Remember this text based college basketball game?

March 17, 2009 8:47 AM

Back in the 80's I played a text based college basketball game on the PC. Anyone remember it?

I played this game with the 1988 NCAA rosters. Not a lot to this game. Basically a score board, a status message and the rosters/stats/subs.

The game play was simply passing the ball around (by pressing the space bar) until you find a player that had a decent percentage shot. Both 2pt and 3pt percentages are given on every possession. Then you hit a key to take one of those shots. Based on player characteristics (ball handling, passing, etc) and defenses there were enough random events (turnovers) that made it interesting. I also remember that players would get tired as indicated by a "T", and if you did not put in a substitute, that player would go from tired to exhausted "E". Once exhausted, the player's abilities declined substantially.

Someone mentioned that it might have been called "Hoops", but I have no way of verifying.

posted by unceman to sports, hobbies, & recreation (3 comments total)

I don't think it's Hoops. I definitely played that one on NES, and the game play you describe is totally different.
posted by JuiceBoxHero at 8:55 AM on March 17

Is it Fast Break Basketball? There are screen shots here...
posted by twiggy at 9:26 AM on March 17

Upon further review, it also appears that hoops was available on the PC.

There's also a currently maintained one called stellar college basketball ... wow.. I had no idea people found this sort of thing fun!
posted by twiggy at 9:31 AM on March 17