GAMbIT Magazine Issue #26 April 2017 | Page 36

Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball is pretty lame and you'll need a beer to get through it. Thanks you and goodnight! Anyhow, this game is utter crap on a number of levels and might actually be the worst sports game to ever come out. It's so bad that my college roommate bought this game for me for $1 as punishment after he rented one weekend as a kid. Just imagine how bad a game has to be that after a single weekend it still sticks with you, raising your blood-pressure. Bill Laimbeer is apparently some basketball player who played on the Pistons and known for being a giant asshole at a time when the entire team was known for being assholes. It's actually pretty impressive if you think about it in a really shitty light. For whatever reason this meant he was the perfect person to slap on the title about a basketball game that takes place in the year 2030. The gameplay was ages behind even NES basketball games with the action using a really strange overhead view of the court. This means that you just looked down at the top of heads that all looked the same with flailing arms while they ran about. The games main feature was the lack of rules and destructive items. Seems like a cool enough idea, but the execution was completely lacking. But most shocking was that the game only used a single button to do everything when the Super Nintendo controller featured six.