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Atari 2600

Basketball

Developer
Atari
North America 1978 Atari
Europe 1988 Atari
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Basketball review HG exclusive

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…

ddsilver · November 1, 2004

Basketball review

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. The graphics in Basketball are nothing to brag about at all. On each side of the court, there…

retro · October 31, 2003

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