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SNES Bulls Vs Blazers and The NBA Playoffs

90s SKU KIC-VGAM-0512
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Bulls vs. Blazers and the NBA Playoffs is a 1992 Electronic Arts basketball title for the Super Nintendo, cart only, grey cartridge. This is EA Sports in its earliest institutional form, before the "It's in the game" tagline became a broadcast-era fixture, before the Madden machine made EA a household name in every genre. The cartridge is loose, no box, no manual, which is exactly how most of these survived thirty-plus years of resale and garage sales.

1992 was the epicenter of the Jordan era by any measure. The Bulls were hunting their second consecutive championship. The Blazers, led by Clyde Drexler, had finished the regular season with the best record in the Western Conference and arrived at the Finals as legitimate contenders, not a token opponent. EA captured that specific matchup and froze it in silicon before Game 6 even happened. The title is a time stamp: the NBA in the exact moment Jordan was converting skeptics into believers at scale, before the Dream Team, before the second three-peat. The game shipped with full NBA team rosters and NBPA player licenses, so Drexler, Pippen, Robinson, Barkley, Stockton, Malone are all in there under their own names. No fictional stand-ins, no placeholder numbers. EA negotiated real player identity into the cart at a time when that was still a point of competitive differentiation among sports game publishers.

The anti-glamour shot: elbows, scramble, and the ball somewhere in the scrum.

This copy shows honest wear consistent with a cart that got played. The label is intact with no major tears, which matters more than people realize because SNES labels are thin stock and they peel at the corners first. Contacts should be cleaned before first play, standard procedure for any unboxed cart of this age. The game runs on any North American SNES hardware without a region adapter. Before you commit, run your thumbnail along the cartridge edge seam and check that the shell halves sit flush, no gap, no warping from storage. That seam tells you more about the cart's storage history than the label ever will.

OWNER VERIFY: Confirm the 1992 production year against the cartridge label copyright date before listing the year in any resale description.

The anti-glamour shot: elbows, scramble, and the ball somewhere in the scrum.
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This snes bulls vs blazers and the nba playoffs originates from the 90s era[01], represents Nintendo[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.

Super Nintendo cartridge for "Bulls vs. Blazers and the NBA Playoffs" by Electronic Arts. The standard grey SNES cart features an action photograph from a real NBA game. Players battling for the ball in a packed arena, with the Chicago Bulls and Portland Trail Blazers prominently featured. "BULLS VS. BLAZERS AND THE NBA PLAYOFFS" in bold red text. NBA team logos line the left side. Blazers, Cavs, Jazz, and others visible. Electronic Arts (EA) publisher logo on the right. Licensed by Nintendo. Made in Japan.

Bulls vs. Blazers and the NBA Playoffs (1992) by Electronic Arts was one of EA's earliest basketball games. Predating the NBA Live series that would later dominate the genre. The game was named after the 1992 NBA Finals matchup between Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls and Clyde Drexler's Portland Trail Blazers. One of the most anticipated Finals of the era. All NBA playoff teams were included with their logos and team names. This was EA Sports before the "It's in the game" era, when they were still building their sports empire on the SNES. The Bulls-Blazers rivalry captured in 16-bit form. A time capsule from Jordan's first three-peat.

Super Nintendo cartridge, loose. Pre-owned. See photos for condition.

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