Tecmo NBA is brilliant. It was the only game that had strategy. You could run plays, set screens, isolate and post up. Calling a play would give you a better chance of scoring rather than taking random shots. It was head and shoulders above NBA live and it was a tough challenge
Definitely underrated tecmo nba i had it on snes and my brother had an genesis but he always played this on my system as a 7yo kid I didn’t fully understand all the strategy but i still loved the game but i owned almost all of these games at some point
literally i just would find the fast break, or pass the ball until my player has an angle to the hoop. The ocassional hookshot in the post. There is no need for any play calling.
Its nice to see Tecmo Super NBA Basketball get a little love as a pretty good game. It was probably the first SNES game I ever played and owned. Great video as always. You're an inspiration to Snes collectors. :)
I remember I would go to create a player on NBA Live 96' and I would type in Michael Jordan and all of his attributes would appear instantly from correct height and skills to even correct school he played for. The same would go for Magic, Bird, Barkley and a few others. It was awesome!
the moment we discovered it back then at my friend's home... man, that was magic. I remember using a Guinness World Records book to discover old great players to unlock (in 90's Spain, NBA wasn't that well known, we did know the USA92 Dream Team, but not the likes of Chamberlain, Abdul Jabbar...)
From twitter: "With Kevin Garnett's retirement. There are now no more active players that can be played on the Super Nintendo & the Sega Genesis or Saturn of NBA Jam." Well unless you count Hillary
Top 5 basketball SNES games according to SNESdrunk 5. 5:44 Looney Tunes Ball 4. 4:30 Dream Basketball: Dunk & Hoop 3. 2:14 NBA Live series 2. 6:43 NBA Give 'n Go 1. 7:13 NBA Jam
My favorites for basketball here are "Tecmo Super NBA Basketball", "NBA Jam T.E.", "NBA Live '95", and "NCAA Basketball". I vaguely remember playing that Magic Johnson game, and it's a real floater, as is the Bill Laimbeer one.
I remember Davidson from that NCAA game! We had a house rule with that game, no one was allowed to be UNC because he was so overpowered that anyone playing against that team had no chance. Also, LOL at "Some of these phrases are still used today." Yeah, by the guy that did the commentary for that game, he works for ESPN.
Tecmo Super NBA Basketball is a hell of a lot of fun, even today. My stock-in-trade in that game is to select the Phoenix Suns, start Kevin Johnson, Jeff Hornacek, Dan Majerle, Cedric Ceballos and Tom Chambers and try to run the other team off the court :)
My favorite was NBA Hangtime. Not because you could play as santa or the wolf man, no. Because you could just run around shoving people to the ground and the ref would never call foul.
What I was finally looking for!!!! LOL!!! But, as a big basketball fan who has owned the SNES since 1992, this video will help me recommend some people who are looking for good basketball games for the SNES!!! Excellent informative video, +SNES drunk. My personal basketball favorites are: NBA Give N' Go, NBA Live series (mainly '95 and '96), NBA Jam series, NCAA Basketball, Tecmo Super NBA Basketball, Bulls vs. Blazers and NBA All-Star Challenge.
Give And Go is a port of an arcade game called Run And Gun. RAG didn't have NBA licensure, so they got NBA approval and changed the name to sound less violent. Great game.
@@Jburneyjr ive never seen a home port of it. I read in a gamer mag that had famicom reviews that Dream felt similar to it and assumed it was a sort of port.
You absolutely saved the best for last. Besides nba jam of course. Tecmo basketball got tons of run on our block. Craig Hodges was automatic from three point line
NBA Showdown was my favorite back then. It felt the most like an arcade 5 on 5 while still having some strategy to it. Sure it was slow as hell but that came with the territory of snes sports games.
Finally, someone else that had and played NCAA Basketball on the SNES! I loved that game! But NBA Jam: Tournament Edition was the SNES basketball game me & my friends played to death.
Great video, so much nostalgia for me here. I grew up on a lot of the early 90's sports games like NHL 94, and of course Tecmo Super Bowl and even some of the bad ones like NBA All-Star Challenge (it was all I had to play for a while!) I even got one of my childhood friends into sports games just by showing him NBA Jam, and he hated sports games before that. Funny you mentioned Tom Gugliotta during the NBA Live part, I used to have fun making custom teams of 15 Gugliottas and pitting them against NBA teams...they didn't fare well. I still pick up Tecmo NBA and NBA Jam from time to time, I may have to revisit some of these!
I remember sleepovers playing bill laimbeer's combat basketball for hours. I don't know if we really liked the game or just didn't have anything else to play.
I got Give and Go off eBay a couple of weeks ago. It's really good for what it is. I still haven't gotten the hang of whatever defense there is, but I was shooting threes with Reggie Miller all day long.
Thank you so much for doing what you do. I have one of those retro clone SNES mini systems (wife bought it by mistake thinking she was getting me the actual SNES mini). However, I was really pleasantly surprised when I got it and found out that it has EVERY NES and SNES game on it and the emulations are just like the original and has original-like controllers. This particular clone system is awesome, so much better than Nintendo's version. So I really appreciate you reviewing these games so I know which games to check out (and subsequently which ones to avoid).
Super Tecmo Basketball is severely underrated! I also loved the NCAA game with the blue background. I killed it with Oklahoma State, as they had a player who had a 75% 3 point shooting ability.
This comment is 4 years late but thanks you for giving NBA Give 'N Go it's respect. Underrated overachiever based off an Arcade cabinet that did it a little better. This was my favorite SNES Basketball game without a doubt.
I remember playing NBA JAMS on the 64 with 4 players at my friends house back in the day.......with created players of course!! Can't tell you how many hours we put into that game
There was one NBA Live game where you could add Jordan and Barkley and some of the top Rookies at the time in the Create Player Mode. I think it was ‘96. That would be the one I’d recommend, since it has that cool feature.
Still playing NBA Live '96 on SNES in 2020! Yep, the easy create-a-player and trades were an awesome addition! Years back I rounded out all the rosters with only players that played for those teams along with the best of my favorite created legends. It was an undertaking, but it was well worth it. The keep scores close option allows for some nail-biters and there's an option to play every team once for a complete season. It's a great game. Tecmo NBA Basketballl (SNES) is solid too, but beware the Sega Genesis version as it does not save trades.
My brothers and I still play NBA Jam to this very day when we get the chance. Aside from Super Mario World, it's our go-to multiplayer game on the SNES.
@6:54 This game is forgotten about because the same company Konami had already released this exact game in the Arcade a good 2 or 3 years earlier and it was called Run -n- Gun basketball. Run-and-Gun didnt have an NBA License and used generic teams but that didnt matter back then... it was fun so people played it. By the time Give-n-Go came out for home systems with an NBA license... people had moved on because NBA live was newer and fresher and we'd already played the better version of the same game in the Arcade. A little chronological context from a newly old dude. I was 11 years old when SNES came out now I'm early forties.
Eugene Chee I learned about Looney Toons basketball from SNES Drunk videos. The game is awesome! I wish I had known about it as a kid. I sing "Kill the wabbit!!!" every time I use Fudd's defense power, because he dons that horned opera helmet and shoots lightning. LOL
I like seeing NCAA Basketball get some praise, it was one of the first SNES games I had. There were some other players who almost never missed a shot, I want to say McManus on... Tennessee? The red/yellow/green passing icons were very intuitive too.
I guess I didn't see this before. You're description of NBA Showdown was inaccurate. Every NBA team was present and you could play a full season. Also Lakers VS Celtics was on PC before Genesis. You should look up the arcade game by Konami called Run And Gun. That's what Give And Go is based on.
NBA Live 96 had a create a player mode. If you entered a name like Jordan or Bird it would create the player with the right look, number and stats. 95 and 96 did a stat track trick. It only tracked the stats of your team. They had generic stats for the players on other teams (the iconic players would be among the league leaders in the appropriate categories) that allowed you to try to be among the "league leaders". Great memories of 95 and 96.
Nice video! Great to see all of the basketball games released for good old SNES. When I was a kid I was a huge basketball fan. So I own three of those games myself. Well kind of. I own NBA Jam TE, Give‘N‘Go and a game not featured in this list. I don’t know if it was already mentioned in the comments somewhere but there was also World League Basketball. It's the NCAA game but without licenses. I guess the publisher wasn’t convinced NCAA teams would sell properly outside the US. So for the international market they made up teams around the globe like Warsaw Lynx, Berlin Bears or the New York Apples. It took a while but eventually I would really enjoy playing it. Japanese market got yet another version of the NCAA game. A really strange one. called Super Dunk something. Did you ever hear of the Chicago Bills and their Superstar Jordun? No!? But you must have heard of Boston Celleries legend Bard!
I have always felt that the 16-bit NBA Live games were kind of a secret gem. It was impressive how much you could do with 3 buttons (I played 96 on Genesis). The isometric view made it easy to see everything that was happening on screen, and the way players react to contact with each other created a surprisingly effective mechanic that allowed you to set up picks, shot fake and do low-post work. You can also control your speed a lot more fluidly than in other games from this era. It was cool that you could call out plays in the moment, and choose your go-to offensive sets ahead of time. By holding the pass button you could hand the ball off to the computer, who then runs the point. This allows you to do stuff like set off ball screens, run backdoor cuts and set up pistol action plays. What other NBA games from that era go this deep in playmaking? In the midst of all of these realistic features, you could also turn on slow motion dunks, and hard fouls would send players flying comically off screen. The animations were well done and occasionally players would bust out hook shots, finger rolls, and impossible 360 dunks. I still play this game sometimes and it always surprises me how close it got to real basketball considering the limitations of these systems. Compared to Live, some of these other games play more like Streets of Rage-style beat-em-ups.
If you like those NBA Live games and have a Genesis near you, try Coach K Basketball. Its the same gameplay, but with NCAA teams, and its a quite well done. Doesn´t have a bunch of customization like Live 96, but the gameplay is top notch, specially with universitary defensive rules, its much harder to score compared to NBA.
Why did All Star Challenge court look so good for that era...? I loved Give N' Go. It's the first game I remember being able to switch a dunk to a crafty layup
hey snesdrunk, theres actually a game you missed in the jpn slam dunk series called slam dunk sd heat up. no qte and actually has live gameplay. fun, check it out!
Arch Rivals for the nes, was the original NBA Jam. You should really try it out - it's very fun and great looking and reminds me of the Bad News Baseball game but with basketball.
That Elmer Fudd laugh after he sinks the three is gold.
Tecmo NBA is brilliant. It was the only game that had strategy. You could run plays, set screens, isolate and post up. Calling a play would give you a better chance of scoring rather than taking random shots. It was head and shoulders above NBA live and it was a tough challenge
Definitely underrated tecmo nba i had it on snes and my brother had an genesis but he always played this on my system as a 7yo kid I didn’t fully understand all the strategy but i still loved the game but i owned almost all of these games at some point
literally i just would find the fast break, or pass the ball until my player has an angle to the hoop. The ocassional hookshot in the post. There is no need for any play calling.
NCAA Basketball for the SNES was so huge for me. The center for Oklahoma State was the other Davison- that guy who could shoot 90% from midcourt.
This game was so good
That was Lark if I remember right. Good times.
Its nice to see Tecmo Super NBA Basketball get a little love as a pretty good game. It was probably the first SNES game I ever played and owned. Great video as always. You're an inspiration to Snes collectors. :)
Thanks for watching Alex
agreed. my only gripe with the game is that i feel it shouldve reflected the 1992-93 season
@@kefkarothsephka7708 No Bird or Jordan No Magic. Hell nah.
@@AnObliviousCelticsFan jordan was still playing in 1992-93
@@AnObliviousCelticsFan Jordan was in the SNES version. Bird and Magic were there just not named.
Nba Jam TE was an institution. Playing as the fresh prince and jazzy jeff will never get old.
Just make sure u keep his wifes name out ya mouth lol
I remember I would go to create a player on NBA Live 96' and I would type in Michael Jordan and all of his attributes would appear instantly from correct height and skills to even correct school he played for. The same would go for Magic, Bird, Barkley and a few others. It was awesome!
Being a Bullets/Wizards fan I could make Wes Unseld
NBA live 95’ was the shit
so you would have the anonymous and unanonymous versions of him being named roster player and michael jordan
Exactly
Yeah I think EA got in trouble over that lol.
Jordan, Bird, Chamberlain, etc. are in Live 96 you just have to create them. Enter the name and the game will load the ratings, height, etc.
All the first round picks from that year are also unlockable in the creation suite.
Yup, also Barkley, Jabbar, (Dr. J) Erving, M. Johnson. I put a heckof a lot of time in that game throughout my youth.
Beat me to it! lol a whole year later :p
i created all draft picks and latest trades of year 99 on nba live 98
the moment we discovered it back then at my friend's home... man, that was magic. I remember using a Guinness World Records book to discover old great players to unlock (in 90's Spain, NBA wasn't that well known, we did know the USA92 Dream Team, but not the likes of Chamberlain, Abdul Jabbar...)
The court reflections in NBA All-star Challenge really were next level. That's about as realistic an effect as I've ever seen on SNES
Glad to see Tecmo Super NBA Basketball getting some love!
Same here. Turn the game speed to fast and it is solid. I wish it kept track of individual stats like the football games tho.
Jason Lease it did
Yea it did
I did a 10-video series playing through the season mode as The Suns not long ago. It’s still fun.
Yeah that game was nice and I never see anyone talk about it. Plus it had jordan, and as we know that was a rarity l!
nice video, I was waiting for Tecmo Super Basketball to come up! discovered it two years ago when I picked it up for $1, solid title.
These reviews are just what we need sometimes. Love the old games. Great memories.
My first NBA Jam in the age of 10 really bring back memories of playing San Antonio Spurs; Sean Elliott and David Robinson are my all-time pros.
From twitter: "With Kevin Garnett's retirement. There are now no more active players that can be played on the Super Nintendo & the Sega Genesis or Saturn of NBA Jam."
Well unless you count Hillary
Haha!
TheCrewExpendable hh
how bout reptile, sub zero, scorpion, and raiden... they are still active
Prince Charles too.
@@nonh1 well, not anymore.
I remember this game called “Run & Gun” at the arcades...Now that game was ahead of its time
dude Run & Gun ate so many of my quarters
John Fenton 😂😂😂😂
#classic
NBA Give N' Go was pretty much the same thing. Fun game
Classic!!!!... hands down the best game without being on a console
This was an amazing game in arcades
NBA Live series, specially '95, got me hooked. The shots animation on fastbreak, dunk or layup, were amazing for their time.
Barkley has one redeeming factor: the gaiden game.
Tecmo Basketball was a good game that got overshadowed by Tecmo Bowl. It was great that it was mentioned.
Outside of NBA Jam, Bulls vs Blazers, Bill Laimbeer, and Tecmo were my favorites.
Top 5 basketball SNES games according to SNESdrunk
5. 5:44 Looney Tunes Ball
4. 4:30 Dream Basketball: Dunk & Hoop
3. 2:14 NBA Live series
2. 6:43 NBA Give 'n Go
1. 7:13 NBA Jam
My favorites for basketball here are "Tecmo Super NBA Basketball", "NBA Jam T.E.", "NBA Live '95", and "NCAA Basketball". I vaguely remember playing that Magic Johnson game, and it's a real floater, as is the Bill Laimbeer one.
Looney Tunes B-Ball is great! Still one of my favorite SNES games period.
Great multiplayer game
My favorite video series on UA-cam.
I remember Davidson from that NCAA game! We had a house rule with that game, no one was allowed to be UNC because he was so overpowered that anyone playing against that team had no chance.
Also, LOL at "Some of these phrases are still used today." Yeah, by the guy that did the commentary for that game, he works for ESPN.
As a UNC guy, I'd boycott playing in your home, because I wouldn't play as anyone else.
What about OSU, Lark was unstoppable.
Hahaha...Davidson could literally shoot from the half court logo and never ever miss! Loved it! NCAA Basketball was lots of fun.
Looney Toons B-ball comment: Elmer was a hunter, so I'm not surprised he knows trajectory shots.
"In Hanzo voice*: "Simple geometry" HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE
Elmer was a hunter... What's he now?
Dudes a sharp shooter.
@@Jay-cn3jsMr. Technical 🤓
Tecmo Super NBA Basketball is a hell of a lot of fun, even today. My stock-in-trade in that game is to select the Phoenix Suns, start Kevin Johnson, Jeff Hornacek, Dan Majerle, Cedric Ceballos and Tom Chambers and try to run the other team off the court :)
Dan Majerle was so underappreciated
Tecmo Nba basketball was my game on the Nintendo and Sega along with Tecmo Super Bowl
My favorite was NBA Hangtime. Not because you could play as santa or the wolf man, no. Because you could just run around shoving people to the ground and the ref would never call foul.
Ah man, I loved Give n Go. Thanks for making this vid SNESDrunk!
Imagine asking your parents for NBA All Star challenge, and it's the one game you get all year, only to find out it's just horse.
looney tunes b-ball, very underrated
love the mention
What I was finally looking for!!!! LOL!!! But, as a big basketball fan who has owned the SNES since 1992, this video will help me recommend some people who are looking for good basketball games for the SNES!!! Excellent informative video, +SNES drunk. My personal basketball favorites are: NBA Give N' Go, NBA Live series (mainly '95 and '96), NBA Jam series, NCAA Basketball, Tecmo Super NBA Basketball, Bulls vs. Blazers and NBA All-Star Challenge.
Thanks for watching man
Give And Go is a port of an arcade game called Run And Gun. RAG didn't have NBA licensure, so they got NBA approval and changed the name to sound less violent. Great game.
That was my shit, that game should've been updated on a yearly basis like the Live series
dy120481 I LOVED that arcade game. I don't remember ever losing in that game.
Run & Gun was a great arcade game. Give & Go was a nice port of that same game to the SNES. One of the best basketball games ever.
I spent 50 dollars worth of quarters on Run and Gun. That was the game
@@Jburneyjr ive never seen a home port of it. I read in a gamer mag that had famicom reviews that Dream felt similar to it and assumed it was a sort of port.
People played basketball games that weren't NBA Jam? ...huh didn't know.
Yes NBA Jam tournament edition
I played NBA hangtime on my super Nintendo religiously against my brother, we never had jam.
my brothers and I loved 7:54 NCAA
NBA give and go was the game I played on snes.
I did and still do...Not just NBA Jam and NBA Jam TE, I also play NCAA Basketball, Tecmo Super NBA Basketball, NBA Give N Go and NBA Lives 95-98
College Slam with juice mode and all the powers up is amazing. Missouri SG is amazing!
THANK YOU for mentioning the player Davison in NCAA Basketball. Back in the day we had a rule you couldnt use UNC because of him.
Loved Barkley shut up n jam as a kid. Hours n hours playing that game.
You absolutely saved the best for last. Besides nba jam of course. Tecmo basketball got tons of run on our block. Craig Hodges was automatic from three point line
NBA Showdown was my favorite back then. It felt the most like an arcade 5 on 5 while still having some strategy to it. Sure it was slow as hell but that came with the territory of snes sports games.
This brings back so many memories "nba jam" I used to play with air dog
Finally, someone else that had and played NCAA Basketball on the SNES! I loved that game! But NBA Jam: Tournament Edition was the SNES basketball game me & my friends played to death.
I Loved that game and had my buddy play it a couple years ago, he loved it as well.
Great video, so much nostalgia for me here. I grew up on a lot of the early 90's sports games like NHL 94, and of course Tecmo Super Bowl and even some of the bad ones like NBA All-Star Challenge (it was all I had to play for a while!) I even got one of my childhood friends into sports games just by showing him NBA Jam, and he hated sports games before that. Funny you mentioned Tom Gugliotta during the NBA Live part, I used to have fun making custom teams of 15 Gugliottas and pitting them against NBA teams...they didn't fare well. I still pick up Tecmo NBA and NBA Jam from time to time, I may have to revisit some of these!
another great video with awesome content thanks man
Thanks for watching
I LOVE your videos! love your reading and voice :) very fun to watch and learn! keep going!
College Slam, NBA Jam TE, and Live 96 my top 3 faves
I remember sleepovers playing bill laimbeer's combat basketball for hours. I don't know if we really liked the game or just didn't have anything else to play.
I got Give and Go off eBay a couple of weeks ago. It's really good for what it is. I still haven't gotten the hang of whatever defense there is, but I was shooting threes with Reggie Miller all day long.
Thank you so much for doing what you do. I have one of those retro clone SNES mini systems (wife bought it by mistake thinking she was getting me the actual SNES mini). However, I was really pleasantly surprised when I got it and found out that it has EVERY NES and SNES game on it and the emulations are just like the original and has original-like controllers. This particular clone system is awesome, so much better than Nintendo's version. So I really appreciate you reviewing these games so I know which games to check out (and subsequently which ones to avoid).
I mean, you CAN add every snes game to the snes mini. It's possible, and people have done it. It's stupidly easy to do too.
I fuckin' doubt that it emulates as well as you claim it does.
Super Tecmo Basketball is severely underrated! I also loved the NCAA game with the blue background. I killed it with Oklahoma State, as they had a player who had a 75% 3 point shooting ability.
This comment is 4 years late but thanks you for giving NBA Give 'N Go it's respect. Underrated overachiever based off an Arcade cabinet that did it a little better. This was my favorite SNES Basketball game without a doubt.
Well done buddy, I got some ideas for the next SNES tournament we got going, thanks!
I remember playing NBA JAMS on the 64 with 4 players at my friends house back in the day.......with created players of course!!
Can't tell you how many hours we put into that game
Tecmo super nba basketball was a awesome basketball game and still have today
Definitely a childhood favorite of mine
Great video with professional arguments !
NBA Jam TE was the only one played. Glad to see it was the best on your list.
3:40 - "Hey Lou, you reckon we should change the font on the scoreboard graphics to something besides the generic default?"
"Nahhh, c'mon Chief let's head to the cafeteria"
There was one NBA Live game where you could add Jordan and Barkley and some of the top Rookies at the time in the Create Player Mode. I think it was ‘96. That would be the one I’d recommend, since it has that cool feature.
Still playing NBA Live '96 on SNES in 2020! Yep, the easy create-a-player and trades were an awesome addition! Years back I rounded out all the rosters with only players that played for those teams along with the best of my favorite created legends. It was an undertaking, but it was well worth it. The keep scores close option allows for some nail-biters and there's an option to play every team once for a complete season. It's a great game. Tecmo NBA Basketballl (SNES) is solid too, but beware the Sega Genesis version as it does not save trades.
Fantastic videos mate.
I always played the wacky mode in College Slam. It was a ton of fun. Except for the powerup where your hoop disappears.
Tecmo super nba is the best nba game for super nes sides NBA Jam of course love that game to death definitely a great pick up game
My brothers and I still play NBA Jam to this very day when we get the chance. Aside from Super Mario World, it's our go-to multiplayer game on the SNES.
NBA GIve n Go...many hours of my youth. Loved that game.
Live 96 has a code for a lot of nba legends. Including Jordan and Barkley.
hopefully I will get online play this and use kareem abdul-jabbar and/or even better wilt chamberlain and/or bill russell
26 years have past at least. Every now and then I remember Davison. Ahh the memories.
I loved NBA Live 95 as a kid. But of course, NBA Jam TE was amazing too. Great video.
@6:54 This game is forgotten about because the same company Konami had already released this exact game in the Arcade a good 2 or 3 years earlier and it was called Run -n- Gun basketball. Run-and-Gun didnt have an NBA License and used generic teams but that didnt matter back then... it was fun so people played it. By the time Give-n-Go came out for home systems with an NBA license... people had moved on because NBA live was newer and fresher and we'd already played the better version of the same game in the Arcade. A little chronological context from a newly old dude. I was 11 years old when SNES came out now I'm early forties.
DUDEEEE I forgot all about Tecmo Basketball!! I loved using the Hornets and playing a season. Now I want to buy that game again haha
Eugene Chee
I learned about Looney Toons basketball from SNES Drunk videos. The game is awesome! I wish I had known about it as a kid. I sing "Kill the wabbit!!!" every time I use Fudd's defense power, because he dons that horned opera helmet and shoots lightning. LOL
9:24 The Chicago Pops are my favorite breakfast AND Bball team.
I like seeing NCAA Basketball get some praise, it was one of the first SNES games I had. There were some other players who almost never missed a shot, I want to say McManus on... Tennessee? The red/yellow/green passing icons were very intuitive too.
I fucking HATE McManus!!
They didn't have the Big Ten on the game. Michigan was one of the best teams at that time.
I guess I didn't see this before. You're description of NBA Showdown was inaccurate. Every NBA team was present and you could play a full season. Also Lakers VS Celtics was on PC before Genesis. You should look up the arcade game by Konami called Run And Gun. That's what Give And Go is based on.
Techmo was tge best
Tecmo, for sure.
It's good seeing someone give Tecmo some love. It is needed.
I waited for Tecmo super NBA basketball.. I was not disappointed
Bulls vs blazers was hot...
NBA Live 96 had a create a player mode. If you entered a name like Jordan or Bird it would create the player with the right look, number and stats.
95 and 96 did a stat track trick. It only tracked the stats of your team. They had generic stats for the players on other teams (the iconic players would be among the league leaders in the appropriate categories) that allowed you to try to be among the "league leaders".
Great memories of 95 and 96.
Nice video! Great to see all of the basketball games released for good old SNES.
When I was a kid I was a huge basketball fan. So I own three of those games myself. Well kind of. I own NBA Jam TE, Give‘N‘Go and a game not featured in this list. I don’t know if it was already mentioned in the comments somewhere but there was also World League Basketball. It's the NCAA game but without licenses. I guess the publisher wasn’t convinced NCAA teams would sell properly outside the US. So for the international market they made up teams around the globe like Warsaw Lynx, Berlin Bears or the New York Apples. It took a while but eventually I would really enjoy playing it.
Japanese market got yet another version of the NCAA game. A really strange one. called Super Dunk something. Did you ever hear of the Chicago Bills and their Superstar Jordun? No!? But you must have heard of Boston Celleries legend Bard!
I have always felt that the 16-bit NBA Live games were kind of a secret gem. It was impressive how much you could do with 3 buttons (I played 96 on Genesis). The isometric view made it easy to see everything that was happening on screen, and the way players react to contact with each other created a surprisingly effective mechanic that allowed you to set up picks, shot fake and do low-post work. You can also control your speed a lot more fluidly than in other games from this era. It was cool that you could call out plays in the moment, and choose your go-to offensive sets ahead of time. By holding the pass button you could hand the ball off to the computer, who then runs the point. This allows you to do stuff like set off ball screens, run backdoor cuts and set up pistol action plays. What other NBA games from that era go this deep in playmaking? In the midst of all of these realistic features, you could also turn on slow motion dunks, and hard fouls would send players flying comically off screen. The animations were well done and occasionally players would bust out hook shots, finger rolls, and impossible 360 dunks. I still play this game sometimes and it always surprises me how close it got to real basketball considering the limitations of these systems. Compared to Live, some of these other games play more like Streets of Rage-style beat-em-ups.
If you like those NBA Live games and have a Genesis near you, try Coach K Basketball. Its the same gameplay, but with NCAA teams, and its a quite well done. Doesn´t have a bunch of customization like Live 96, but the gameplay is top notch, specially with universitary defensive rules, its much harder to score compared to NBA.
Why did All Star Challenge court look so good for that era...?
I loved Give N' Go. It's the first game I remember being able to switch a dunk to a crafty layup
Awesome video, my fav are Tecmo Super NBA basketball, NBA Live 95 and NBA Jam TE!
NBA Hangtime, NBA Jam, NBA Give and GO. where my fav 90s games
That was awesome! Can you do NFL Blitz?
Great Video! you should also do a bottom 5 in these types of vids
College Slam was one of my first PlayStation games. I legit had fun playing this game
Nice Shoot!
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4:38
The Tecmo didn’t make top 5? That’s ludicrous!!!!
Should've been subbed for the Super Famicon game.
NCAA basketball and NBA hangtime gets my vote. And that Davison guy haha never missed no matter where you were on the court
I’ve played the NCAA Basketball game at the Walmart SNES demo quite a few times lol
Subscribed!!! Can you do a video on Spacejam
Good game
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hey snesdrunk, theres actually a game you missed in the jpn slam dunk series called slam dunk sd heat up. no qte and actually has live gameplay. fun, check it out!
Getting to hear boom-shaq-a-laka after a crazy badass dunk was all I wanted too do a Friday nights.
Spot on correct about ncaa basketball lol
Tecmo is the best NBA game on snes in my opinion, I spent hundreds of hours on that gem as a kid! 😀👌
Same here, I played the NES version a ton too before i got a SNES
Im glad you mentioned College Slam. I though i was the only one who played that game.
Great video. Man, haven't basketball games come a very long way?😏
Arch Rivals was dope!
Precursor to NBA Jam. Sadly it was never on SNES.
That sneaker screeching sound pulls you in..I also turn off the fouls and it becomes battle basketball live 95 ;:)
96 has all the legends with a simple code. The best nba live in my book
Arch Rivals for the nes, was the original NBA Jam. You should really try it out - it's very fun and great looking and reminds me of the Bad News Baseball game but with basketball.