NBA Live 99
NBA Live 99 is EA Sports' NBA release for the 1998–99 NBA season. Some of the major additions in Live 99 include Practice Mode and multi-season play featuring player development between seasons. Although it…
NBA Live 99 is a simulator developed by EA Canada, released 31 October 1998 on Nintendo 64, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What NBA Live 99 is
NBA Live 99 is a simulator game developed by EA Canada and released in 1998. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Nintendo 64, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
NBA Live 99 is EA Sports' NBA release for the 1998–99 NBA season. Some of the major additions in Live 99 include Practice Mode and multi-season play featuring player development between seasons. Although it did not feature free agency or generated rookies, it would turn out to be the forerunner to Franchise Mode. Live 99 shipped with 1997-98 season rosters due to the NBA lockout of 1998–99 putting a hold on player movements and rookie signings during the summer of 1998.
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 99 is the 40th of 187 entries we hold in the NBA series. It arrived 6 months after Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside. The next entry was NBA Jam 99 in 1998.
What it launched against
NBA Live 99 launched on 31 October 1998, within three weeks of Half-Life, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and The House of the Dead 2.
Released around the same time: Half-Life, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, The House of the Dead 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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