NBA Live 96 featured a new game mode, “Create a Player”, which, as the name suggests, allows people to create their own player in the game. NBA Live 95 was the first of the series to be released and appeared in the Sega Console SNES and Genesis. The last “generation” game to be released prior to the NBA Live series was NBA Showdown which was released in 1994
These two releases were the first to have their name come from the teams that made it to the finals on the year of release. The 19 releases bore the title “Bulls vs Lakers” and “Bulls vs Blazers”, respectively.
Ten teams were featured in the game, including both All-Star teams but excluding 8 other teams that qualified for the playoffs that season. In 1991 the game was launched on other consoles like the Sega Genesis. NBA Live has initially named NBA playoffs and was launched in 1989 to MS DOS-compatible PCs with the title Celtics vs. As the trademark of the NBA Live series the featured graphic on the retail box is Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards. NBA Live 08 was also released for older consoles such as the Playstation2 and PlayStation Portable and, of course, it was also released for the PC. The game was released on all three new-generation consoles, the Playstation3, the Xbox 360, and the Nintendo Wii.
