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NBA Showtime is a basketball arcade game released by Midway in 1999, featuring teams and players from the National Basketball Association (NBA). The game is modeled after the NBA presentations on NBC and takes its name from NBC's NBA pregame show.
The video game NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC, by Midway Games, was named after the pregame show. During the NBA Finals, additional coverage would be immediately available on CNBC, in which the panelists provided an additional half-hour of in-depth game discussions, after the NBC broadcast network's coverage concluded.
NBA Showtime was the pregame show aired before each NBA on NBC telecast. The program, a half-hour in length, began during the 1990–91 NBA season, and was initially hosted by Bob Costas. Costas left in the mid-1990s, and became lead play-by-play voice of The NBA on NBC in 1997.
In basketball, Showtime was an era in Los Angeles Lakers history from 1979 to 1991 when the National Basketball Association (NBA) team played an exciting run-and-gun style of basketball. Led by Magic Johnson 's passing skills and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 's scoring, the team relied on fast breaks and won five NBA championships .
NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC: 1999 Arcade PlayStation Nintendo 64 Dreamcast Game Boy Color 2000: Avalanche Software Eurocom Entertainment Software: Midway: NBA Inside Drive 2000: August 26, 1999 Windows: High Voltage Software: Microsoft Game Studios: NBA Basketball 2000: October 31, 1999 November 3, 1999 PlayStation Windows: Radical Entertainment ...
Magic Johnson along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar led the "Showtime" Lakers to five NBA titles in the 1980s. In the 1979 NBA draft, Los Angeles selected 6-foot, 9-inch point guard Magic Johnson from Michigan State with the first overall pick. [106]
Michael Jerome Cooper (born April 15, 1956) is an American basketball coach and former player. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers during his entire career in the National Basketball Association, winning five NBA championships with the Lakers during their Showtime era.
NBA Hangtime is a 1996 basketball arcade game developed and released by Midway. Home versions were released for the Nintendo 64 , PlayStation , Super NES , Sega Genesis , and Microsoft Windows . Hangtime was the third basketball game by the original development team behind the NBA Jam series.