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Publisher: Codemasters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Audiogenic Software | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Sports | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1-4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brian Lara Cricket is a 1995 cricket game for the Sega Mega Drive by Audiogenic Software and Codemasters released for the Sega Mega Drive exclusively in Europe. It was followed by Brian Lara Cricket 96.
Contents
Gameplay
While Brian Lara Cricket was the first cricket game to be endorsed by Brian Lara, its game engine derives from the 1993 release of Graham Gooch World Class Cricket for the Amiga, Atari ST and IBM PC (itself a pseudo-sequel to 1985's Graham Gooch's Test Cricket).
With the exception of Brian Lara's likeness, the game lacks a license from any official cricket body, so uses fictional players.
History
Release
Brian Lara Cricket was a surprise success for Codemasters. While initial feedback from retail was that the game was unlikely to sell, 20,000 copies were manufactured by Codemasters' own plant during 1995
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[6]. The game was sold out within three days
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[7], with roughly 80,000 units produced overall
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[8] (only going out of print to make room for Brian Lara Cricket 96).
Magazine articles
- Main article: Brian Lara Cricket/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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1MB | 1995-06 | Cartridge (EU) | ||||||||||
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1MB | 1995-03 |
References
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 67
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 67
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 67
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 78
- ↑ https://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/features/tracing-the-origins-of-gaming-in-india-8-bit-cricket-sega-and-cloning-640129 (Wayback Machine: 2014-12-28 17:48)
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 48
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 49
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 49
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 ', "July 1995" (; 1995-05-27), page 67
- ↑ ', "July 1995" (; 1995-05-27), page 76/77 (76)
- ↑ ', "July 1995" (; 1995-05-27), page 40/41 (40)
- ↑ ', "July 1995" (; 1995-05-27), page 37
- ↑ ', "July 1995" (; 1995-05-27), page 78
- ↑ ', "July 1995" (; 1995-05-27), page 76
- ↑ ', "July 1995" (; 1995-05-27), page 1
- ↑ ', "July 1995" (; 1995-05-27), page 40
- ↑ ', "July 1995" (; 1995-05-27), page 11
- ↑ ', "July 1995" (; 1995-05-27), page 41
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