schuwalker Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 (edited) On my quest to complete my CIB *black box* collection recently, it got me to thinking... why no basketball??? Basically every genre of the popular sports' fields are covered sans basketball. Anybody know why to the query? Edited November 27, 2017 by schuwalker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+swlovinist Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 I know that Double Dribble was an early release. My only thoughts were that they might of had an agreement with Konami to not publish a basketball game due to this game being released. Amazing game btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 I hate to say go elsewhere, but if there would be anyone who likely would have a really solid or even sketchy answer would be one of those historian level collectors at NintendoAge. Despite being Nintendo overall, they're more NES hardcore than the rest when it comes to interesting stuff. Maybe one of them will have some oddball back alley info why they never bothered. It is entirely strange given they bothered with something like volleyball but not basketball. The other sports have pretty strong followings in various markets that they made sense with baseball, tennis, soccer(football), US football(10yd fight) and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 With the exception of Slalom, the black box releases are comprised entirely of games that were already available in Japan. The original Japanese versions of these games were handled exclusively by Nintendo themselves (Irem's titles aside), and Nintendo did not have a basketball game in Japan during this period. Without a Nintendo-owned basketball game already existing in Japan for an easy re-release in North America, this is likely why the sport is not featured in the black box series. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 That is an interesting question. I never thought of that before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 That would be a good opportunity for a homebrewer, to make a basketball game in the style of the early NES sports games. -Thom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Good point, someone should just do it. One I did leave out we got hosed out of by them was F1 Race that they did too which would have been a black box series sports(racing) title too and it's not bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.