Every Super Nintendo Basketball Game - SNESdrunk

[@MrFed.]

Tecmo NBA is brilliant. It was the only game that had strategy. You could run plays, set screens, isolate and post up. Calling a play would give you a better chance of scoring rather than taking random shots. It was head and shoulders above NBA live and it was a tough challenge

[@jgmoneymechanics]

Definitely underrated tecmo nba i had it on snes and my brother had an genesis but he always played this on my system as a 7yo kid I didn’t fully understand all the strategy but i still loved the game but i owned almost all of these games at some point

[@teamhammerbros8466]

literally i just would find the fast break, or pass the ball until my player has an angle to the hoop. The ocassional hookshot in the post. There is no need for any play calling.

[@Spectre3724]

NCAA Basketball for the SNES was so huge for me. The center for Oklahoma State was the other Davison- that guy who could shoot 90% from midcourt.

[@jwhittington4675]

This game was so good

[@gumdeo]

That was Lark if I remember right. Good times.

[@rafetizer]

That Elmer Fudd laugh after he sinks the three is gold.

[@gillyac81]

I remember I would go to create a player on NBA Live 96' and I would type in Michael Jordan and all of his attributes would appear instantly from correct height and skills to even correct school he played for. The same would go for Magic, Bird, Barkley and a few others. It was awesome!

[@chrisward814]

Being a Bullets/Wizards fan I could make Wes Unseld

[@jamesroboyle]

NBA live 95’ was the shit

[@youtuber3328]

so you would have the anonymous and unanonymous versions of him being named roster player and michael jordan

[@jwhittington4675]

Exactly

[@jaywv1981]

Yeah I think EA got in trouble over that lol.

[@brasmussen81]

Jordan, Bird, Chamberlain, etc. are in Live 96 you just have to create them. Enter the name and the game will load the ratings, height, etc.

[@gfear24]

All the first round picks from that year are also unlockable in the creation suite.

[@Astrophro]

Yup, also Barkley, Jabbar, (Dr. J) Erving, M. Johnson. I put a heckof a lot of time in that game throughout my youth.

[@MoonLightWright]

Beat me to it! lol a whole year later :p

[@christianmontes4192]

i created all draft picks and latest trades of year 99 on nba live 98

[@elbitxo5945]

the moment we discovered it back then at my friend's home... man, that was magic. I remember using a Guinness World Records book to discover old great players to unlock (in 90's Spain, NBA wasn't that well known, we did know the USA92 Dream Team, but not the likes of Chamberlain, Abdul Jabbar...)

[@DoralSilverthorn]

Glad to see Tecmo Super NBA Basketball getting some love!

[@jasonlease1645]

Same here. Turn the game speed to fast and it is solid. I wish it kept track of individual stats like the football games tho.

[@stephenjohnson9632]

Jason Lease it did

[@j.t.thomas890]

Yea it did

[@JustinLeeper]

I did a 10-video series playing through the season mode as The Suns not long ago. It’s still fun.

[@docriley79]

Yeah that game was nice and I never see anyone talk about it. Plus it had jordan, and as we know that was a rarity l!

[@Cagon415]

Nba Jam TE was an institution. Playing as the fresh prince and jazzy jeff will never get old.

[@tdizzle7812]

Just make sure u keep his wifes name out ya mouth lol

[@AnthonyRiddle]

The court reflections in NBA All-star Challenge really were next level. That's about as realistic an effect as I've ever seen on SNES

[@alexvokoun9272]

Its nice to see Tecmo Super NBA Basketball get a little love as a pretty good game. It was probably the first SNES game I ever played and owned. Great video as always. You're an inspiration to Snes collectors. :)

[@SNESdrunk]

Thanks for watching Alex

[@kefkarothsephka7708]

agreed. my only gripe with the game is that i feel it shouldve reflected the 1992-93 season

[@AnObliviousCelticsFan]

@@kefkarothsephka7708 No Bird or Jordan No Magic. Hell nah.

[@kefkarothsephka7708]

@@AnObliviousCelticsFan jordan was still playing in 1992-93

[@Jebbreh]

@@AnObliviousCelticsFan Jordan was in the SNES version. Bird and Magic were there just not named.

[@sinistertrench1724]

Top 5 basketball SNES games according to SNESdrunk 5. 5:44 Looney Tunes Ball 4. 4:30 Dream Basketball: Dunk & Hoop 3. 2:14 NBA Live series 2. 6:43 NBA Give 'n Go 1. 7:13 NBA Jam

[@danreyes736]

These reviews are just what we need sometimes. Love the old games. Great memories.

[@TheCrewExpendable]

From twitter: "With Kevin Garnett's retirement. There are now no more active players that can be played on the Super Nintendo & the Sega Genesis or Saturn of NBA Jam." Well unless you count Hillary

[@SNESdrunk]

Haha!

[@harperlee4507]

TheCrewExpendable hh

[@floggyWM1]

how bout reptile, sub zero, scorpion, and raiden... they are still active

[@nonh1]

Prince Charles too.

[@Mrx2848]

@@nonh1 well, not anymore.

[@joshuaarceneaux3841]

I remember this game called “Run & Gun” at the arcades...Now that game was ahead of its time

[@Mr802VT]

dude Run & Gun ate so many of my quarters

[@joshuaarceneaux3841]

John Fenton 😂😂😂😂 #classic

[@ThatBo03]

NBA Give N' Go was pretty much the same thing. Fun game

[@mannysmallsabovegeniuspage5092]

Classic!!!!... hands down the best game without being on a console

[@jwhittington4675]

This was an amazing game in arcades

[@goodguyty]

Tecmo Basketball was a good game that got overshadowed by Tecmo Bowl. It was great that it was mentioned.

[@gluserty]

My favorites for basketball here are "Tecmo Super NBA Basketball", "NBA Jam T.E.", "NBA Live '95", and "NCAA Basketball". I vaguely remember playing that Magic Johnson game, and it's a real floater, as is the Bill Laimbeer one.

[@Projectwolfie21]

Barkley has one redeeming factor: the gaiden game.

[@cloficc7234]

Looney Tunes B-Ball is great! Still one of my favorite SNES games period.

[@Celicagame13]

Great multiplayer game

[@iFupTrolls]

NBA Live series, specially '95, got me hooked. The shots animation on fastbreak, dunk or layup, were amazing for their time.

[@BuChan89]

nice video, I was waiting for Tecmo Super Basketball to come up! discovered it two years ago when I picked it up for $1, solid title.

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

I remember Davidson from that NCAA game! We had a house rule with that game, no one was allowed to be UNC because he was so overpowered that anyone playing against that team had no chance. Also, LOL at "Some of these phrases are still used today." Yeah, by the guy that did the commentary for that game, he works for ESPN.

[@TravJam317]

As a UNC guy, I'd boycott playing in your home, because I wouldn't play as anyone else.

[@gumdeo]

What about OSU, Lark was unstoppable.

[@CyrusBluebird]

Looney Toons B-ball comment: Elmer was a hunter, so I'm not surprised he knows trajectory shots.

[@pentiumradeon]

"In Hanzo voice*: "Simple geometry" HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

[@Jay-cn3js]

Elmer was a hunter... What's he now?

[@thetramp123]

Dudes a sharp shooter.

[@beedabop5797]

@@Jay-cn3jsMr. Technical 🤓

[@MikeHL78]

Tecmo Super NBA Basketball is a hell of a lot of fun, even today. My stock-in-trade in that game is to select the Phoenix Suns, start Kevin Johnson, Jeff Hornacek, Dan Majerle, Cedric Ceballos and Tom Chambers and try to run the other team off the court :)

[@SNESdrunk]

Dan Majerle was so underappreciated

[@ernestboykin3rd706]

Tecmo Nba basketball was my game on the Nintendo and Sega along with Tecmo Super Bowl

[@Rustoization]

My favorite video series on KZbin.

[@bluejay6956]

My first NBA Jam in the age of 10 really bring back memories of playing San Antonio Spurs; Sean Elliott and David Robinson are my all-time pros.

[@platinummc01]

Hahaha...Davidson could literally shoot from the half court logo and never ever miss! Loved it! NCAA Basketball was lots of fun.

[@8thaccount535]

Outside of NBA Jam, Bulls vs Blazers, Bill Laimbeer, and Tecmo were my favorites.

[@KrazzyKlown]

My favorite was NBA Hangtime. Not because you could play as santa or the wolf man, no. Because you could just run around shoving people to the ground and the ref would never call foul.

[@dy120481]

Give And Go is a port of an arcade game called Run And Gun. RAG didn't have NBA licensure, so they got NBA approval and changed the name to sound less violent. Great game.

[@imyanigmw]

That was my shit, that game should've been updated on a yearly basis like the Live series

[@Jburneyjr]

dy120481 I LOVED that arcade game. I don't remember ever losing in that game.

[@_cmwapg6774]

Run & Gun was a great arcade game. Give & Go was a nice port of that same game to the SNES. One of the best basketball games ever.

[@andrejefferson7529]

I spent 50 dollars worth of quarters on Run and Gun. That was the game

[@rickdavis32]

@@Jburneyjr ive never seen a home port of it. I read in a gamer mag that had famicom reviews that Dream felt similar to it and assumed it was a sort of port.

[@LateNightRetro]

People played basketball games that weren't NBA Jam? ...huh didn't know.

[@24magiccarrot]

Yes NBA Jam tournament edition

[@justintaylor6988]

I played NBA hangtime on my super Nintendo religiously against my brother, we never had jam.

[@Amp5150]

my brothers and I loved 7:54 NCAA

[@AveMcree]

NBA give and go was the game I played on snes.

[@thomastripp9002]

I did and still do...Not just NBA Jam and NBA Jam TE, I also play NCAA Basketball, Tecmo Super NBA Basketball, NBA Give N Go and NBA Lives 95-98

[@buffaloruffian]

looney tunes b-ball, very underrated love the mention

[@CaptainSlapaDome]

Ah man, I loved Give n Go. Thanks for making this vid SNESDrunk!

[@thomastripp9002]

What I was finally looking for!!!! LOL!!! But, as a big basketball fan who has owned the SNES since 1992, this video will help me recommend some people who are looking for good basketball games for the SNES!!! Excellent informative video, +SNES drunk. My personal basketball favorites are: NBA Give N' Go, NBA Live series (mainly '95 and '96), NBA Jam series, NCAA Basketball, Tecmo Super NBA Basketball, Bulls vs. Blazers and NBA All-Star Challenge.

[@SNESdrunk]

Thanks for watching man

[@deemz312]

THANK YOU for mentioning the player Davison in NCAA Basketball. Back in the day we had a rule you couldnt use UNC because of him.

[@elchapeau]

Imagine asking your parents for NBA All Star challenge, and it's the one game you get all year, only to find out it's just horse.

[@ThePrufessa]

You absolutely saved the best for last. Besides nba jam of course. Tecmo basketball got tons of run on our block. Craig Hodges was automatic from three point line

[@justkeating8399]

Thank you so much for doing what you do. I have one of those retro clone SNES mini systems (wife bought it by mistake thinking she was getting me the actual SNES mini). However, I was really pleasantly surprised when I got it and found out that it has EVERY NES and SNES game on it and the emulations are just like the original and has original-like controllers. This particular clone system is awesome, so much better than Nintendo's version. So I really appreciate you reviewing these games so I know which games to check out (and subsequently which ones to avoid).

[@duffman18]

I mean, you CAN add every snes game to the snes mini. It's possible, and people have done it. It's stupidly easy to do too.

[@vxcvxmcrposfdsdfulpdfg]

I fuckin' doubt that it emulates as well as you claim it does.

[@doctorhino8736]

NBA Showdown was my favorite back then. It felt the most like an arcade 5 on 5 while still having some strategy to it. Sure it was slow as hell but that came with the territory of snes sports games.

[@jre-xf6uz]

College Slam with juice mode and all the powers up is amazing. Missouri SG is amazing!

[@Genethagenius]

Finally, someone else that had and played NCAA Basketball on the SNES! I loved that game! But NBA Jam: Tournament Edition was the SNES basketball game me & my friends played to death.

[@michaelbronco1023]

I Loved that game and had my buddy play it a couple years ago, he loved it as well.

[@YTOW85]

College Slam, NBA Jam TE, and Live 96 my top 3 faves

[@RealTalkWithJD]

This comment is 4 years late but thanks you for giving NBA Give 'N Go it's respect. Underrated overachiever based off an Arcade cabinet that did it a little better. This was my favorite SNES Basketball game without a doubt.

[@grgmj1980]

Live 96 has a code for a lot of nba legends. Including Jordan and Barkley.

[@youtuber3328]

hopefully I will get online play this and use kareem abdul-jabbar and/or even better wilt chamberlain and/or bill russell

[@Cuddyscott84]

Loved Barkley shut up n jam as a kid. Hours n hours playing that game.

[@nightlifebartenders]

NBA Jam TE was the only one played. Glad to see it was the best on your list.

[@hdrock4533]

Super Tecmo Basketball is severely underrated! I also loved the NCAA game with the blue background. I killed it with Oklahoma State, as they had a player who had a 75% 3 point shooting ability.

[@smoothALOE]

There was one NBA Live game where you could add Jordan and Barkley and some of the top Rookies at the time in the Create Player Mode. I think it was ‘96. That would be the one I’d recommend, since it has that cool feature.

[@henryhoodrich4432]

This brings back so many memories "nba jam" I used to play with air dog

[@Bart848]

Tecmo super nba basketball was a awesome basketball game and still have today Definitely a childhood favorite of mine

[@arcadeperfectreviews2653]

I waited for Tecmo super NBA basketball.. I was not disappointed

[@LegendoftheDragonSword]

Still playing NBA Live '96 on SNES in 2020! Yep, the easy create-a-player and trades were an awesome addition! Years back I rounded out all the rosters with only players that played for those teams along with the best of my favorite created legends. It was an undertaking, but it was well worth it. The keep scores close option allows for some nail-biters and there's an option to play every team once for a complete season. It's a great game. Tecmo NBA Basketballl (SNES) is solid too, but beware the Sega Genesis version as it does not save trades.

[@TortureVisionTV]

9:24 The Chicago Pops are my favorite breakfast AND Bball team.

[@jba2048]

I remember sleepovers playing bill laimbeer's combat basketball for hours. I don't know if we really liked the game or just didn't have anything else to play.

[@CRXJDM88]

Tecmo super nba is the best nba game for super nes sides NBA Jam of course love that game to death definitely a great pick up game

[@Krobscorner2006]

If you actually look at the release date of college slam, and see the rosters, you'll notice it's based off of the 95-96 season. Connecticut and Georgetown have specifically badass guards....ray Allen and Allen Iverson. Those are real players of the time.

[@southbeachtalent]

Yup! I played as Georgetown all the time. The center looked like Othella Harrington and the 4 looked like Jerome Williams! He also didn't mention that you were able to go in and name your players. College Slam was a cool game

[@SamtheBravesFan]

I got Give and Go off eBay a couple of weeks ago. It's really good for what it is. I still haven't gotten the hang of whatever defense there is, but I was shooting threes with Reggie Miller all day long.

[@spittingfire420]

I remember playing NBA JAMS on the 64 with 4 players at my friends house back in the day.......with created players of course!! Can't tell you how many hours we put into that game

[@MikeP]

Awesome video, my fav are Tecmo Super NBA basketball, NBA Live 95 and NBA Jam TE!

[@07Hubbs]

I always played the wacky mode in College Slam. It was a ton of fun. Except for the powerup where your hoop disappears.

[@gheuk984]

NBA GIve n Go...many hours of my youth. Loved that game.

[@TGTK-FreeSpeech-]

My brothers and I still play NBA Jam to this very day when we get the chance. Aside from Super Mario World, it's our go-to multiplayer game on the SNES.

[@avace917]

I guess I didn't see this before. You're description of NBA Showdown was inaccurate. Every NBA team was present and you could play a full season. Also Lakers VS Celtics was on PC before Genesis. You should look up the arcade game by Konami called Run And Gun. That's what Give And Go is based on.

[@LeVi1583]

Techmo was tge best

[@Kashmir23]

The Tecmo didn’t make top 5? That’s ludicrous!!!!

[@TravJam317]

Should've been subbed for the Super Famicon game.

[@FantasyfootballRedd13]

DUDEEEE I forgot all about Tecmo Basketball!! I loved using the Hornets and playing a season. Now I want to buy that game again haha

[@pt29999]

Tecmo Super NBA Basketball should be #1 IMO. NBA Jam was fun for a few hours but not much depth

[@ianEFF]

I have always felt that the 16-bit NBA Live games were kind of a secret gem. It was impressive how much you could do with 3 buttons (I played 96 on Genesis). The isometric view made it easy to see everything that was happening on screen, and the way players react to contact with each other created a surprisingly effective mechanic that allowed you to set up picks, shot fake and do low-post work. You can also control your speed a lot more fluidly than in other games from this era. It was cool that you could call out plays in the moment, and choose your go-to offensive sets ahead of time. By holding the pass button you could hand the ball off to the computer, who then runs the point. This allows you to do stuff like set off ball screens, run backdoor cuts and set up pistol action plays. What other NBA games from that era go this deep in playmaking? In the midst of all of these realistic features, you could also turn on slow motion dunks, and hard fouls would send players flying comically off screen. The animations were well done and occasionally players would bust out hook shots, finger rolls, and impossible 360 dunks. I still play this game sometimes and it always surprises me how close it got to real basketball considering the limitations of these systems. Compared to Live, some of these other games play more like Streets of Rage-style beat-em-ups.

[@Drift4Drifters]

If you like those NBA Live games and have a Genesis near you, try Coach K Basketball. Its the same gameplay, but with NCAA teams, and its a quite well done. Doesn´t have a bunch of customization like Live 96, but the gameplay is top notch, specially with universitary defensive rules, its much harder to score compared to NBA.

[@Jebbreh]

It's good seeing someone give Tecmo some love. It is needed.

[@tommykesh]

another great video with awesome content thanks man

[@SNESdrunk]

Thanks for watching

[@jonathanturbide2232]

Tecmo is the best NBA game on snes in my opinion, I spent hundreds of hours on that gem as a kid! 😀👌

[@pt29999]

Same here, I played the NES version a ton too before i got a SNES

[@dionysus122]

I loved NBA Live 95 as a kid. But of course, NBA Jam TE was amazing too. Great video.

[@grgmj1980]

96 has all the legends with a simple code. The best nba live in my book

[@splitsteve9689]

Great video with professional arguments !

[@oleschoolgamers]

Well done buddy, I got some ideas for the next SNES tournament we got going, thanks!

[@sublime90]

super tecmo nba was the best snes basketball game hands down

[@4dojo]

Im glad you mentioned College Slam. I though i was the only one who played that game.

[@chrispineo1979]

NBA Live 96 had a create a player mode. If you entered a name like Jordan or Bird it would create the player with the right look, number and stats. 95 and 96 did a stat track trick. It only tracked the stats of your team. They had generic stats for the players on other teams (the iconic players would be among the league leaders in the appropriate categories) that allowed you to try to be among the "league leaders". Great memories of 95 and 96.

[@goldencommon2266]

I like seeing NCAA Basketball get some praise, it was one of the first SNES games I had. There were some other players who almost never missed a shot, I want to say McManus on... Tennessee? The red/yellow/green passing icons were very intuitive too.

[@BreakingNVain]

I fucking HATE McManus!!

[@desmooth7284]

They didn't have the Big Ten on the game. Michigan was one of the best teams at that time.

[@Tricolorrr533]

5:21 99% of sport related words in the Japanese language are English words with a Japanese pronunciation. Here A is Hoorudo (hold), B is Pasu (pass). You just gotta learn katakana, it's just 48 characters

[@mattmann06]

NBA Hangtime, NBA Jam, NBA Give and GO. where my fav 90s games

[@bustosricky]

26 years have past at least. Every now and then I remember Davison. Ahh the memories.

[@christophermoody6840]

@6:54 This game is forgotten about because the same company Konami had already released this exact game in the Arcade a good 2 or 3 years earlier and it was called Run -n- Gun basketball. Run-and-Gun didnt have an NBA License and used generic teams but that didnt matter back then... it was fun so people played it. By the time Give-n-Go came out for home systems with an NBA license... people had moved on because NBA live was newer and fresher and we'd already played the better version of the same game in the Arcade. A little chronological context from a newly old dude. I was 11 years old when SNES came out now I'm early forties.

[@RANInkTV]

Why did All Star Challenge court look so good for that era...? I loved Give N' Go. It's the first game I remember being able to switch a dunk to a crafty layup

[@KamikazeXero]

Great video, so much nostalgia for me here. I grew up on a lot of the early 90's sports games like NHL 94, and of course Tecmo Super Bowl and even some of the bad ones like NBA All-Star Challenge (it was all I had to play for a while!) I even got one of my childhood friends into sports games just by showing him NBA Jam, and he hated sports games before that. Funny you mentioned Tom Gugliotta during the NBA Live part, I used to have fun making custom teams of 15 Gugliottas and pitting them against NBA teams...they didn't fare well. I still pick up Tecmo NBA and NBA Jam from time to time, I may have to revisit some of these!

[@wiscounter]

Eugene Chee I learned about Looney Toons basketball from SNES Drunk videos. The game is awesome! I wish I had known about it as a kid. I sing "Kill the wabbit!!!" every time I use Fudd's defense power, because he dons that horned opera helmet and shoots lightning. LOL

[@Klugioh]

Nice video! Great to see all of the basketball games released for good old SNES. When I was a kid I was a huge basketball fan. So I own three of those games myself. Well kind of. I own NBA Jam TE, Give‘N‘Go and a game not featured in this list. I don’t know if it was already mentioned in the comments somewhere but there was also World League Basketball. It's the NCAA game but without licenses. I guess the publisher wasn’t convinced NCAA teams would sell properly outside the US. So for the international market they made up teams around the globe like Warsaw Lynx, Berlin Bears or the New York Apples. It took a while but eventually I would really enjoy playing it. Japanese market got yet another version of the NCAA game. A really strange one. called Super Dunk something. Did you ever hear of the Chicago Bills and their Superstar Jordun? No!? But you must have heard of Boston Celleries legend Bard!

[@gringobronx7670]

Bulls vs blazers was hot...

[@celebwrestling]

Good take on the history of bball games

[@DJEkalFFue]

Tecmo, for sure.

[@brandynhenry7107]

Spot on correct about ncaa basketball lol

[@jaybeeo1530]

NCAA basketball and NBA hangtime gets my vote. And that Davison guy haha never missed no matter where you were on the court

[@adv1s588]

hey snesdrunk, theres actually a game you missed in the jpn slam dunk series called slam dunk sd heat up. no qte and actually has live gameplay. fun, check it out!

[@simpdown1404]

Tecmo Basketball was the best game for SNES

[@danielwood82]

I also grew up playing a ton of NCAA Basketball. I always played as Texas and I still remember the fake names of several of the players all these years later.

[@natedogg5641]

Loved finding the players who couldn't miss from 3. Always was disappointed that it lacked the Big Ten.

[@BreakingNVain]

Houlihan!

[@josephguy-bernard7688]

Infoman

[@frankernest3712]

College Slam was one of my first PlayStation games. I legit had fun playing this game

[@foxsky4336]

Good game Action Fire

[@titowrestling]

Disagree strongly on your College Slam hatred. It’s the best SNES basketball game because it runs on the NBA Jam TE engine but allows you to customize each team’s player names and stats. I poured hours into building teams full of NCAA legends and battling through the Tournaments. Hours of fun. It was a great progression from NBA Jam TE.

[@meladgoat]

hey bro, i love all your videos. i wanted to make a channel doing old school game reviews as well, i was wondering what programs and screen recorders you use to make these videos? thanks

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

Live 95 was life changing for me.....that game was amazing. I played it on the Genesis, but it was unreal with a full season, all teams, playoffs......that was the shit I also didnt realize that Lakers vs Celtics and NBA Playoffs never came out for SNES, but only Genesis. I was gonna ask if you missed it but then saw it was only a Genesis release. NCAA Basketball is a personal favorite of mine to....that was my first college hoops game with a season and the tournament. Took my Razorbacks to the title....

[@rickbeltran7365]

That was a good one. Brought back some memories

[@dftns19]

Davison was unstoppable in NCAA basketball!

[@johnrosie9769]

That sneaker screeching sound pulls you in..I also turn off the fouls and it becomes battle basketball live 95 ;:)