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NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC is an NBA Basketball video game released in 1999. It appeared first in arcades and then later in the year for the Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation. It was also released the following year on the Game Boy Color. NBA Showtime was produced by Midway and is really a continuation of NBA Jam and NBA Hangtime. In fact, game play is much like NBA Hangtime and features many other of the same characteristics.
While this game is nothing spectacular, if you like basketball games than this was a pretty good one for that era. It features a number of real players and allows up to four players to play. One of the potentially more disappointing aspects is that games only feature two players on each team as opposed to five. Entertaining for multiplayer I suppose but less interesting for single player.
Aside from the reduction in the number of players on a team, game play is mostly realistic. The exception is that when a player is “on fire”. This is accomplished by a player making three shots in a row. The “on fire” feature acts as a sort of power-up. The player who is “on fire” can easily make shots from almost anywhere, commit fouls without repercussions and also goal-tend without any penalties. This feature is a carry over from the previous NBA Hangtime.
The Dreamcast and Nintendo 64 versions are definitely the ones to chose from if you want to give this game a try. The Nintendo 64 one will be more expensive to acquire but it makes up for it in the lack of significant loading times. Of course, there is always emulation. The PlayStation version is not as good and while you might want to try the Game Boy Color version if you are a fan of that system, it’s really not much like the others.
Screen shots above are from the PlayStation version of the game.
