1990 · Aicom · Basketball · Sports

Ultimate Basketball

Nintendo exclusive

Shoot some hoops with Ultimate Basketball. All of the traditional rules of basketball apply as you take control of a fictional team from one of seven American locales. Each team has its own full roster of players as well as unique strengths and weaknesses. For example, Houston has a tight defense and can shoot the three, while Dallas excels at the passing game.

Released: 1 September 1990
Platforms: NES
Genres: Basketball Sports
Developers: Aicom
Publishers: Sammy Corporation
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Country: Japan

About

Ultimate Basketball is an NES basketball video game. It was released in September 1990 by American Sammy. The game was later licensed by Taito and released in Japan as Taito Basketball (タイトーバスケットボール). This video game is completely unrelated to the Amiga video game of the same title and was represented on the American television series Video Power.

Keywords

basketball

Media

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Gameplay

The game plays like a conventional sports video game. 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 professional or college basketball players. The players a player may select for a team are entirely fictional, as are their statistics.