20th August 1992
All-American Baseball
Zeppelins can't jump! As we have already told you. But what would happen if you took Zeppelin's Five-A-Side Football team, gave them a new set of rules, the same ball, and an ever-so-slightly different pitch (now called a court)... You'd get basketball, that's what! All-American Basketball, in fact.
I have to admit that this is the neatest bit of dual programming I've seen in ages. Some bright spark up in Houghton Le Spring is obviously onto a good thing here... It's not often you get the chance to program two games with the same sprites, is it? Anyway, presuming this is some sort of sequel to Five-A-Side Football, what is it likely to offer?
Just for your information, basketball is an odd sport. The court is 94 feet long by fifty feet wide with a net ten feet off the ground at either end. It's a five a side game where the players dribble and pass the ball up the court to score by putting said ball in the basket a la Michael Jordan. The basket itself should be two feet wide and the board behind it 4 feet high.
In one of the screenshots, the player in the centre is taking a free throw. This happens when a played is fouled. The amount of free throws depends on the type of fouls. Let's see how well Zeppelin match up their screen version to this exacting specification.
