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Instruction booklet · October 1992

NCAA Basketball

Sport1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

NCAA Basketball has unique over-the-shoulder perspective that puts you in the game like never before! 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.

Specifications

Released
October 1992
Developer
Sculptured Software
Publisher
Nintendo
Players
1
Genre
Sport
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Series
NCAA
View
Bird view / Isometric

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Players
60/100 (7 ratings)
Consoles +
88%
Computer and Video Games
88/100
Player One
96%
Super Play Gold
84%
BE KIND, REWINDOctober 1992
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Vol. 2 · No. 59Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢
The Omaha World-Pixel
Week of October 2, 1992
Oct. 2

Pittsburgh International Airport's new facility opens in Findlay Township, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The new terminal is built as an expansion for USAir and an upgrade from the older Pittsburgh International Airport facility.

💵 $54.99 in a 1993 catalog · about $123 today

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