111. Sanrio Cup: Pon Pon Volley (?, Famicom, 1992)

Sanrio Cup is a sports game that stars Sanrio characters like Hello Kitty and Keroppi. Unfortunately, the game was released one year before Badtz-Maru debuted as a character, so he is nowhere to be found. This is one of a handful of Famicom games where I have not been able to find any information on who the developer was, as that was not as common to list publicly at the time. The game is basically tennis rules (2 sided court, the ball can bounce once), but played with a volleyball that the characters hit with their hands. The game can be played in singles, doubles or a four-square like free-for-all mode called "tetras".

The controls are basic but used to incorporate a huge variety of context sensitive moves: A is used jump and B is used to hit the ball, but the speed and type of hit will depend on the ball's exact location to you and what you were doing before you hit the ball. There are a total of ten different context sensitive shot types (some of which I never even encountered) baked into the game's logic, and it makes each match feel interesting and tense.

Sanrio Cup is pretty generous with the ball's hitbox too, so it's not as much a challenge retuning a shot as retuning it cleverly. You can bend you shot to move towards the top or bottom of the screen to fake out your opponent, so the game ends up feeling like a kind of proto-Windjammers, though it doesn't quite have the great snappy feel that makes Windjammers a classic.

4/5, better than almost any sports game I've played on the Famicom, I just wish I had someone to play against.