College Slam (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

College Slam

Part of the NBA Jam series of basketball games, College Slam allows you to choose from over 40 real college teams and take part in head-to-head games, tournament games, and season-long play. The gameplay is…

62 31 January 1996

What College Slam is

College Slam is an arcade game developed by Iguana Entertainment and released in 1996. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Part of the NBA Jam series of basketball games, College Slam allows you to choose from over 40 real college teams and take part in head-to-head games, tournament games, and season-long play. The gameplay is arcade-style two-on-two fast action featuring backboard shattering wild dunks, power-ups and other crazy moves. The game also features fight songs from all the available teams.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

How it was received

College Slam holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 8 points below the year average.

What it launched against

College Slam launched on 31 January 1996, within three weeks of Soul Edge, Guardian Heroes, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara and Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Soul Edge, Guardian Heroes, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara, Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom.

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