I agree, but I'm not sure I would have said that without first getting clobbered by the AI. The list of really hard things for a human seems to be growing these days.

Yeah, judging the angles and getting the ball to bounce in the right direction is really hard. But I'm gonna see if my kids can play this. I'm guessing they probably can.

I like these old-school games.

i'm finding a real problem with delay on jumping/direction which seems to be part of the problem? As though I'm expecting movement to behave slightly differently. could just be making excuses for myself though!

I should have done a better job for the ball dynamics

Perhaps the easy version is more suitable for the kids

http://otoro.net/slimevolley/easy.html

Thanks for the feedback it is very helpful.