Saturday Morning Cartoons: The evolution of basketball games
February 6th, 2010
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This video is just cool, especially for someone like me that basically grew up during the video game revolution. And with a new NBA Jam on its way, this is pretty appropriate. I think my favorite ever was Double Dribble because it was the first one I had. But both NBA Jams were excellent of course and I remember NBA Live ’96 was pretty much the game that brought on the “new age” of games. Anyway, I think you’ll enjoy this short, but sweet video.
The first one in the sequence was Atari Basketball for the Atari 2600. I had it. Hardly an improvement over Pong. But, they left out my favorite from way back in the day.
One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URobcuTcBFU
The best part:
“A hard dunk could shatter the backboard, prompting a janitor to come out and sweep up the shards, directing censored complaints at the player in the process.” Classic.
My favorite old basketball game was Arch Rivals, which was pretty much NBA Jam before there was NBA Jam. It was neat because the game encouraged you to punch each other and you could even pull down the ref’s pants and do stupid things like that. Spent a lot of quarters on that one..
Check out the same videos for football and soccer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvfdqmwXrSE&feature=channel (Football)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h8xSITg_es&feature=channel (Soccer)
It comes flooding back…
No NBA street huh? Had alot of fun with those.
thats wild as i think about it i think i have owned a basketball ball every year since nba live 95 wow im gettin old