| College Football's National Championship | |
|---|---|
 Cover art | |
| Developer(s) | BlueSky Innovations [1] |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Platform(s) | Sega Genesis |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Traditional American football simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player [3] Multiplayer |
College Football's National Championship is a 1994 American football video game that was released exclusively for the North American Sega Genesis video game system. A sequel, College Football's National Championship II , was released in 1995. [4]
The game is based on the 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season. [5]
Considered to be a clone of NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana with college teams, the game used exactly the same engine as the original program. Exhibition games and a tournament mode are available but not a regular season mode. Four players can play simultaneously with the help of the Team Player adaptor. Tournaments can be completely customized with either a customized schedule length and even a customized selection of opponents. [3] Even the Wishbone and Option formations that were used in college football at that time were included. [5] [6]
Lon Simmons does the voice commentary in the game; he did the voice for all the Sports Talk Baseball series of video games for the Sega Genesis. There is a battery save that saves team records that are important for each college. [3]
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