What’s the greatest basketball video game of all time?

Mean_Streets · Post #2 » by **Mean_Streets** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 5:49 pm

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UcanUwill · Post #3 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 5:50 pm

People loved 2k11 at a time, but even with sliders way up it was incredibly hard to draw any foul, i hated that. Thats the only game i played out of that list.

Effigy · Post #4 » by **Effigy** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 5:55 pm

I went with Street. 2k1 was insane for it's time though, though i did think it got better in 2k2 and 2k3.

Mean_Streets · Post #5 » by **Mean_Streets** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 6:07 pm

Effigy wrote:I went with Street. 2k1 was insane for it's time though, though i did think it got better in 2k2 and 2k3.

2k1 has the highest critic rating of any basketball video game on metacritic for what its worth. Their ratings go back over 25 years.

2k11 pretty much put NBA Live out of business though. That to me is the best NBA 2k game ever.

NBA Street Vol 2 was insanely good. Spent lots of hours on that game.

TwitterFingers · Post #6 » by **TwitterFingers** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 6:23 pm

Double Dribble

https://youtu.be/gw7poSD0adg?si=jQvcK4GIKoD40y3I

zzaj · Post #7 » by **zzaj** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 6:26 pm

What, no love for Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball?!

I effing loved that game.

dhsilv2 · Post #8 » by **dhsilv2** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 6:29 pm

Went with NBA Jam TE, but I did think NBA Hang Time really added nicely to that style

3ddman23 · Post #9 » by **3ddman23** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 6:31 pm

Nba street vol 2 had everything in a choke hold. Everyone I knew was playing that game even if they didn't like basketball or sports.

Yallbecrazy · Post #10 » by **Yallbecrazy** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 6:36 pm

NBA Live 95 basically allowed any center to just dribble it full court and dunk it. Had a cool golf Easter egg.

UcanUwill · Post #11 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 6:37 pm

TwitterFingers wrote:Double Dribble

https://youtu.be/gw7poSD0adg?si=jQvcK4GIKoD40y3I

zzaj wrote:What, no love for Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball?!

I effing loved that game.

I remember playing some generic unlicensed basketball game on Sega Genesis, and loving it as a kid. the big feature was that you could choose your uni colors from like 4 variants. I saw it on youtube not too long ago, tried to find it now, but I cant do it now. I know to most these games is a joke from ancient times, but to people like me, it was a reality.

UcanUwill · Post #12 » by **UcanUwill** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 6:42 pm

Yallbecrazy wrote:NBA Live 95 basically allowed any center to just dribble it full court and dunk it. Had a cool golf Easter egg.

All these sports games till this day have had game breaking exploits. Thats why I liked FIFA the most out of modern games, I haven't played in a while, but I do nor remember it having exploits at this point, where with NBA 2k, I still play that terrible 2k24 version, but I basically need to to play with gentements rules against the CPU, because in reality, size trumps everything in that game, any stiff will be lock down defender for you as long as he is long, if I wanted to just win I would just play 5 seven footers, thats just **** reality of those games.

70sFan · Post #13 » by **70sFan** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 7:27 pm

NBA 2K12 with Ultimate Base Mode and it's not close.

RoundMoundOfRebound · Post #14 » by **RoundMoundOfRebound** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 7:33 pm

The4thHorseman · Post #15 » by **The4thHorseman** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 7:38 pm

RoundMoundOfRebound wrote:

and it's not even close. Once you advanced so far, you got 2 purple guys playing each other!!!

TrentTuckerRule · Post #16 » by **TrentTuckerRule** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 7:40 pm

Watch on YouTube

SlimShady83 · Post #17 » by **SlimShady83** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 7:45 pm

NBA Jam
NBA Live

bonita_the_frog · Post #18 » by **bonita_the_frog** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 7:58 pm

Are there any video game consoles that don't make a fan sound (as in, the air sound that comes from it)?
I'll buy a console but only if its got no fan sound coming out of it.
I was hoping ps2 has no fan sound, because that has nba2k12 at least, so I'd buy that.
But turns out ps2 has a fan sound according to google, so are there any consoles that don't?

zzaj · Post #19 » by **zzaj** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 8:02 pm

UcanUwill wrote:
TwitterFingers wrote:Double Dribble

https://youtu.be/gw7poSD0adg?si=jQvcK4GIKoD40y3I

zzaj wrote:What, no love for Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball?!

I effing loved that game.

I remember playing some generic unlicensed basketball game on Sega Genesis, and loving it as a kid. the big feature was that you could choose your uni colors from like 4 variants. I saw it on youtube not too long ago, tried to find it now, but I cant do it now. I know to most these games is a joke from ancient times, but to people like me, it was a reality.

BLCB was very much licensed for SNES. And was super fun in a non-reality way:

Watch on YouTube

PRguy23 · Post #20 » by **PRguy23** » Fri Oct 3, 2025 8:05 pm

dhsilv2 wrote:Went with NBA Jam TE, but I did think NBA Hang Time really added nicely to that style

I also enjoyed hang time more. Recently I found put hang time was just the continuation of nba jam. The same guys made it, the name change had something to do with licensing of the name nba jam which was the name of the all star weekends nba jam sessions. The league asked them not to use the name and they switched it to hang time.