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Basketball

Basketball (XSX) game cover art
Platform: Atari 2600
Tags: Sports, Basketball
Developer: Atari
More Platforms: Intellivision, Switch

Publisher
Region
Released
NA
??/??/1978
EU
??/??/1988

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Reader Reviews

Basketball review

Reviewed November 01, 2004

ddsilver says: "The “Launch 20” for the Atari 2600 contained 5 sports titles (6 if you consider Flag Capture a sport). 25% of the initial release catalog was dedicated to sports gaming. That’s not a surprising number here in 2004. We can go back to the launches of the X-Box and Game Cube and see that sports game development was a highly discussed topic both pre and post-launch. In 1990, the then recently released Sega Genesis advertised heavily on its wide variety of (at the time) incredibly realistic sport..."
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Basketball review

Reviewed October 14, 2010

JoeTheDestroyer says: "Shoot some hoops with me, bro."
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Basketball review

Reviewed October 31, 2003

retro says: "Like all of the sports games for Atari 2600, Basketball is as basic as it can get. It looks absurd and it's terribly dated, but it can still be a little bit of fun, believe it or not. "
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