Ultimate Basketball is a NES

Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...

 basketball video game. It was released in September 1990

1990 in video gaming

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 by American Sammy.

Gameplay

The game plays like a conventional sports video game. The player choses from a list of seven available teams, and controls five players on the team on the court, though only one player may be directly controlled at a time. There is a championship mode and a single game mode in the game.

The game is unlike later sports based video games in that doesn't use real professional or college

College basketball

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 basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 players. The players a player may select for his team are entirely fiction

Fiction

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al, as are their statistics.

It was possible for so many players to foul out that only three or four were on the floor at the end of the game.

Teams

• New York Powers
• Los Angeles Eagles
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• Detroit Unions
  Detroit, Michigan
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• Chicago Wolves
• San Diego Dolphins
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• Dallas Fighters
  Dallas, Texas
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• Houston Comets
  Houston, Texas
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