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| Dunk Mania | |
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| Developer(s) | Namco |
| Publisher(s) | Namco |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
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| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Arcade system | Namco System 11 |
Dunk Mania is an arcade video game developed and published by Namco in 1996.
Dunk Mania is a basketball game that features motion-capture in a two-on-two slam-dunk contest. [2]
| Publication | Score |
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| Next Generation |   [2] |
Dunk Mania was only a moderate success in Japan. [3] Next Generation stated that "in following the herd, one does begin to wonder whether it's a flashy first effort with deeper games to come, or if it's just a great-looking, cookie cutter basketball coin-op with no real sense of the sport itself underneath all the glitz." [2]
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