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Curious concept this - Street Fighter meets Michael Jordan. What we have here is a basketball game in which it's perfectly OK to hit or kick your opponents when you want to get the ball off them. Apparently this is the kind of thing which happens on most basketball courts anyway, so it could be argued that Atari are going for a new kind of gritty realism in their games.

The visuals in this game are a bit dull. The court is viewed from the side and you can see about half of it at any one time - it scrolls left or right as the action moves up and down court.

There are eight opponents that you can do battle with in the one player version, but the chances are (we had a pre-production EPROM) that the ComLynx version is going to enable you to scrap with your Lynx owning friends - you can all expel your underlying aggression on the court.

Despite that, however, Basketbrawl is unlikely to hold your interest for too long - this basketball game is dull and repetitive. Avoid at all costs.