
This is Wayback Wednesday, your midweek blast from the past! From retrospectives of basketball games and their interesting features, to republished articles and looking at NBA history through the lens of the virtual hardwood, Wednesdays at the NLSC are for going back in time. This week, I’m taking a look back at my 2002 rosters for NBA Live 99.
If you weren’t around during the heyday of NBA Live modding, you might not be aware that I used to be a prolific roster modder. Inspired by the awesome work that our founders had done for the early NBA Live games on PC, I began making my own current roster updates, in particular focusing on NBA Live 96. I eventually moved on to newer games, and ended up taking over the NLSC-branded current rosters when Lutz retired. Beginning with NBA Live 2003, I spent many years creating current season updates for the latest release in the series.
However, given that I got my start in modding by updating a superseded title, and also have a predisposition for retro gaming, it’s no surprise that I was inspired to work on another older game after leaving NBA Live 96 behind. To that end, come the 2002 season, I began updating the rosters for NBA Live 99 PC, a mod you can still find in our Downloads database today. In some ways it was an unusual choice of game for me to work on, especially since it was a few years old at that point. I had my reasons though, and really enjoyed making those rosters! Let’s take a look back…way back…