Arcade Volleyball was originally published as a hexadecimal type-in program for MLX in the June 1988 edition of "COMPUTE!'s Gazette". The article was written by Rhett Anderson and David Hensley, Jr., who had also published a similar game called "Basketball Sam & Ed" in the July 1987 issue. The game featured two heads per team, controlled by a single player, which moved and jumped together. It was not necessary to win the game by 2 points; when either side reached 15 points, the game would pause and ask if the user wanted to play again.