Basketball (1979 video game)

Basketball
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Atari, Inc.
Publisher(s)Atari, Inc.
Programmer(s)Chris Downend[1]
Platform(s)Arcade
ReleaseArcade
  • NA: May 1979
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Basketball is an arcade video game released in May 1979 by Atari, Inc.[2] It was the first basketball video game with a trackball for player movement and the first to use the angled side view which became a commonly used perspective in the basketball video games that followed.[3]

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  2. ^ "SEC Info - Atari Inc".
  3. ^ Loguidice, Bill; Barton, Matt (2012). Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time. CRC Press. p. 126.