NBA Showdown is a 1993

1993 in video gaming

-Events:*March — In Sweden, the Swedish video game magazine Super PLAY starts. The original name is Super Power.*Midway Games embroiled in controversy for its game Mortal Kombat from 1992 when the game is launched for video game consoles in 1993....

 video game for the Super NES

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...

 game console. The game is a sequel to Bulls versus Blazers

Bulls versus Blazers

Bulls versus Blazers and the NBA Playoffs is a 1992 video game that was available for the Super NES and later in 1993 Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, game consoles. The game was a sequel to the Bulls vs. Lakers video game.-Play mode:...

video game. The same title was re-released for the Sega Mega Drive

Sega Mega Drive

The Sega Genesis is a fourth-generation video game console developed and produced by Sega. It was originally released in Japan in 1988 as , then in North America in 1989 as Sega Genesis, and in Europe, Australia and other PAL regions in 1990 as Mega Drive. The reason for the two names is that...

 as NBA Showdown 94.

Play mode

The game could be played in various ways: players could play against each other, or against the computer. Games against the computer were divided into two levels, "exhibition" or "playoffs". Players could pick from any of the NBA teams for the first time, including non-playoff teams. Games could be configured for 2, 5, 8 or 12 minute quarters.

History

• It was one of the first basketball games to feature every NBA team in the league. Tecmo NBA Basketball
  Tecmo NBA Basketball
  Tecmo NBA Basketball is a multiplatform basketball game that combines real time action with cinema-style cutscenes. The quality of graphics is similar to Tecmo Super Bowl...
  
  , which was released in 1991, was the first game to do so.
• It was the first game to feature multiple generic custom teams like Skyers and Flyers.
• It was the first basketball game to feature in-game 3rd party advertisements for companies like Starter
  Starter Clothing Line
  -Rise and expansion:Starter was founded in 1971 in New Haven, Connecticut by David Beckerman, a former basketball player for Southern Connecticut State University, to manufacture team uniforms for high school athletic programs....
  
   and Topps stadium
  Topps
  The Topps Company, Inc., manufactures chewing gum, candy and collectibles. Based in New York, New York, Topps is best known as a leading producer of baseball cards, football cards, basketball cards, hockey cards and other sports and non-sports themed trading cards.-Company history:Topps itself was...
  
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• It was the first game to deviate from the traditional Eastern Conference finals team vs Western Conference finals team naming convention. Sequentially this title should have been called Bulls versus Suns following the 1993 Finals
  1993 NBA Finals
  The 1993 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1992-93 NBA season, featuring the Chicago Bulls, led by Michael Jordan, and the Phoenix Suns, winners of 62 games and led by regular season MVP Charles Barkley...
  
  . There were controversies as to whether star players like Charles Barkley
  Charles Barkley
  Charles Wade Barkley is a former American professional basketball player. Nicknamed "Sir Charles" and "The Round Mound of Rebound", Barkley established himself as one of the National Basketball Association's most dominating power forwards...
  
   opting out of the players licensing had a profound effect on EA changing to a more generic name like NBA Showdown.
• It was the first basketball game in which EA Sports
  EA Sports
  EA Sports is a brand of Electronic Arts that creates and develops sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to mimic real-life sports networks by calling themselves "EA Sports Network" with pictures or endorsements of real commentators such as John...
  
  , the entity, within EA officially took over the game.
• The first EA sports game to have the tenths of a second rule in the last minute.

Related Games

• Lakers versus Celtics and the NBA Playoffs (1989)
• Bulls versus Lakers and the NBA Playoffs (1991)
• Team USA Basketball (1992)
• Bulls versus Blazers and the NBA Playoffs (1992)
• NBA Live series
  NBA Live series
  The NBA Elite is series of basketball video games, published by EA Sports. There has not been any entry in the series on a home console since 2009. In November 2010, development of the franchise was moved from EA Canada studio to Florida-based Tiburon studio...
  
  (1995 to Present)