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A sports game from the end of 1995 by the Korean studio Open Corp. It came out in South Korea only, for the Samsung Gam*Boy — the locally licensed version of the Sega Master System. The title translates roughly as “Run, Dodgeball King!”.

The game is dodgeball between eight fictional school teams. In the single-player mode against the computer, a winning run takes you through seven matches, one against each rival side. The text mixes Korean and English, but not reading Korean barely affects play.

Dodgeball was a schoolyard staple in Korea at the time, and the name clearly rides the popularity of the dodgeball cartoon then running on Korean television. For the West this was an invisible release: by 1995 Sega's 8-bit machine had long since left the shelves there. On OldGame.cz it runs right in your browser.