming quality about this game is that it reminded me of Beach Spikers, a wonderful GameCube volleyball game from Sega. If you look around, you might be able to find it for not much more than the VC equivalent. I'd recommend that game without batting an eyelash. But NES Volleyball? Nope.