Your First NBA Game!! What was it?

[HustlinOwl]

Double Dribble

[Colossus]

NBA In The Zone 2. I loved the anthems and the introductions

[yungflo]

it was either nba live, nba jam, or nba courtside. i can't remember. i think i played nbalive 00 on pc, courtside, and nba jam on 64.

[ILLSmak]

Yeah, I don't really count Jam or Arch Rivals or DD... my first game that I really got and played and was into was Live 95.

-Smak

[VDusen04]

Quote: Originally Posted by jmarcguy

Tecmo was crazy! It was very possible to have 100 pt games. All players looked alike but they looked like people at least! Magic Johnson Fastbreak was 2 on 2 action. You could steal every inbounds pass & run the score up like crazy. There was some game where you could knock players down coming up the court. It was meant to be a funny take on bball. NBA Showdown by EA had signature moves. Jordan in one of his last game appearances did a crazy windmill slam. No recognition of positions though. Centers would bring the ball up the court!! People today have no idea how good they've got it!! I also remember hearing the "it's in the game" thing for the first time.

Ha, nice, we have similar basketball histories. I can't remember for sure, but I may have played Jordan vs. Bird first on the NES. I did own Magic Johnson's Fast Break though (unlike Jordan vs. Bird). I totally used to think the Pepsi advertisement was sweet graphics.



While those games featured NBA players, they weren't truly NBA games so to speak. My first NBA game was Tecmo NBA Basketball. This is where my love for the San Antonio Spurs initially took off (hello, Sean Elliott and Willie Anderson!)


And, to round things out, I also had NBA Showdown but word on the street is the SNES version had some players the Sega version did not, which may account for the lack of MJ and Barkley in my version. The Pistons had Dan O'Sullivan though so it all kind of evened out.


Honestly, for as arcade as NBA Jam was, that was the game that took things to the next level for me, in terms of the announcing, fast pace, 360 dunks, and realistic NBC-looking score overlay; so awesome at the time. Oh, and at half-time there was a real highlight tape (like a miniature Jam Session) featuring Horace Grant dunking and fist-pumping into the camera on the baseline. Coolest thing ever.

[Tha_Kid]

As a kid, started here:



but that wasn't an NBA game lol

First one was NBA Jam SNES

after that I was a NBA In the Zone guy plus Shootout '98

First Live was 2000 (later played '95 & '96)

Then played 2K1 on a friend's dreamcast and was hooked once they ported to Xbox

[youvalss]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tha_Kid

As a kid, started here: but that wasn't an NBA game lol

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I played this one. My first console was a brownish thing called "Educate"...or something like that, and I got it in 1982. I'm pretty sure I had this game (or something similar) on it. Then I got my first computer in 1983, it was called Sinclair Spectrum.

[Jano]

Tecmo Super NBA Basketball was the first game I had ever played and owned (was really my older brothers game but he didn't play it) I was really young though so I didn't know who the teams or the players were.

I don't remember it as vividly as NBA 2K1 which was probably my first official NBA game. From 2K2 and Live 2002 I've been following basketball and videogames regularly. It was actually NBA 2K2 that got me as interested in the NBA as I am now.