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

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!

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

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

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.

Glad to see Tecmo Super NBA Basketball getting some love!

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

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.

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. :)

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

Barkley has one redeeming factor: the gaiden game.

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.

My favorite video series on KZfaq.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Great video with professional arguments !

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.

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 :)

another great video with awesome content thanks man

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

Fantastic videos mate.

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.

I LOVE your videos! love your reading and voice :) very fun to watch and learn! keep going!

Cool game ! Nice video

Cool video dude❤

This was amazing

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.

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

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!

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.

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

nice episode

Great Video! you should also do a bottom 5 in these types of vids

That was a good one. Brought back some memories

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Nice shoot!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

looney tunes b-ball, very underrated love the mention

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

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

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.

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

Miss this game so much 👍

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.

Give and go was lit!!

Good take on the history of bball games

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

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

Spot on correct about ncaa basketball lol

Good game Action Fire

Tecmo, for sure.

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

Getting to hear boom-shaq-a-laka after a crazy badass dunk was all I wanted too do a Friday nights.

Never heard of “NBA Give & Go”. I’ll have to look into it!

I’ve played the NCAA Basketball game at the Walmart SNES demo quite a few times lol

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

I loved NBA hangtime. Still have it. never had or played NBA jam.

Great video. Man, haven't basketball games come a very long way?😏

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

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.

My most favorite Basketball Snes was NBA Jam and Tournament Edition that I played a lot on my childhood I was a kid 7 years old in 2008

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....

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

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.

Nice Shoot! 🤣 4:38

Me and my cousins and friends use to play for money on NBA JAM I still love that game.

NBA All Star Challenge was actually pretty fun to play with a friend.

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

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.

I really like NCAA Basketball a lot. Im so hooked to this game as a kid and up to now. So i really understand that you like it.

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!