Basketball (1979 video game)

Basketball
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Atari, Inc.
Publisher(s)Atari, Inc.
Programmer(s)Chris Downend
Platform(s)Arcade
ReleaseArcade
  • NA: May 1979
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Basketball is an arcade video game released in May 1979 by Atari, Inc. It was the first basketball video game with a trackball for player movement and the first to use the angled side view which became a commonly used perspective in the basketball video games that followed.