NCAA Basketball
NCAA Basketball, known in Europe as World League Basketball, 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.
Also recorded as World League Basketball · Super Dunk Shot
NCAA Basketball
- Date
- 1992
- Publisher
- NCAA Basketball was published by Nintendo.
- Genre
- basketball video game
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NCAA Basketball, known in Europe as World League Basketball, 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.
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According to the short-lived American magazine Flux, this video game was ranked the 75th-best video game of all time.
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• Title — NCAA Basketball • Developer — Sculptured Software • Publisher — JP: HAL Laboratory NA/EU: Nintendo • Designer — Hal Rushton • Programmer — Adam Clayton • Composer — H. Kingsley Thurber Paul Webb Mark Ganus • Platforms — Super NES • Released — June 26, 1992 • Genre — Traditional basketball simulation • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Director — Adam Flick Tim Rooney
Gameplay
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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.
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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." Nintendo Power ranked NCAA Basketball the ninth-best SNES game of 1992.
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- 1.Weekly Famitsu, issue 1509, page 19 (news )
- 2.NCAA Basketball.
- 3.Harris Publications. Top 100 Video Games. Flux. 4. 31. April 1995.
- 4.World League Basketball. Consoles +. 30. 100, 104.
- 5.World League Basketball. Computer and Video Games. 138. 97. May 1993.
- 6.World League Basketball. Player One. 32. 54–57.
- 7.World League Basketball. Super Play Gold. 87. 1993.
- 8.Holiday video game guide: 1992. Entertainment Weekly. December 4, 1992.
- 9.Top 10 of 1992. Nintendo Power. 44. 120. January 1993.
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