Detailed player numbers were also visible. Details such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s goggles are clearly visible, and Michael Jordan’s “Air Reverse Layup” is animated with very high accuracy. The gamewas one of the first to feature an NBA license, containing both real NBA teams and player likenesses and signature moves. This gamewas 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 1991 for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis. The major new feature for this year was an evolution of the freestyle superstars system.he predecessor of the NBA Live series was the NBA PLAYOFFS series, which featured Lakers vs. NBA Live 07 was released for the Playstation 2, Xbox, PC, Playstation Portable, and the Xbox360.