| Graham Gooch World Class Cricket | |
| Developer: | Audiogenic |
| Publisher: | Audiogenic H.E.S. PTY Ltd. Commodore 64 |
| Designer: | Gary Sheinwald Peter Calver |
| Programmer: | Gary James Gray |
| Artist: | David Peacock Herman Serrano Richard Beston |
| Composer: | David Whittaker |
| Platforms: | Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS |
| Released: | 1993 |
| Genre: | Sports |
| Modes: | Single-player, multiplayer (up to two players) |
Graham Gooch World Class Cricket is a cricket video game developed and published by Audiogenic in 1993. It is endorsed by former England cricketer Graham Gooch and is available for the Amiga and PC computer systems.
The player can play either test matches or One Day Internationals. There are three types of bowling fast, spin and swing. The fielding can either be set manually or automatically. There are three difficulty settings to play at, Amateur, Professional and World Class. The game has pseudo-3D graphics with details such as the shadows of players moving as the sun moves. All test sides (in 1993) are included including a World XI team to play as. Batting averages and other statistics are included.
Graham Gooch World Class Cricket has many different versions available:
There were also two updates for the game:
An Atari Jaguar conversion of the original version was in development by Williams Brothers Developments and planned to be published by Telegames and was showcased at SCES '94 in a non-playable state,[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] with plans to be released around the first quarter of 1995 and later scheduled for a Q2 1995 release but this port was never released due to Atari Corporation exiting from the home video game console market.[6] [7] [8] [9]
After Graham Gooch's World Class Cricket, Audiogenic developed Brian Lara Cricket for the Sega Mega Drive which was licensed to Codemasters. In 1996 Codemasters took over the Audiogenic development team and then went on to release a series of cricket games under the Brian Lara and Shane Warne brands. Brian Lara Cricket is a rebranded version of Graham Gooch World Class Cricket.
