Nba live 2003 windows 7 series#
The series returned with NBA Live 14 in November 2013. After 16 consecutive seasons of releases, an effort to retool the game as NBA Elite 11 met with development troubles, and put the game on hiatus for three years. Each version's initial release was in the fall near the start of the NBA campaign, though additional ports were sometimes delayed until as late as January or February. This naming pattern using the forthcoming year has continued, except for varying to use of all 4 digits of the year from 2000 to 2005. In the fall of 1994, the annual EA basketball release received a simpler title of NBA Live 95. Multiple custom team, 3rd party in game advertisement, white box cover, all NBA teams. NBA teams and players, signature moves in team game.Ĭo-operative play, instant replay in team game. Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs
The final game in the series was NBA Showdown 94 for the Sega Genesis before the transition to the NBA Live series. The series also included an Olympic basketball spinoff game, Team USA Basketball (1992) which uses the same engine. Each revision added more teams and players, as well as more signature moves. Unlike the first game, these two releases were titled after the two teams who were in the NBA Finals the previous season, while the original release apparently chose the Lakers and Celtics due to both teams' historical success, in particular their rivalry in the 1980s. Lakers, released in 1991, followed by Bulls vs. The next game in the series was Bulls vs. The game featured only eight of the sixteen teams that qualified for the NBA playoffs that year, as well as both NBA All-Star teams. Details such as Horace Grant's goggles are clearly visible, and Michael Jordan's "Air Reverse Layup" is animated with very high accuracy. The game was one of the first to feature an NBA license, containing both real NBA teams and player likenesses and signature moves. This game was played from a horizontal view (while later versions moved to an isometric view before ultimately moving to 3D on newer consoles). Celtics, released first in 1989 for MS-DOS-compatible PCs and later adapted for consoles in early 1990 for the Sega Mega Drive. The predecessor of the NBA Live series was the NBA Playoffs series, which featured Lakers vs.