Thanks Yap.
I played in and won a "state" tournament for Cyberball back in the day. I was the best player in my state.
A friend of mine owned an arcade and we used to have tournamnets every weekend until like 3 or 4 in the morning. So when the state tournament at "Castles and Costers" came along I was more than prepared for anyone.
I have had a few chances to buy a full Cyberball over the years. If a chance comes up again where I can get it locally, I will not pass it up.
And yes there was 2 versions. I liked the second version better as well. There was one arcade in town that had modified team names too. In the game originally there was a team called the "Tokyo Flash" and the name was change on this one unit to the "Phoenix Flash". There may have been some other name changes, but I cant recall them.
My teams were:
San Francisco Hitmen, from the first version.
and
The California Crush from the second game.