The evolution of basketball games between 1974 and 2023. Find in this video all the basketball games released since 1974
#basketball #nbavideogames #VideoGamesEvolution
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0:03 1974
0:14 1978
0:35 1979
0:56 1982
1:06 1983
1:17 1984
1:38 1986
1:59 1987
2:51 1988
3:33 1989
4:26 1990
5:39 1991
6:11 1992
7:24 1993
8:38 1994
10:23 1995
12:28 1996
14:03 1997
14:55 1998
16:19 1999
17:43 2000
19:39 2001
20:31 2002
22:47 2003
24:12 2004
25:15 2005
26:28 2006
28:02 2007
29:16 2008
30:08 2009
30:50 2010
31:22 2011
31:32 2012
31:43 2013
32:04 2014
32:25 2015
32:46 2016
32:56 2017
33:28 2018
33:59 2019
34:10 2020
34:20 2021
34:31 2022
The miraculous thing is at the time each of these games came out they were the ish
Ikr
Except for Live 07.
@@LB14745 I think that’s fair. I’ll give you that. I enjoyed live 07 when it came out but there was PLENTY more to be desired lol
@@bbryant9455 I meant the 360 version, it was totally messed up. Animations were terrible, and players couldn’t even run like humans.
Not Bill lambier’s combat basketball
I just love seeing games from the past. Some are better than the newer ones ngl. Great video!!👏🙂
7:58 the M.J. in flight is WAYYY before time..
So true. Graphics got better but the direct control and motion got lost. I loved nba live back in the 90s and early 20s
I remember seeing Run and Gun 2 in arcades. I use to think that spin move was the realest thing in the world
Loved that game
The animation and gameplay was way ahead of its time. The first in the series is a classic as well.
Man they just needed The real players. And I don’t think that was on any of the major consoles. Just arcade.
im 40 years old and played many of these games when they came out and let me tell you young ppl something funny, these games look horrible to you now but back when a lot of these games first came out, they looked so realistic to us. 🤣 im laughing so hard looking at the graphics of these games. you guys have it made today. this was a great trip down memory lane
Yup and those were the good times young bucks out here will never know how awesome those times were
@@gearswitch8193 yea. Our video games weren’t good like they are now, but we had it better back then because we were connected to our communities before the internet. We had to go outside and play. The games are so good now, the kids don’t want to go outside anymore. That’s the downside of the evolution of technology
Facts…im 40 too & in here rolling. Like damn what happen to my Bartman poster and my still Army men toy figure 🤯😱🤣
@@mr.bond2023 Yeah a punishment back then was. Act up in school it’s an a$$ whooping and ur not going outside to play. Gotta continue that game of tag from yesterday cause you were It 🤣🤣
@@gearswitch8193 and in 10-20 years those “kids” will be saying the same thing about these “new games.”
Good thing about these old games is you could just pick up the controller, play and have fun, and then move on with your life. Nowadays, you’re paying and then paying more, and playing and then playing more, and it’s a 6-12 month commitment just to casually enjoy the game. That’s great for those who are committed, but we’ve lost something along the way. Either way, “kids” play the games so they’re doings something right.
As for me, I appreciate the simplicity and fun those 90’s games in particular brought. Some of their gameplay is just as rewarding than these newest games, if not more.
I loved NBA Jam, NBA Give n’ Go, and NBA Street Volume 2. Double Dribble on NES was my first.
I remember playing Jordan v Bird, Lakers v Celtics, NBA live and NBA shootout 98. Then I stopped playing games and went back in 08 with 2k and still playing 2k to this day. Such great memories and the games today are unbelievable.
nba live 2001 was my first nba i played
Yo!! What a trip down memory lane. Friend’s use to go at it in Coach K College Basketball, had soo many of these. Thanks for taking the time to put this together!
Couldn’t u break the backboard in that? I always remember hearing that rumor
Man I remember playing a lot of the old games but I was in love with NBA Jam T.E. and NBA Live ’95 – ’97
NBA LIVE 95 !!! Yes.
I wish they’d bring back the live games. Something about them.. I always thought they looked better than 2k games. And deep enough gameplay to not get bored like w straight arcade style hoops.
NBA live 95 slow motion dunks..♥️♥️
BUUHHH! the FOUL sound! Remember you could run and HIT opponents with TWO hands forward like a double fisted punch or push? I used that CHEAT heaps when i was a teen. PUNCH sound at 14:29-14:33
NBA Live 95 will always have a place in my heart
Kevin Garnett
I still have it
To me, THAT’S the one that changed everything
@@camrencross645 agreed. The gameplay was so much smoother compared to all the ones like Bulls vs Lakers, which were so clunky and frustrating.
Agree. Same here
Fun fact: Everytime these games were released we used to say “the graphics are amazing!”
Now gamers are so refined “good graphics” is referred to as “art style”. I’m going to review games and keep it old school(5th grade to be exact). “The games got good grafix. It’s awesome. The other game is for dorks.” ✌️ And then as I walk through a doorway jump up and slap the top of it as if doing so validated my claim of being NBA bound. Like 🙌 💥 🤷 See?! Toldja..
I remember seeing my friend play his PlayStation 1 for the first time and (being very high at the time) declaring that video games graphics had “peaked” 🤦🏾
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The best game 🎮 🙌 👌 💙
@@dogsandyoga1743 N64 and the original Playstation was HUGE as a kid (35 now), spent a LOT of time playing both between my friend having the PS and me the N64. Played Dreamcast with same friend when that came out later too which was an even bigger deal.
2k2 for Dreamcast had the most fluidity of gameplay in that era. Both Dreamcast Football and Basketball were cutting edge, such a highly underrated system.
i never had a dreamcast but yeah, that one looks and probably plays better than a lot of ps2 games
Dreamcast was definitely my favorite
The ball hitting the camera was epic.
Definitely that Dreamcast one was very unique from the rest of the pack
So true, the Dreamcast was a beast but without money sega can’t hold the competition with Sony.
Tecmo NBA Basketball was my second basketball game (Double Dribble being the first) and that game STILL holds up today.
Awesome vid!! I played many of these growing up. It is great to see video game basketball evolution!!!
Jason Kidd doing a 360 at 21:47 took me out lol. So many memories with these games though, love it!
Right. Im like wtf
Shaq Imitating Jordan’s Rock The Cradle Dunk Took Me Out LOL
I see why kids stayed outside back in the day
It started to get better by 2002. Once 06 hit the graphics started getting better and better
NBA Street Vol 2. was damn near perfect. I was an NBA Live guy, but I worked at 2k Games during the development of 2k4 and 2k5. The shot stick, the crossover on the stick, a lot of the stuff we put in the game then is still there today. 🙂
Sweet what was it like working on game’s
i’m 45 and remember most of these game. everytime a new game caneout i thought this is as good as it gets. my favorite was techmo super nba basketball for super nintendo. thanks for making this video, this old man felt like a teenager again
Ultimate Basketball and Street Hoops my favorites…
I’m proud to say I played every incarnation of these games. And yes… I was impressed by the very first ones. Although some stood out more than others.
Dr J vs Larry Bird I paid .50 cents for at a Big Lots in the late 90s. I can’t imagine how much it would go for now. It was actually a different version of what you see here. It was very smooth & played well on my Atari 7600. Way ahead of it’s time & more in line with Double Dribble or NBA live 95.
Double Dribble was the first game to have cutaway scenes when you dunked. You could dunk from the 3 point line if you did it from the bottom or top of the screen. Otherwise free throw dunks were possible from the foul line. This game was PEAK basketball when it dropped.
Bulls vs Lakers/Blazers & the NBA Playoffs Series – This started the “modern” basketball trend. The way I saw it was the programmers who went to EA started putting stars on the players so you could control them. The “B” button became standard to switch players. All the things that ended up in “Madden”, Live, MVP Baseball, etc, & then ended up in the 2K series – started here in what was called “EASN.”
NBA Jam: Still to this day the greatest basketball Arcade game ever made. We spent many hours at Tony’s deli playing this. Also I used to know all the codes, JOR, or BBBBB, would unlock certain things in the game. If you had Tournament Edition on the SNES you had to beat all the teams once, & then after that, things got MUCH harder. You had to play a PERFECT game – or else you lost. This was the era of the game cheating to win at all times. At my peak I don’t think anyone could have beaten me at this game.
Run & Gun: I loved this game at the time but it had a short shelf life. It played hard in the Arcades but the SNES port was weaker. I still played it a lot – however it lost popularity due to the weak port & died on the vine. I still miss those days & played it as recently as last month on emulators.
NBA Live 95: This was THE GAME. Ask anyone. You’ll see it in the comments. Basketball had ARRIVED in all it’s glory. I played it for hundreds of hours. All my players were custom, from whatever school I said so. I averaged 200 points a game & had 6’10” Behemoth pounding the Power Forward glass. I had a 5’7” white haired guy with a 99 slam dunk as a PG. Jordan rode the bench as my 2 alter egos (1 all 99’s & 1 with more realistic stats) dropped tons of points – 1 averaging 60 points a game. This was the beginning of the end for me though as other games just all started to look alike.
NBA Street: This game kept the spirit of NBA Jam alive with updated Playstation graphics. We played this for a little bit but by this time all the games were starting to merge & there were too many brands doing too little things.
NBA 06: The PS2 was on top of the world & I remember having MVP 05 & NBA 06. Some would call this the golden era of sports games because even Madden 06 is remembered as a great year. MVP Baseball was the best game ever (All due respect to the Griffey’s). Then you had NBA 06. A masterpiece that basically every game is based off of today. You could call plays, use special abilities, make trades, draft players. I had a lot of fun with that game. Steve Kerr saying “That shot is unconscionable – only a young Jon Starks would take that.” when you would pull up to the line on a fast break would kill me. Starks is my favorite player – but for Kerr to then turn the Golden State warriors into a logo shooting fast break team would prove him a hypocrite.
You’ll notice every other game after this is pretty much a carbon copy of each other with zero innovation. I had a ton of hope for video games in the late 90s. Now they all look the same. I guess we were spoiled.
Bro literally wrote an essay 😂
Comprehensive response. Legit.
Im 48 and have played about every system and basketball game that’s came out,to me the funnest ones were Coach K for Genesis and the 2K series was amazing on Sega Dreamcast…but I still prefer Madden,from the beginning when a player would get hurt and then killed when the ambulance rode over him all the way to today’s Madden…good memories
Booked my 2 weeks vacation to finish reading this 🙂
I agree with most of what you said. Dr J seemed a bit different than what was seen. Dr. J would do a Statue of Liberty dunk and Bird could shoot 3s. Bulls vs Lakers had special moves like Jordan’s reverse layup or Karl Malones 2 handed dunk. We used to make players with Afros on nba live 95 so you would have a full lineup of ballers with Afros lol. Live 99 was the better live and I played that one the most with my friends. Run and gun was a interesting arcade game that I agree the home port just didn’t live up to the arcade.