Disney Sports Basketball

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Disney Sports Basketball
Disney Sports Basketball GC.jpg
North American GameCube cover art
Developer(s) Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka
Polygon Magic
Publisher(s) Konami
Director(s) Kazunori Yanai
Producer(s) Masakatsu Yamaguchi
Designer(s) Kazuko Otani
Takeshi Matsuda
Programmer(s) Nobuhiro Honma
Tetsuro Noda
Daisuke Fukui
Ken'ichi Hoshino
Composer(s) Nobuyuki Akena
Yasumasa Kitagawa
Platform(s) Game Boy Advance
GameCube
Release
  • NA: November 25, 2002 (GBA) [1]
  • JP: December 19, 2002
  • NA: January 14, 2003 (GC) [1]
  • AU: April 4, 2003 [2] [3]
  • UK: June 6, 2003 [4]
Genre(s) Sports (basketball)
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Disney Sports Basketball [a] is a 2002 sports video game published by Konami. It was released for the GameCube, and the Game Boy Advance.

Contents

Gameplay

DS Basketball lets players control on any team. In the GameCube version, it has a 3 members on each team, but for the Game Boy Advance, it only has 2 members for each team. During gameplay, players must use the corresponding accessory to boost up. This allows the team to either shoot, dunk, block, and more.

Teams

Reception

The Game Boy Advance version received "mixed or average" reviews, while the GameCube version received "generally unfavorable" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [5] [6] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 26 out of 40 for the GameCube version, [10] and 25 out of 40 for the GBA version. [9]

The GameCube release later became an expensive collectible. [22]

Notes

  1. Japanese: ディズニースポーツ:バスケットボール, Hepburn: Dizunī Supōtsu: Basukettobōru

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