
NBA LIVE 18 ALLEY OOP MODS
I already owned NBA Live 96 and NBA Live 97 on PC at that point, but I wanted to complete my collection, as well as check out some of the mods and editors from a website I’d discovered: the NBA Live Series Center. Years later, I picked up a cheap copy of NBA Live 95 PC, when I saw it on sale at the local newsagents of all places. It wouldn’t be the last time I played a Season in NBA Live 95. Undoubtedly, I got my $3 worth of gameplay that week! I won the title, and though the championship celebration on SNES wasn’t anything that special, it still felt like a big accomplishment. This was before I hopped aboard the Sim Train at the time, I was a kid who was crazy about basketball and just wanted to dunk, hit threes, and win games. I won the championship with a Chicago Bulls team led by Scottie Pippen, who averaged around 40 points and 8 steals per game. It required playing a 26 game season on three minute quarters with a single elimination format in the Playoffs, but I did it. On one particular rental, I managed to play through an entire Season and Playoffs.

Sometimes you could be lucky, but you couldn’t count on your save being intact the next time.

Because of the limited number of save slots, and the fact that there was no way to prevent the next person who rented the game from messing with your save, you could generally kiss your Season game goodbye if you didn’t finish it by the time you had to return the game. There were no memory cards or hard drives, so when you returned the game, your saves went with it. Some games did allow you to save your progress, but these saves were stored on battery backup within the cartridge itself. Now, here’s the thing about renting video games in the era of Super Nintendo. As such, I rented it out for a week at a time on more than one occasion. I wished that I owned the game, but new video games were a luxury reserved for birthdays. Now, I never got into hockey (and neither did my friend, come to think of it), but NBA Live 95 made a great impression on me for all the reasons that I outlined in my retrospective. I rented it, while my friend ended up renting NHL 95. When I saw NBA Live 95 for Super Nintendo on the shelf, I knew that I had to check it out. I was really getting into basketball, and since I was already into video games, I naturally wanted to combine those interests. That’s how I came to discover NBA Live 95. We played a lot of the classics, but we didn’t necessarily own them. See, while a lot of people did have gaming consoles, they didn’t necessarily have an extensive collection of games.
NBA LIVE 18 ALLEY OOP TV
What a concept, right? All jokes about technology marching on aside, back in the day it was fun to head down to your local video store and rent some movies or TV shows for the weekend or, for that matter, video games.
NBA LIVE 18 ALLEY OOP MOVIE
Rather than stream a movie over the Internet – and man, would that have been painful to do on dialup – we went and rented a physical copy on VHS tape (and later, DVDs) for a set number of days. It’s the story of how I came to be a fan of the series…and also, how I engineered an unlikely comeback for Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird.īack in the 90s, we had these things called video stores.

Specifically, I wanted to talk about playing NBA Live 95 for the first time on Super Nintendo, and playing a Season with the Houston Rockets with my cousin on PC. I hope you enjoyed my retrospective of NBA Live 95 that tipped off our celebration of the 25th Anniversary of NBA Live! Although I shared some personal memories of the game in my retrospective, I have a couple of other stories that I’ve saved for their own separate article.

Whether you’re a long-time basketball gamer who grew up with NBA Live and are keen on taking a trip down memory lane, or you’re new to the series and want to learn about its history, we hope that you enjoy celebrating the 25th Anniversary of NBA Live here at the NLSC! Today, I’m sharing some personal recollections of NBA Live 95. To mark the 25th Anniversary of NBA Live, we’re taking a look back at every game in the series with retrospectives and other fun content! This also includes re-running some features from our 20th Anniversary celebrations, with a few revisions.
