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Golden Basket

1990 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ3395658 ↗
Source-derived summary

Golden Basket is a 1990 basketball video game developed and published by Opera Soft under their Opera Sports label for the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, and MS-DOS.

Gameplay

The game features a five-a-side basketball match, showing a lateral view.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Golden Basket” is 1990 video game. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Golden, Basket and video, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990. For this dossier, Golden, Basket and video is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1990 video game” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3395658. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Golden Basket primary sources, Golden Basket archive and Golden research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Golden Basket” 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.