Basketball is an Atari 2600 game loosely based on the sport of the same name. The game features a simple game of one-on-one basketball playable by one or two players, one of the few early Atari 2600 to have a true single player feature with an AI-controlled opponent.
SportActionbasketballplayer vs playerAtari 2600, Atari 8-bit
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Character
Intimate, earnest, plot-driven and grave.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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About the game
- Platforms
- Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit
- Developer
- Atari
- Publisher
- Atari
- Released
- December 31, 1978
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- Side view
IGDB rating 6.0/10 from 14 ratings.
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