Best ever NBA game intro

Ticket · Post #1 » by **Ticket** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 9:19 am

What's your favorite NBA game intro?

My vote goes to NBA Live 98. I remember watching the full intro every time I played the game.

The fast-paced cuts and soundtrack were seriously ahead of its time.

Get hyped!

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bonita_the_frog · Post #2 » by **bonita_the_frog** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 9:34 am

That is the most sexciting thing i've ever seen!

Lalouie · Post #3 » by **Lalouie** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 9:59 am

looks like the intro is better than the whole "fish that saved pittsburg" movie

FreeBird23 · Post #4 » by **FreeBird23** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 10:17 am

NBA live 2000 intro was fun too

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UcanUwill · Post #5 » by **UcanUwill** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 10:48 am

Not a fan of that 98 intro, how long is average shot, 0.2 seconds? Such editing legit gives me a headache.

Adelheid · Post #6 » by **Adelheid** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 11:13 am

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Ticket · Post #7 » by **Ticket** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 11:23 am

Adelheid wrote:

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Why they look like Wii avatars? :lol:

whitehops · Post #8 » by **whitehops** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 12:56 pm

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UcanUwill · Post #9 » by **UcanUwill** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 1:25 pm

Ticket wrote:
Adelheid wrote:

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Why they look like Wii avatars?

Because it is 20 year old game. It is funny to look back at this, because I remember how amazed at NBA LIVE 2005 graphics I was. It was a huge leap from 2004, everything was reworked from ground up, game looked completely different, you would never see such a leap in graphics in yearly video game release ever again.

But yeah I remember looking at these models thinking how realistic they looked, funny now, but their cyberface skins legit used assets from players' actual photos for the first time, so even in this resolution, you could see defying human characteristics on a lot of these models, where compered to just NBA LIVE 2004 and prior games, all the players were made with random player generator you would yourself use in game, so none of the players prior to 2005 actually looked like themselves. I remember booting NBA LIVE 2005, and Stojakovic having legit hair texture from how he looks in official NBA photos, it was mind blowing in 2005.

I still remember my NBA LIVE 2005 campaign and were I left it off, and now I think, we have players in the NBA, who weren't even born when I played that... I figured out modding at that time, it was very simple to export dynasty rosters to regular roster, you just needed to copy two files, I remember figuring it out myself. And then modding tools very simple, I was making FIBA mod for me and my friend, we used to play it all the time.

Mr. Perfect · Post #10 » by **Mr. Perfect** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 2:57 pm

NBA Live 2003 had the best intro track with Fabo. Man, just watched the video on YouTube and somehow I still remembered the lyrics.

https://youtu.be/hYKvMs6rN8I?si=dikO6KGVnbFrnVBx

Come to think of it, '03 might be the GOATed year between Street Vol 2 and Live 2003

MakeItSplash · Post #11 » by **MakeItSplash** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 7:54 pm

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JimmyPlopper · Post #12 » by **JimmyPlopper** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 7:58 pm

Ticket wrote:What's your favorite NBA game intro?

My vote goes to NBA Live 98. I remember watching the full intro every time I played the game.

The fast-paced cuts and soundtrack were seriously ahead of its time.

Get hyped!

Watch on YouTube

98 was the best by far. Great call. I loved that game

PistolPeteJR · Post #13 » by **PistolPeteJR** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 8:06 pm

Edit: nvm

bkkrh · Post #14 » by **bkkrh** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 8:52 pm

The 98 and 2000 ones were dope, no question. For me it's the 95 one on PC. Had played the game on the SNES at a friends place (only had a NES) and was blown away when I got it after we bought our first PC a few months later. The intro, pre game introduction and player stats with pictures made the SNES version look like it came out on an Atari.

I think what stands out the most is that you can really tell how much passion and love for the game is in these older games, compared to how soulless the modern ones feel.

Watch on YouTube

Ticket · Post #15 » by **Ticket** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 9:46 pm

bkkrh wrote:The 98 and 2000 ones were dope, no question. For me it's the 95 one on PC. Had played the game on the SNES at a friends place (only had a NES) and was blown away when I got it after we bought our first PC a few months later. The intro, pre game introduction and player stats with pictures made the SNES version look like it came out on an Atari.

I think what stands out the most is that you can really tell how much passion and love for the game is in these older games, compared to how soulless the modern ones feel.

Watch on YouTube

Great call, looks dope! Wish it was longer.

Calvin Klein · Post #16 » by **Calvin Klein** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 9:50 pm

going from playing double dribble and tecmo nba basketball to Live 95 was an experience. I couldn't believe I was actually watching proper NBA footage in my computer :lol:

ClutchCity713 · Post #17 » by **ClutchCity713** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 10:28 pm

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This one was fire.

azcatz11 · Post #18 » by **azcatz11** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 10:39 pm

Nba live 2001 was the biggest improvement and leap in video game history

JimmyPlopper · Post #19 » by **JimmyPlopper** » Sun Jul 6, 2025 11:12 pm

98 and 01 were my favorites and my most memorable. both are available as free abandonware at this point.

MrBigShot · Post #20 » by **MrBigShot** » Mon Jul 7, 2025 1:43 am

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This game was so far ahead of it's time. Free roam open world going around playing nba players in street ball