Wayback Wednesday: NBA Basketball for Intellivision

This is Wayback Wednesday, your midweek blast from the past! From retrospectives of basketball games and their interesting features, to republished articles and looking at NBA history through the lens of the virtual hardwood, Wednesdays at the NLSC are for going back in time. This week, I’m taking a look back at NBA Basketball for the Mattel Intellivision, in the form of another video retrospective.

I’ve covered some rather old basketball video games for Wayback Wednesday so far, but this is the oldest! Indeed, NBA Basketball for the Mattel Intellivision is one of the earliest hoops games ever made. It’s a game that I’ve planned on covering with a video retrospective for some time now, though I originally envisioned a different context and tone to what I’ve gone with here. I strongly believe that the approach I ended up taking was the right one, as it pays appropriate tribute to what is an important game in the history of the genre. So, let’s take a look back…and I do mean way, way back…

While NBA Basketball is a game that I’m guessing many people in our community haven’t ever played – especially if you weren’t born in the mid 80s or earlier – I hope that you enjoyed this retrospective of a pioneering title! For more basketball gaming videos, from retrospectives and essays to highlight reels and the NLSC Top 10 Plays of the Week, be sure to subscribe to the NLSC YouTube channel. Shout out to Dee for connecting with me on Parsec to play this two player game, in order to get all of the footage! As always, feel free to hit us up with any suggestions of games that you’d like to see us play, as well as cover on the NLSC Podcast or in Wayback Wednesday.

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