Dick Vitale's "Awesome, Baby!" College Hoops

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Dick Vitale's "Awesome, Baby!" College Hoops

Sound driver: GEMS

Genre: Sports

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1994		T-48236
AU	1994		FDIC03SMC

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Dick Vitale's "Awesome, Baby!" College Hoops is a basketball game with commentary from US sportscaster and former basketball coach Dick Vitale. It features numerous college basketball teams, and was developed and published by Time Warner Interactive in 1994.

The game is unusual in that it attempts to create a fully 3D experience on Sega Mega Drive hardware, something assumed impossible. Depending on who has the ball, the screen rotates to face behind the player, rather than having a side-on view like NBA Jam. Unfortunately due to console limitations, this means there are no backgrounds (minus the floor and hoops), the rotations are choppy and the framerate is lower than in most games.

Though likely intended for a US-only release, Dick Vitale's "Awesome Baby" College Hoops managed to find its way to Australia. Rather than design new box art, Time Warner simply decided to plaster stickers on the box relevant to Australia, creating some tacky results.

Promotional material

Print advert in Sega Visions (US) #21: "October/November 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in EGM² (US) #5: "November 1994" (1994-1x-xx)
also published in:

Game Players (US) #0710: "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (1994-xx-xx)^[1]

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

50

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Game Players (US)

NTSC-U

46

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GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

75

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Tricks 16 bit (RU)

65

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VideoGames (US)

NTSC-U

70

^[6]

	61
Based on 5 reviews

Mega Drive, US
Cover

Mega Drive, AU
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	1312cf22
MD5	441c32abf70cf3587096fb4819205b80
SHA-1	2aac7a1cf92e51a14fd3e12a830e135fee255044

2MB

1994-07

Cartridge (US)

References

↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 60
↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 89
↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 11 November 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 162
↑ GamePro, "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 112
↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 51
↑ VideoGames, "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 90

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0710.pdf_p60-1] Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 60

[2] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 89

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0711.pdf_p162-3] Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 11 November 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 162

[:File:GamePro_US_063.pdf_p112-4] GamePro, "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 112

[5] Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 51

[:File:VideoGames_US_69.pdf_p90-6] VideoGames, "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 90

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Dick Vitale's "Awesome, Baby!" College Hoops

From Sega Retro

Contents

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References