OK. Well. Right. Fine. What can I say? I do remember Volley ball! I do! I really do. I don't remember bronzed Greek-style gods in bikinis bouncing around a sun drench beach - I do remember Katie Holmes' big fat elbows cracking into my stomach and I just about remember a rather hard plastic ball smashing into my temporal lobes. And the speech impediment that it brought about. I also remember wishing I was taller. I also remember swearing a sacred vow never to play this useless game again.
So - the good news is that ESPN Volley Ball on the 3DO is not a game - it is a training video.
Some French people just look French don't they? And I'm not just talking about Pierre. The man in his black Beret and his black and white stripped jumper, resplendid with a string of onions and a poodle. No. Well yes. But no. What I'm saying is that in a room full of French people some of them will just look like people - while others will look like French people. Am I digging a hole for myself aren't I? - I don't think so. OK maybe I am. Some Japanese people look typical Japanese. While other look like generic east Asians. And so on.
The point? There was one? Oh yes. The people in ESPN Volley ball couldn't look anymore American without tattooing '#1' to their foreheads, wearing a 10 gallon hat and cowboy boots, all the while driving a Chevy with a big eagle on the bonnet (or 'hood' I guess) and perhaps waving a Magnum - the gun not the ice-cream.
If the American people who view this blog wonder what the rest of the world imagines you look like - then look no further than the images of the athletes from 3DO ESPN Volley ball below. Yep - that is what we expecting. Please do not disappoint. Especially if you are the type of moron who stands between the camera and some woman in bikini...
Get. Out. Of. The. Way. - A time machine. A time machine. My blog for a time machine!
Rare - USA only 3DO release.
3DO Kid.
Of cause you are wondering what an a-typical Brit looks like? If you guessed - Crooked teeth. Pale bluish-grey skin. Bowler hat. A picture of her Majesty the Queen in our wallet and a couple of Corgi's yapping round our feet. Preferably while sitting in a winged back chair, sipping earl grey and smoking a pipe? All the while reading the incomprehensible cricket scores from the back of the Daily Telegraph? - You would be bang on the money. "That's us. 'cor blimey gov'ner - you got mi bang ti rights". And so on - of cause.
Yes You have the right view of Americans. I drive a Buick and a Pontiac but i have bad teeth much like you brits. Possibly due to my deep Scots-irish background. my teeth are straight but rotted from our american Soda Pop.What do you call it there anyway? I always wondered. Back to the game.. I must say that this is another game tha makes me feel funny when i look at it but i can't quite figure it out... on a side note did anyone else noticed that there are several women in that game that look a little "mannish"??