Brian Lara Cricket '96 (also known as Lara '96) is a follow up to Brian Lara Cricket

Brian Lara Cricket

Brian Lara Cricket is the first in a series of cricket games to be endorsed by Brian Lara. There have been more games in the series, Brian Lara Cricket '96, Brian Lara Cricket '99, Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 and Brian Lara International Cricket 2007. Brian Lara Cricket was released on...

 and the second game in the Brian Lara

Brian Lara

Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM is a former West Indian international cricket player. Lara is generally regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time...

 endorsed series of cricket video games. It was developed by Audiogenic

Audiogenic

Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...

 for Codemasters

Codemasters

The Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986...

 and released in the summer of 1996 for the Sega

Sega

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 Mega Drive, Amiga

Amiga

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 and PC

IBM PC

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 systems.

Gameplay

The style and method of game play is almost identical to previous versions of the game. Lara '96 featured the updated player names and statistics of the 1997 cricket season. Notable additional features include the capability to play as English county sides and a player editor.

Technical information

Lara 96 uses the same pseudo-3D graphics used in its predecessor, but the animations and sprites have been updated.
This game uses a serial EEPROM (24C65 type) for backup.

See also

• Brian Lara
  Brian Lara
  Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC, AM is a former West Indian international cricket player. Lara is generally regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time...
  
  
• Brian Lara Cricket series
  Brian Lara Cricket series
  The Brian Lara Cricket series is a series of six cricket video games that are endorsed by the West Indian cricketer Brian Lara and published by Codemasters.-The Games:...
  
  
• Audiogenic
  Audiogenic
  Audiogenic Software is one of the oldest United Kingdom video game developers. It was established in 1985 out of the ashes of an earlier Audiogenic company that had been founded in the late 1970s. It published its last new title in 1997, after the core of the development team were taken over by...
  
  
• Codemasters
  Codemasters
  The Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986...