TV Sports Basketball

[youvalss]

Has anyone ever played this game? I think it was released around 1990 or so, and I played it mostly in 1992-1993 on PC. As far as I can remember, the default rosters didn't have real names (probably due to rights), but it had something close. I think on Chicago you had a guy called Mike Jordache, and other players' names were made of the same formula.

I remember that after a couple of times playing it at my friend's house and getting familier with the default rosters and ratings, I went home and created a list for full rosters with all players and even ratings for each and every player. I then went to my friend's the next day and spent probably a couple of hours editing all the rosters...

It's obviously a young Michael Jordan (with hair) on the cover (I used to have a little poster of MJ with that pic)...but they changed his uniforms and mumber (and removed his arm band?) and thought no one would realize? What was going on there?




** EDIT **

There it is:




The official(?) website for this game:
http://www.cinemaware.com/clsgame_tvbasketball.asp


Anyway, the game had great graphics for back then and it was pretty unique to me. I was addicted at some point...

Here's a little gameplay video

[Badger142]

Looks like a good game.

[youvalss]

Yeah, it was my favorite basketball game back then. And what was nice, was that you could kind of shoot leaners, or maybe runners, which was very rare back then. It had a nice physical engine and the dunks were also nice.

[Wjkporter]

Wow!!!!!! i lover that game... Man, you went back with that one...

[youvalss]

Haha, yeah, I used to love it too. I used to have a buddy who had it and we played it in his house. And I kinda made friends with another (sort of) buddy - to come over to play it (I think I wasn't able to play it on my computer back then). I would go to his house, play it and then leave. We didn't have much in common, but at least I got a chance to play the game (yeah, it wasn't nice).

[jfsolo]

It wasn't until College Hoops 2K8, and NBA 2K9 that any basketball games completely overtook TV Sports Basketball in terms of how much fun I had playing them.

Being a broke college student, I couldn't afford a computer, so I bought the game and played it at my cousin's house. If I'd had that game and Earl Weaver Baseball at home, they might have invited me to leave school, and I probably would have got fired from my job too.