NCAA Basketball #3 All the ecstasy of victory and agony of defeat

Introduction

Choose your team from five of the top NCAA basketball conferences and lead it through the grueling tournament to a berth in the Final Four and a national championship! Or, challenge a friend to a head-to-head exhibition game.

NCAA Basketball offers more than just a super realistic viewpoint on the action. Call the play, sub in your best players and give it your best shot! Hear the crowd go wild with every shot you hit. All the ecstasy of victory and agony of defeat unique to college hoops is here in NCAA Basketball.

NCAA Basketball is a simulation basketball game developed by Sculptured and published by Nintendo (HALKEN for the Japanese version) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan (on June 19, 1992 as Super Dunk Shot), North America (on October 1992), and in Europe (on July 22, 1993 as World League Basketball).

Utilizing the platform's Mode 7 technology, NCAA Basketball is the first basketball game to be presented in a dynamic 3D perspective. The game's camera follows the ball (and the athlete controlling it) while focusing on the goal basket. This technique was also used in the studio's later sports games NHL Stanley Cup and Tony Meola's Sidekicks Soccer.

While the North American version is licensed with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (the first game to do so) and uses real college teams from five of its Division I conferences (with fictional players), other regions use their own set of original teams. The Japanese version uses fictionalized versions of real-life teams from the National Basketball Association, while the European version uses fictional teams representing different worldwide cities.

Along with standard exhibition matches, the game includes seasonal play (which uses the cartridge's battery-backed memory for saving).

• The excitement of the NCAA Tournament
• 44 top college teams
• Seven offensive and seven defensive strategies
• Supports two players
• Battery back-up