Tecmo NBA Basketball is a multiplatform basketball game that combines real time

Real-time strategy

Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....

 action with cinema

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

-style cutscenes. The quality of graphics is similar to Tecmo Super Bowl

Tecmo Super Bowl

Tecmo Super Bowl , is an American football video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was released in 1991...

. There is an option to play an all-star game

National Basketball Association All-Star Game

The National Basketball Association staged its first All-Star Game in the Boston Garden on March 2, 1951. From that year on, the game has matched the best players in the Eastern Conference with the best players in the Western Conference....

, with an option to select the players on that team.

The game is notable for having featured a rare appearance from Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a former American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats...

 in a video game and featured all current NBA teams and players from the 1991–92 NBA season.