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Championship Bass

2000 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ39058104 ↗
Source-derived summary

Championship Bass is a fishing video game. It was released for PlayStation and Microsoft Windows in 2000.

Gameplay

Championship Bass is a fishing video game. It offers three different modes: Bass Challenge, Fishing Trip, Tournament, and Career.

Development

Championship Bass was developed by EA Seattle and Engineering Animation and published by EA Sports.

In March 2012, Championship Bass was released on the PlayStation Store for the Sony Xperia S. On August 30 the same year, the game and twenty-five other games were added to the PlayStation Vita store.

Reception

The game received above-average reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. In Japan, where the PlayStation version was ported and published by Electronic Arts Square on November 2, 2000, Famitsu gave it a score of 24 out of 40.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Championship Bass” as 2000 video game. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. The account is most persuasive where Championship, Bass and video can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2000 video game. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q39058104. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Championship Bass” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.