Michael Jordan in Flight

Michael Jordan in Flight is a 1993 computer basketball game for DOS. It was developed by and published by Electronic Arts and is endorsed by Michael Jordan although it has no NBA licensed players or teams.[1]

Cover art
Developer(s)Electronic Arts
Publisher(s)Electronic Arts
Producer(s)Jim Rushing
Designer(s)Michael Suarez
Greg Zumwalt
Michael Jordan
Composer(s)Krisjan Hatlelid
Edwin Dolinski
Alistair Hirst
Platform(s)DOS
Release1993
Genre(s)Sports (basketball)
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

The game featured a three-a-side basketball match. The camera is a 3D camera, and the game includes some filmed scenes of Michael Jordan. The game is developed in a court surrounded by nothing (even with no crowd the player can hear clapping sometimes).[2]

Reception

Computer Gaming World praised the "incredible ... 3D-based graphic engine" as being "so far ahead of everyone else", but criticized Michael Jordan in Flight as being too easy because "the product is based on Michael Jordan. Jordan is too good overall". The magazine concluded that it "is the most visually realistic sports software on the market ... Now, they need to apply the technology to a game".[3]

gollark: Isn't that *also* kind of bad? I mean, you're subject to departmental politics stuff probably, have "publish or perish" going on, etc.
gollark: "It's only real work if you do manual labour, because that was around longer and is thus evidently the only valid kind, and it looks more difficult to me."
gollark: Yes, that is silly people being silly.
gollark: You're not really paying them for either as much as just the fact that they can do/make the thing you want and you are, presumably, willing to pay the price they ask for. Going around trying to judge someone else's "worth" in some way is problematic.
gollark: The learning time is amortized over all the other programming stuff they do, and it's not like they would somehow unlearn everything if you didn't pay more. Still, it is somewhat complicated and, er, possibly impossible, although if people want to do it (they regularly do complex things anyway if they're interesting) then why not.

References
  1. Michael Jordan in Flight at Moby Games
  2. Michael Jordan in Flight Archived 2006-03-19 at the Wayback Machine COMPUTE! issue 158 / november 1993 / page 144
  3. Poulter, Wallace (July 1993). "Michael Jordan in Flight from Electronic Arts". Computer Gaming World. p. 12. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
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