''Ultimate Basketball'' is an NES basketball video game. It was released in September 1990 by American Sammy. The game was later licensed by

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and released in Japan as . This video game is completely unrelated to the

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video game of the same title and was represented on the American television series '' Video Power''.

Gameplay

The game plays like a conventional sports

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. The player chooses from a list of 7 teams, and controls five players on the team on the court, though only one player may be directly controlled at a time. There is a championship mode and a single game mode in the game. Unlike later sports based video games, ''Ultimate Basketball'' doesn't use real

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players. The players a player may select for a team are entirely

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al, as are their statistics. It was possible for so many players to foul out that only three or four were on the floor at the end of the game. In the Japanese version, a generic cheerleader comes over to the player and kisses him for winning the championship.

Teams

* New York Powers * Los Angeles Eagles * Detroit Unions * Chicago Wolves * San Diego Dolphins * Dallas Fighters * Houston Comets

Reception

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gave this video game a score of 3.5 out of 5 in their overview.

References

External links

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