NCAA Basketball (video game)

NCAA Basketball
North American cover art
DeveloperSculptured Software
PublishersJP: HAL Laboratory
NA/EU: Nintendo
DirectorsAdam Flick
Tim Rooney
DesignerHal Rushton
ProgrammerAdam Clayton
ComposersH. Kingsley Thurber
Paul Webb
Mark Ganus
PlatformSuper NES
Release
GenreTraditional basketball simulation
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

NCAA Basketball,[a] known in Europe as World League Basketball,[3] is a basketball video game developed by Sculptured Software for the Super NES.

It was the first basketball game for a console to use a 3D perspective. The game uses the Super Nintendo's Mode 7 to create a 3D player's-eye view that became the standard for later basketball video games. Sculptured Software's NHL Stanley Cup featured a similar effect.

According to the short-lived American magazine Flux, this video game was ranked the 75th-best video game of all time.[4]

Gameplay

In the game, the player chooses a basketball team and then plays against either a computer or a human opponent on a court. The goal is to score the most baskets within the given time through dribbling and passing. Players can also save the game and change options and difficulty settings.

The game allows the player to play either an exhibition game or a full season.

The North American version of the game contains college teams from five major NCAA Division I-A conferences (ACC, Big East, Big 8, SEC, and SWC) but with fictional players, while the European version features fictional professional teams located throughout the world, and the Japanese release features its own fictionalized likenesses of NBA teams.

Reception

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "while most video basketball games play like most other video basketball games, this Nintendo effort sets itself apart with a unique, rotating 3-D perspective."[5] Nintendo Power ranked NCAA Basketball the ninth-best SNES game of 1992.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Known in Japan as Super Dunk Shot ([2]).

References

  1. ↑ Weekly Famitsu, issue 1509, page 19 (news Archived 2020-11-01 at the Wayback Machine)
  2. ↑ スーパーダンクショット
  3. ↑ "NCAA Basketball". Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Top 100 Video Games". Flux. No. 4. Harris Publications. April 1995. p. 31.
  5. ↑ "Holiday video game guide: 1992". Entertainment Weekly. December 4, 1992. Archived from the original on September 7, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Top 10 of 1992". Nintendo Power. Vol. 44. January 1993. p. 120. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
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