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Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside
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In the 1997-98 season, Kobe Bryant was a 19-year-old in his second year with the Lakers, and Nintendo put his name on the cover of its own N64 basketball game. That made him the youngest player ever to have a game named after him, and Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside caught him right at the start of the career that would follow.
Developed by Left Field Productions and published by Nintendo, Courtside is a full five-on-five simulation built on 1997-98 rosters. Exhibition, Season and Playoffs modes let you jump into a quick game, play or simulate your way through a season, or go straight for a run at the NBA Finals, and the console's four controller ports make it a natural for couch matchups against friends. One famous quirk dates it perfectly: Michael Jordan, who was not part of the players' association licensing, does not appear by name and is replaced by a stand-in listed as Roster Player #98.
It found a big audience, selling over a million copies and earning a Player's Choice release, and it launched Nintendo's Courtside line, followed by NBA Courtside 2 on the N64 and NBA Courtside 2002 on the GameCube. With the young Kobe sharing the Lakers' floor with Shaquille O'Neal and the late-'90s league frozen in its rosters, it is a lively time capsule of the era, and the game that started Nintendo's own run in the sport.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1998
- Publisher
- Nintendo
- Developer
- Left Field Productions
- Genre
- Sports
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game
Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside is a basketball simulation game for the Nintendo 64. It was released in 1998 and received a Player's Choice designation after selling one-million copies. Kobe Bryant was in his second NBA season at the time of the game's release and was the youngest player to have a game to his namesake. Kobe Bryant in NBA Courtside features 5-on-5 game play. The game also features 1997-1998 rosters (except for Michael Jordan, who was not in the players' association and is renamed "Roster Player #98"). There are three game options: Exhibition, Season, and Playoffs. The game allows you to either simulate Season games or play them to lead into the playoffs, and win the NBA Finals.
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