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{{stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is [[Electronic Arts]]' officially licensed basketball game for 1995, and a successor to ''[[NBA Showdown '94]]''. It was released for the [[Sega Mega Drive]] in late 1994. It is the first game to adopt the "NBA Live" moniker, which continues in EA's basketball products to this day.
 
{{stub}}'''''{{PAGENAME}}''''' is [[Electronic Arts]]' officially licensed basketball game for 1995, and a successor to ''[[NBA Showdown '94]]''. It was released for the [[Sega Mega Drive]] in late 1994. It is the first game to adopt the "NBA Live" moniker, which continues in EA's basketball products to this day.

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NBA Live 95
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer:
Peripherals supported: 4 Way Play
Genre: Sports

















Number of players: 1-4
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
US 		$59.9559.95[2] 738101
Videogame Rating Council: GA
Sega Mega Drive
EU 		E311SMXI
ELSPA: 3+ OK
Sega Mega Drive
PT
Sega Mega Drive
UK 		£44.9944.99[3] E311SMXI
ELSPA: 3+ OK
Sega Mega Drive
AU
OFLC: G
Sega Mega Drive
BR 		046900
Tectoy: Todas as Idades
Sega Mega Drive
KR 		GM95002JT
Non-Sega versions
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NBA Live 95 is Electronic Arts' officially licensed basketball game for 1995, and a successor to NBA Showdown '94. It was released for the Sega Mega Drive in late 1994. It is the first game to adopt the "NBA Live" moniker, which continues in EA's basketball products to this day.

Gameplay

Unlike EA's Madden franchise which largely iterated on the same engine year-on-year, NBA Live 95 is an entirely different basketball game to its predecessor (written by a different team at Hitmen Productions), and is now played from an isometric perspective, similar to FIFA International Soccer and its successors.

Licensing issues mean that Charles Barkley is replaced with a stand-in player; "A.C. Green".

Versions

As with the majority of EA console sports titles, the Mega Drive was the designated target platform for NBA Live 95 during development, before being ported to the Super NES. Primarily the difference between the two versions lies in screen resolution; the Mega Drive using the full 320x224 resolution available, while the SNES opting for 256x224. While menus and the HUD were adapted for the lower resolution of the SNES, the court and players were not, meaning less is viewable on screen and the gameplay is noticeably more "stretched" than its Mega Drive counterpart.

The Super NES version also misses some elements such as the star indicating which player is being controlled, and team members running onto the court as their names are listed at the beginning of the game. The scenery is also slightly more animated in the Mega Drive version.

Magazine articles

Main article: NBA Live 95/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Television advertisements

Print advertisements

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Print advert in EGM² (US) #5: "November 1994" (1994-1x-xx)
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Print advert in Computer & Video Games (UK) #157: "December 1994" (1994-11-15)
also published in:
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Print advert in CD Consoles (FR) #3: "Janvier 1995" (199x-xx-xx)
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Print advert in Joypad (FR) #36: "Novembre 1994" (1994-1x-xx)
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Print advert in MAN!AC (DE) #1995-02: "02/95" (1995-01-11)
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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
90 [6]
77 №27, p62/63
83 [7]
69 [8]
83 №40, p54/55
90 [9]
Sega Mega Drive
 82
Based on
6 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
60
[10]
Alaab Alcomputtar (SA)
85
[11]
Cool Gamer (RU)
70
[12]
Game Players (US)
75
[13]
Game Players (US) NTSC-U
89
[2]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
75
[14]
Gamestar (AU)
74
[15]
Joypad (FR) PAL
90
[16]
LeveL (CZ)
80
[17]
MAN!AC (DE) PAL
85
[18]
Mega (UK) PAL
77
[3]
Mega Fun (DE) PAL
88
[19]
Megazin (SI)
82
[20]
Player One (FR)
83
[21]
Play Time (DE) PAL
88
[22]
Sega Magazin (DE)
89
[23]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
69
[8]
Sega Pro (UK) PAL
83
[24]
Sega Opisaniy i sekretov (RU)
75
[25]
Sega Opisaniy i sekretov (RU)
82
[26]
Todo Sega (ES)
93
[27]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
83
[28]
Video Games (DE) PAL
82
[29]
VideoGames (US)
90
[9]
Sega Mega Drive
 81
Based on
24 reviews

NBA Live 95

Mega Drive, US
NBALive95 MD US Box.jpg
Cover
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Cart
NBA Live 95 MD US Manual.pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, EU
NBALive95 MD EU Box.jpg
Cover
NBALive95 MD US Cart.jpg
Cart
NBALive95 MD EU pcb.jpg
PCB
Mega Drive, PT
NBALive95 MD PT cover.jpg
Cover
Mega Drive, AU
NBALive95 MD AU cover.jpg
Cover
Mega Drive, BR
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Cover
Mega Drive, KR
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Cover
NBALive95 MD KR Cart.jpg
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 66018abc
MD5 c997ae89f3417f5b3e702c84cf1275c4
SHA-1 f86bc9601751ac94119ab2f3ecce2029d5678f01
2MB 1994-10 Cartridge (US/EU)
Sega Mega Drive
 ?
CRC32 779c1244
MD5 dbe3cb8f486debb2efb94b51ab33ae58
SHA-1 115c2e8cfa6bc45767ba47efc00aede424a6de66
2MB 1994-10 Cartridge (KR)

References

  1. ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 12
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 2 February 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 66
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mega, "December 1994" (UK; 1994-11-30), page 62
  4. ↑ Sega Visions, "December/January 1994/1995" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 47
  5. ↑ Computer & Video Games, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-12-15), page 10
  6. ↑ Joypad, "Novembre 1994" (FR; 1994-1x-xx), page 126/127 (126)
  7. ↑ Player One, "Novembre 1994" (FR; 1994-1x-xx), page 147 (143)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sega Power, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-11-17), page 55
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 VideoGames, "December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 139
  10. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 151
  11. ↑ Alaab Alcomputtar, "" (SA; 1995-06-xx), page 80
  12. ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 145
  13. ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 12 December 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 60
  14. ↑ GamePro, "January 1995" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 134
  15. ↑ Gamestar, "February 1995" (AU; 1995-xx-xx), page 72
  16. ↑ Joypad, "Novembre 1994" (FR; 1994-1x-xx), page 126
  17. ↑ LeveL, "Duben 1995" (CZ; 1995-04-20), page 35
  18. ↑ MAN!AC, "11/94" (DE; 1994-10-12), page 68
  19. ↑ Mega Fun, "11/94" (DE; 1994-10-19), page 66
  20. ↑ Megazin, "Letnik 3, Številka 3, Marec 1995" (SI; 1995-xx-xx), page 37
  21. ↑ Player One, "Novembre 1994" (FR; 1994-1x-xx), page 147
  22. ↑ Play Time, "1/95" (DE; 1994-12-07), page 110
  23. ↑ Sega Magazin, "Dezember 1994" (DE; 1994-11-17), page 74
  24. ↑ Sega Pro, "January 1995" (UK; 1994-12-01), page 54
  25. ↑ Sega Opisaniy i sekretov, "14000 Opisaniy i sekretov" (RU; 2003-03-11), page 125
  26. ↑ Sega Opisaniy i sekretov, "14000 Opisaniy i sekretov" (RU; 2003-03-11), page 128
  27. ↑ Todo Sega, "Noviembre 1994" (ES; 1994-1x-xx), page 80
  28. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 179
  29. ↑ Video Games, "12/94" (DE; 1994-11-23), page 46



Electronic Arts sports games for Sega systems
American Football
John Madden Football (1990) | John Madden Football '92 (1991) | John Madden Football '93 (1992) | John Madden Football: Championship Edition (1992) | Mutant League Football (1993) | Madden NFL '94 (1993) | Bill Walsh College Football (1993) | Bill Walsh College Football '95 (1994) | Madden NFL '95 (1994) | Madden NFL 96 (1995) | College Football USA 96 (1995) | Madden NFL 97 (Mega Drive) (1996) | Madden NFL 97 (Saturn) (1996) | College Football USA 97 (1996) | Madden NFL 98 (Mega Drive) (1997) | Madden NFL 98 (Saturn) (1997)
Baseball
Tony La Russa Baseball (1993) | MLBPA Baseball (1994) | La Russa Baseball 95 (1994) | Triple Play 96 (1995) | Triple Play: Gold Edition (1996)
Basketball
Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs (1990) | Bulls vs Lakers and the NBA Playoffs (1991) | Jordan vs Bird (1992) | Team USA Basketball (1992) | Bulls versus Blazers and the NBA Playoffs (1993) | NBA Showdown '94 (1994) | NBA Live 95 (1994) | NBA Live 96 (1995) | Coach K College Basketball (1995) | NBA Live 97 (Mega Drive) (1996) | NBA Live 97 (Saturn) (1996) | NBA Live 98 (Mega Drive) (1997) | NBA Live 98 (Saturn) (1997)
Golf
Zany Golf (1990) | PGA Tour Golf (1990) | PGA Tour Golf II (1992) | PGA Tour Golf III (1994) | PGA European Tour (1994) | PGA Tour Golf II (1995) | PGA Tour 96 (1995) | PGA Tour 97 (1996)
Ice Hockey
NHL Hockey (Mega Drive) (1991) | NHLPA Hockey '93 (1992) | NHL Hockey '94 (1993) | Elitserien 95 (1994) | Mutant League Hockey (1994) | NHL 95 (1994) | NHLPA Hockey (1994) | Elitserien 96 (1995) | NHL 96 (1995) | NHL Hockey (Game Gear) (1995) | NHL 97 (Mega Drive) (1996) | NHL 97 (Saturn) (1996) | NHL 98 (Mega Drive) (1997) | NHL 98 (Saturn) (1997)
Racing
Mario Andretti Racing (1994) | Andretti Racing (1996) | NASCAR 98 (1997)
Rugby
Rugby World Cup 1995 (1994) | Australian Rugby League (1995)
Soccer
FIFA International Soccer (8-bit) (1993) | FIFA International Soccer: Championship Edition (1994) | FIFA Soccer 95 (1994) | FIFA Soccer 96 (Mega Drive) (32X | Saturn | Game Gear) (1995) | FIFA Soccer 97 (Gold Edition) (1996) | FIFA Road to World Cup 98 (Mega Drive) (1997) | FIFA Road to World Cup 98 (Saturn) (1997)
Misc.
EA Sports Double Header (1992) | IMG International Tour Tennis (1994) | Toughman Contest (1994)
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