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Basketbrawl

» Atari 7800»1990»Atari To be honest with you, the Atari 7800 is not a system I’m tremendously well-acquainted with, largely for lack of opportunities to dabble with it. I never came across one in a charity shop or at a boot sale, and rarely saw the system outside of conventions. Plus, it’s not like the library has been widely ported. That’s why I was so pleased to see the system represented on Atari’s collections for the Evercade - finally, I’d get a chance to sit down and spend some proper time with games like Motor Psycho, Planet Smashers and, of course, Ninja Golf. But while the unlikely mixture of long drives and high kicks is more notorious, I spent more time with another mixture of combat and sports - Basketbrawl.

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