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Genre: Sports | |||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1-2 | |||||||||||||||
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Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs is a 1989 basketball game for IBM PCs by Electronic Arts. EA ported it to the Sega Mega Drive in 1990. Lakers versus Celtics was the first basketball game to be licensed by the NBA (though curiously acquired the players' name rights without going through the NBA Players Association). For its time, Lakers versus Celtics was considered to be the top basketball video game on the market, and was highly received by the press.
The Mega Drive version, though very similar to the original DOS game in nature, makes some slight adjustments to reflect the teams taking part in the 1990 NBA Playoffs (as opposed to the original's 1989 roster). As a result, the Seattle SuperSonics, New York Knicks and Jazz are replaced with the Portland Trail Blazers, Philadelphia 76ers and San Antonio Spurs, respectively.
Though the North American version of the game is relatively common (as are its "sequels", Bulls vs Lakers and the NBA Playoffs and Bulls versus Blazers and the NBA Playoffs), the European version of the game is abnormally rare, to the point where for many years, its existence was widely doubted. It has been suggested that EA originally ran into legal troubles when it came licensing the game in Europe, and may have had to recall copies of the game shortly after release. According to an old Electronic Arts spreadsheet 192 copies of the game left EA but only 13 are known to have surfaced. A copy went on sale on ebay on 26 June 2017 attracting bids above £9000. Supposedly it was set to be re-released as EA Basketball in 1992, though this never happened
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Production credits
- Genesis Programming by: Jesse K.Taylor IV, Carl Mey, John Tomlinson
- Graphics and Animation by: Paul Vernon, Arthur Koch, Cynthia Hamilton, Peggy Brennan
- Sound and Music by: Rob Hubbard
- Technical Director: Richard Hicks
- Produced by: Don Traeger and Jim Rushing
- Assistant Producers: Jon Horsley, Michael Meischeid, Happy Keller
- Original Design by: Robert Weatherby
Magazine articles
- Main article: Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
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Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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External links
References
- ↑ File:EGM US 019.pdf, page 26
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 47
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 9
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 8
- ↑ ', "October 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 40
- ↑ ', "October 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 2
- ↑ ', "October 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 90-92 (90)
- ↑ ', "October 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 44-45 (46)
- ↑ ', "October 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 168
- ↑ ', "October 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 79
- ↑ ', "October 1990" (; 1990-xx-xx), page 18
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 111
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 119
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 82
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 131
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 90
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 26
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 46
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 38
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 168
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 93
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 42
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 79
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 41
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 139
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 141
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 53
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 18
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 66
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 101
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 61
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