NBA Live 96
As with all games in the NBA Live series you can draft, trade and edit players. Play a full season, exhibition or just the playoffs. 96 includes 29 teams including the expansion Toronto and Vancouver teams.
NBA Live 96 is a sport developed by EA Canada, released 1 October 1995 on PlayStation, Game Boy, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
What NBA Live 96 is
NBA Live 96 is a sport game developed by EA Canada and released in 1995. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation, Game Boy, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
NBA Live 96 is the second installment of the NBA Live video game series, released by EA Sports in 1995. The PC and PlayStation covers feature Shaquille O'Neal of the Orlando Magic, while the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Genesis and European PlayStation box covers feature a photo of the tip-off to Game 1 of the 1995 NBA Finals. The PlayStation and PC versions are the first games in the series to feature 3D-rendered courts, allowing for multiple camera angles using EA's "Virtual Stadium" technology, which is also used for FIFA Soccer 96. On-court player graphics remain 2D sprites. It is also the first NBA Live game released for the PlayStation and the only NBA Live game for the…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the NBA series
NBA Live 96 is the 24th of 187 entries we hold in the NBA series. The next entry was NBA Live 96 in 1996. Its critic score of 78 is 5 points above the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is NBA 2K11 at 92.
How it was received
NBA Live 96 holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What it launched against
NBA Live 96 launched on 1 October 1995, within three weeks of Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Twisted Metal, Destruction Derby and Wipeout. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Twisted Metal, Destruction Derby, Wipeout.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for NBA Live 96 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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