Beach volleyball until the ball is grounded on the playing court, goes "out", or is not returned properly. The team winning a rally scores a point and serves to start the following rally. The four players serve in the same sequence throughout the match, changing server each time a rally is won by the receiving team. Beach volleyball most likely originated in 1915 on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii, while the modern two-player game originated in Santa Monica, California. It has been an Olympic sport since the 1996 Summer Olympics. The Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) is the international governing body for the
Summer Heat Beach Volleyball were experiencing a period of renewed popularity for the first time in many years, although it received considerably less hype and critical praise than its contemporaries "Beach Spikers", "Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball", and "Outlaw Volleyball". It currently has a score of 68.09% on GameRankings and 65 out of 100 on Metacritic. The game was one of several poor-selling titles that would lead to Acclaim's bankruptcy in 2004. In 2006, Canadian game publisher Throwback Entertainment acquired the property rights for "Summer Heat Beach Volleyball" from Acclaim. Throwback had planned on developing another "Summer Heat" volleyball game for release on