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Lakers vs. Celtics and the NBA Playoffs
10-24-15 03:07 PM
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Lakers vs. Celtics and the NBA Playoffs (GEN) Review Overview Lakers Versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs was released on the Sega Genesis in 1991. An earlier version of it was released for MS-DOS in 1989. It was the first game to be released in the NBA Playoffs series of games made by EA. This series, of course, would predate the NBA Live series of games. Aside from a few differences in terms of rosters and obvious graphical differences, this game is rather similar to its PC counterpart. I don’t really have a lengthy personal back story with this game: I just kind of found it on Vizzed one day. Let’s see if it holds up… Graphics Speaking purely from a graphical standpoint, you can tell that this was an early Sega Genesis game. Most of the colors in the game, from the opening splash to details on the court have a sort of old, washed out feel. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but I’m just saying that it’s worthy of note. For what everything does though, it’s fairly serviceable. Considering the category that we’re on, I won’t go into the menus here. Anyway, other than that little nitpick, everything kind of does its job in terms of identifying things. You can tell the basketball is a basketball, the net is a net, and so on. Strangely enough, the game doesn’t have center court logos. That would be added in games down the line. Not much else to say here… Sound For what little actual audio exists in this game, it’s, again, quite serviceable. I actually like the menu theme as well as the in game background music. All three of these tracks are very 90s style tracks loaded with that ever present Genesis twang, but they do their job in terms of getting you pumped for the action as well as keeping you going. While the net sounds are kind of papery, the sound effects themselves really aren’t that bad, and I’m sure that for the time that they were groundbreaking. Not much else to say there… Gameplay/Difficulty The gameplay presented here is a rather basic template for a basketball game. The basic rules are still intact, with a few differences between the arcade and simulation styles of play that you can choose at the main menu screen. Speaking of the main menu screen, there’s something interesting and worthy of know about how you pick your team in the NBA Playoffs series. You do it by hovering the cursor over the team you want and There are three difficulty levels: preseason, regular-season, and Showtime. As you can probably guess, their easy, medium, and hard respectively. Summary if I can sum up this game in one sentence, it would be the following sentence. Outside of a novelty playing a really early Genesis game and halfway decent basketball game, it’s not very interesting. I say that in terms of the game itself. Frankly, I’m sure the history behind this game and the rivalry it represents is far more fascinating in hindsight than the game itself. One last, quick note on the replayability: this game is good for one gone for now and then, though if you really want to, I suppose you could play the tournament mode. Lakers vs. Celtics and the NBA Playoffs (GEN) Review Overview Lakers Versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs was released on the Sega Genesis in 1991. An earlier version of it was released for MS-DOS in 1989. It was the first game to be released in the NBA Playoffs series of games made by EA. This series, of course, would predate the NBA Live series of games. Aside from a few differences in terms of rosters and obvious graphical differences, this game is rather similar to its PC counterpart. I don’t really have a lengthy personal back story with this game: I just kind of found it on Vizzed one day. Let’s see if it holds up… Graphics Speaking purely from a graphical standpoint, you can tell that this was an early Sega Genesis game. Most of the colors in the game, from the opening splash to details on the court have a sort of old, washed out feel. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but I’m just saying that it’s worthy of note. For what everything does though, it’s fairly serviceable. Considering the category that we’re on, I won’t go into the menus here. Anyway, other than that little nitpick, everything kind of does its job in terms of identifying things. You can tell the basketball is a basketball, the net is a net, and so on. Strangely enough, the game doesn’t have center court logos. That would be added in games down the line. Not much else to say here… Sound For what little actual audio exists in this game, it’s, again, quite serviceable. I actually like the menu theme as well as the in game background music. All three of these tracks are very 90s style tracks loaded with that ever present Genesis twang, but they do their job in terms of getting you pumped for the action as well as keeping you going. While the net sounds are kind of papery, the sound effects themselves really aren’t that bad, and I’m sure that for the time that they were groundbreaking. Not much else to say there… Gameplay/Difficulty The gameplay presented here is a rather basic template for a basketball game. The basic rules are still intact, with a few differences between the arcade and simulation styles of play that you can choose at the main menu screen. Speaking of the main menu screen, there’s something interesting and worthy of know about how you pick your team in the NBA Playoffs series. You do it by hovering the cursor over the team you want and There are three difficulty levels: preseason, regular-season, and Showtime. As you can probably guess, their easy, medium, and hard respectively. Summary if I can sum up this game in one sentence, it would be the following sentence. Outside of a novelty playing a really early Genesis game and halfway decent basketball game, it’s not very interesting. I say that in terms of the game itself. Frankly, I’m sure the history behind this game and the rivalry it represents is far more fascinating in hindsight than the game itself. One last, quick note on the replayability: this game is good for one gone for now and then, though if you really want to, I suppose you could play the tournament mode. |
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One thing that I always find interesting is when a person writes a review from the perspective of the current day when writing the review and marking it down because of some of it's limitations due to it being like 20 years after the game was originally released.
I will give you this, many of these early EA NBA games haven't aged particularly well. With this game specifically, these games were actually very revolutionary for the time when they were released. Up until this point, most of the basketball games on Consoles contained rosters full of made up players that no one had heard of. To have a game like this were your favorite NBA teams and players were represented and that they played pretty different depending on their ratings in a certain area were all VERY revolutionary ideas for their time. Something to keep into consideration anyways. zanderlex : I took care of the other posts and revoked the CP/Viz actions. I will give you this, many of these early EA NBA games haven't aged particularly well. With this game specifically, these games were actually very revolutionary for the time when they were released. Up until this point, most of the basketball games on Consoles contained rosters full of made up players that no one had heard of. To have a game like this were your favorite NBA teams and players were represented and that they played pretty different depending on their ratings in a certain area were all VERY revolutionary ideas for their time. Something to keep into consideration anyways. zanderlex : I took care of the other posts and revoked the CP/Viz actions. |
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That was a nice review, with good details to show that the game did not age well. At least, you do speak with respect to the time of release rather than compare it to, say NBA 2016 for PS 4 (if such a game exists). Since this is a sports game, I guess there is not much more to say than what you said. Congrats! |
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