College Football's National Championship

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College Football's National Championship
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega
Developer: BlueSky Software
Sound driver: GEMS
Peripherals supported: Six Button Control Pad, Team Player
Genre: Sports
Number of players: 1-4
Release Date RRP Code US 1994-08 1227
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College Football's National Championship is a 1994 American football game for the Sega Mega Drive by Sega released exclusively in the US. The game has a focus on American college/university teams. It was followed by College Football's National Championship II.

College Football's National Championship is heavily based on NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana, running on the same engine with similar aesthetics.

Production credits

• Producer: Chris Smith
• Assistant Producer: Gerald J. DeYoung
• Executive Producer: Wayne Townsend
• Sega Sports Team: Scott Rohde, Wallace Poulter, Mike Meischeid, Chris Cutliff, Rosie Freeman
• Lead Tester: Todd Morgan
• Assistant Lead Testers: Dave Perkinson, Matt Underwood
• Testers: Rich Gangwish, Randy Hauser, Lance Nelson, Dan Caraballo, Mark Dawson, Brian Dawson, Jeff Junio, Chris Pepper, Ivan Foong, Tyrone Johnson, Tracy Johnson, Rich Wong, Mark Paniagua, Keven Seiter, Dave Martin, Atom Ellis, Tony Lynch, Mark Subotnick, Gregg Watkins, Tim Spengler, John Jansen, Julio Martinez, Matt McKnight, John Melchior, Bill Person, Maria Tuzzo, Aaron Hommes, Sam Saliba, John Kirk, Mark Griffin, Steve Bourdet, Derek Carmichael, Robert Lee, Arnold Feener, Rick Greer, Siegie Stangenberg
• Manual: Neil Hanshaw, Carol Ann Hanshaw
• Marketing: Doug Rebert, Kelly Ryan
• Developer: Blue Sky Software
• Designers: Chuck Osieja, Mark Dobratz, Chris Smith
• Project Manager: Mark Dobratz
• Programmer: Bryan Kiss
• Lead Artist: Joe Shoopack
• Artists: Mark Dobratz, John Seidel, Rick Randolph, Liz Anderson, Ryan Lehr, Scott Seidel
• Sound & Music: Sam Powell
• Sports Talk: Allen Maynard, Joe Shands
• Special Thanks: Stephen Patterson, George deGolian, Jennifer Haney, Pat Battle, Jennifer Blackmon

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: College Football's National Championship/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source VideoGames (US) 90

	90
Based on 1 review

Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 30 Game Players (US) NTSC-U 91 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 85 VideoGames (US) NTSC-U 90

	74
Based on 4 reviews

College Football's National Championship

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
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✔	CRC32 898c17fa MD5 eeccdf938647966faf96e9fc827ba1b6 SHA-1 4b30eea2fb1187cf3c9150f9dee5b5b9571c76f5	2MB	1994-06-20	CD-R disc				Page
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✔	CRC32 994dbc8f MD5 301feb771cecf210103b2f7052a004b8 SHA-1 99e5ec2705fac1566e47fd813d6cf5b5e7f7daf4	2MB	1994-06-01	CD-R disc				Page
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✔	CRC32 8cfd4c86 MD5 8518e388de65856c0f7922cf4efc1e00 SHA-1 01ed2026a930383d926d71192b2a8f9417dfb245	2MB	1994-05-17	CD-R disc				Page
✔	CRC32 ce65b294 MD5 5a6786aa9f3bb94bde9e05d26c2b5e64 SHA-1 b16e953b695148b8284f87be566774379c4c2453	2MB	1994-05-11	CD-R disc				Page
✔	CRC32 0a538e75 MD5 45921b29b5331aa154f52af17707ec6d SHA-1 ee673500aef188ca7cf086fb1cf616b58896fdcb	2MB	1994-05-06	CD-R disc				Page
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✔	CRC32 99da1973 MD5 ca3afcd0fb30a95d83597865a9b8f3aa SHA-1 11e333a326ea71f77b816add76defc8f2846710d	2MB	1994-04-29	CD-R disc				Page
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References

American Football games published by Sega
Joe Montana Football (Mega Drive) (Master System/Game Gear) (DOS) (1990) | Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football (1991) | NFL Sports Talk Football '93 Starring Joe Montana (1992) | Joe Montana's NFL Football (1993) | NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (1993) | NFL '95 (1994) | Prime Time NFL Football Starring Deion Sanders (1995) | NFL '97 (1996) | NFL 98 (1997)
Joe Montana NFL Football (IBM PC) (unreleased) | NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (Game Gear) (unreleased)
College Football
College Football's National Championship (1994) | College Football's National Championship II (1995) | NCAA College Football 2K2 (2001) | NCAA College Football 2K3 (2002)
NFL 2K Series
NFL 2K (1999) | NFL 2K1 (2000) | NFL 2K2 (2001) | NFL 2K3 (2002) | ESPN NFL Football (2003) | ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004)