bigh0rt wrote:I agree. I think online gaming has squashed the experiences I loved about sports gaming growing up. Having a bunch of friends over and pulling an all nighter with a custom draft, schedule, playoff, etc. When Madden allowed you to start a multi-team season with a fantasy draft, it was next level for my friends and I, who had been doing this with Live for so many years.
I don't think it was until Live 96, that you could Clone players onto custom teams. One of my friends would just make a team entirely of Steve Smiths, which I always thought was weird, but apparently memorable enough two and a half decades later.
It's definitely the popular thing now. Playing next to someone on a couch or in front of the same PC was a different experience that I don't know a lot of younger gamers indulge in; not when they've got online readily available. I know it's the grumpy old man I'm turning into, but I think it does account for some of the toxicity these days. Back then, you had to know how to get along with people and be a good sport, otherwise other kids weren't coming back over, nor inviting you back to play!
NBA Live 95 had the custom teams with clone players as well. A whole squad of Steve Smiths is pretty funny. It's something you can't do in MyTEAM/Ultimate Team, actually. Even if you have different cards for the same player, you can only have one instance of them in your lineup. A shame, because I had at least 5 MJ cards in my collection in NBA 2K19!
maumau78 wrote:I remember the exact day I bought NBA Live 95 for PC....there was no internet in EU at the time....I discover the game becouse I went to a shop in the City after school.....I rememeber me going back home with the train with this wonderful BOX on my hands....I can't describe the emotion the first time I play it
I will always remember stay up late with good friends playing Rockets vs Magic......god what time of my life was 1995
I think now I just want to cry a little bit.....
You're in good company! The games have come a long way, but there was something special about those releases all the same. I still think they're fun to dust off every once in a while.
Dee4Three wrote:For me, NBA Live 96 was actually the breakthrough for the "Live" series as far as play time for me. I played the EA Sports titles prior like Showdown, Bulls vs Blazers etc, and did indeed play Live 95. But Live 96 and Coach K College Basketball (College version of Live 96, same gameplay) I was hooked on.
NBA Live 96 PC is one of my all-time favourite games. It's also the game that led me to find the NLSC back in 1997, back when Tim, Lutz, and Brien were running the site. I definitely have a lot of nostalgia for it!
NBA Live 96 stuff will be coming up next, along with at least one more thing for NBA Live 95. Stay tuned!