Mashburn was particularly dominant at this in the 1st game against the Nuggets and their small forward Ryan Bowen. The post up is completely broken, you can start backing down your player from behind the 3 point line and just continue until you’re right under the rim as long as the player you’re using is stronger or bigger than the defender. Where Mashburn wouldn’t struggle, however, was the post up game. However, the further away I got from the rim, the more virtual Mashburn struggled with scoring consistently. A couple of dribble moves, push the control stick forward, and push the shoot button and it’s almost a guaranteed dunk. The first thing I noticed as I took control of Mashburn was that he could get to the rim at will. In fact the court in Live 2003 is the court from when they were in Charlotte despite clearly saying the team was in New Orleans at this point. Just a note: realism wasn’t exactly in the game makers interests back in the day. So as an experiment I decided to test just how dominant Mashburn was back then by playing a few games, and eventually a season, with him.
That player is Jamal Mashburn, specifically Jamal Mashburn in NBA Live 2003. There is one player that as a kid, I thought was incredible because in the video games he was. I still own my GameCube and yes, I still own NBA Live 20. My kid mind could never put together why some players in the video game were so much better than they were in real life. Of course, there was one thing I never quite understood. The Tracy McGrady years of the Magic are still some of my favorite basketball memories ever. I have fond memories of my Dad letting me stay up late and watch the Lakers and Spurs in the early 2000’s battle for Western Conference supremacy. Not only did my video game interests expand with age, my sports interests did as well. In this new generation it was in the form of NBA Live 2003 and NBA Live 2005. However, I still had to get my sports game fill. No game would capture my attention as long as 99 Live could.Īs I got older, the video games in my library expanded and moved into a new generation of consoles. I spent hours playing that game as all of the teams. But one day I got NBA Live 99 for the N64 and my short attention span was fully captured. I have no idea when I got the game, I have no memory of when I first played the game, I don’t even know if I had it in my library forever and just didn’t start playing it until later. While my brother spent his time playing with Spider-Man action figures and legos (Authors Note: I sucked at building legos) I spent mine pretending I was the star player on my favorite teams. I didn’t exactly know what was going on but I just knew I wanted the Jaguars and Magic to win games. Outside of video games, I was always into sports as a child, football and basketball in particular.
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