College Football's National Championship

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College Football's National Championship
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega
Developer: BlueSky Software
Licensor: National Collegiate Athletic Association
Sound driver: GEMS
Peripherals supported: Six Button Control Pad, Team Player
Genre: Sports (American football)
Number of players: 1-4
Release Date RRP Code US 1994-08 $64.9964.99 1227

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College Football's National Championship is a 1994 American football game for the Sega Mega Drive by Sega released exclusively in the US. The game has a focus on American college/university teams. It was followed by College Football's National Championship II.

College Football's National Championship is heavily based on NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana, running on the same engine with similar aesthetics.

Gameplay

Teams

• Alabama Crimson Tide
• Arizona Wildcats
• Arkansas Razorbacks
• Auburn Tigers
• Boston College Eagles
• BYU Cougars
• California Golden Bears
• Clemson Tigers
• Colorado Buffaloes
• Florida Gators
• Florida State Seminoles
• Georgia Bulldogs
• Houston Cougars
• Illinois Fight'n Illini
• LSU Tigers
• Miami Hurricanes
• Michigan Wolverines
• Nebraska Cornhuskers
• Notre Dame Fight'n Irish
• Ohio State Buckeyes
• Oklahoma Sooners
• Penn State Nittany Lions
• Pitt Panthers
• San Diego State Aztecs
• Stanford Cardinal
• Syracuse Orangemen
• Tennessee Volunteers
• Texas Longhorns
• Texas A&M Aggies
• UCLA Bruins
• USC Trojans
• Washington Huskies

Production credits

• Producer: Chris Smith
• Assistant Producer: Gerald J. DeYoung
• Executive Producer: Wayne Townsend
• Sega Sports Team: Scott Rohde, Wallace Poulter, Mike Meischeid, Chris Cutliff, Rosie Freeman
• Lead Tester: Todd Morgan
• Assistant Lead Testers: Dave Perkinson, Matt Underwood
• Testers: Rich Gangwish, Randy Hauser, Lance Nelson, Dan Caraballo, Mark Dawson, Brian Dawson, Jeff Junio, Chris Pepper, Ivan Foong, Tyrone Johnson, Tracy Johnson, Rich Wong, Mark Paniagua, Keven Seiter, Dave Martin, Atom Ellis, Tony Lynch, Mark Subotnick, Gregg Watkins, Tim Spengler, John Jansen, Julio Martinez, Matt McKnight, John Melchior, Bill Person, Maria Tuzzo, Aaron Hommes, Sam Saliba, John Kirk, Mark Griffin, Steve Bourdet, Derek Carmichael, Robert Lee, Arnold Feener, Rick Greer, Siegie Stangenberg
• Manual: Neil Hanshaw, Carol Ann Hanshaw
• Marketing: Doug Rebert, Kelly Ryan
• Developer: Blue Sky Software
• Designers: Chuck Osieja, Mark Dobratz, Chris Smith
• Project Manager: Mark Dobratz
• Programmer: Bryan Kiss
• Lead Artist: Joe Shoopack
• Artists: Mark Dobratz, John Seidel, Rick Randolph, Liz Anderson, Ryan Lehr, Scott Seidel
• Sound & Music: Sam Powell
• Sports Talk: Allen Maynard, Joe Shands
• Special Thanks: Stephen Patterson, George deGolian, Jennifer Haney, Pat Battle, Jennifer Blackmon

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: College Football's National Championship/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Sega Visions (US) #21: "October/November 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 30 Game Players (US) NTSC-U 91 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 85 VideoGames (US) NTSC-U 90

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College Football's National Championship

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

Main article: College Football's National Championship/Technical information.

References

American Football games published by Sega
Joe Montana Football (Mega Drive) (Master System/Game Gear) (DOS) (1990) | Joe Montana II Sports Talk Football (1991) | NFL Sports Talk Football '93 Starring Joe Montana (1992) | Joe Montana's NFL Football (1993) | NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (1993) | NFL '95 (1994) | Prime Time NFL Football Starring Deion Sanders (1995) | NFL '97 (1996) | NFL 98 (1997)
Joe Montana NFL Football (IBM PC) (unreleased) | NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana (Game Gear) (unreleased)
College Football
College Football's National Championship (1994) | College Football's National Championship II (1995) | NCAA College Football 2K2 (2001) | NCAA College Football 2K3 (2002)
NFL 2K Series
NFL 2K (1999) | NFL 2K1 (2000) | NFL 2K2 (2001) | NFL 2K3 (2002) | ESPN NFL Football (2003) | ESPN NFL 2K5 (2004)