NBA Courtside 2002
NBA Courtside 2002

NBA Courtside 2002

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Item Description

While other publishers were busy porting their basketball series to the GameCube, Nintendo commissioned one of its own. NBA Courtside 2002 is the third and final game in Left Field Productions' Courtside series, following the two Nintendo 64 entries, and the only one on the GameCube, an exclusive that reached shelves in January 2002, barely two months into the console's life. Kobe Bryant, the face of the series since the N64 days, is back on the cover, and the timing could hardly have been better: this is the 2001-02 season, with Kobe and Shaq's Lakers chasing a third straight championship.

Every player from that season is here with individual ratings, and the game pairs a full season mode with a looser arcade mode that drew favorable comparisons with NBA Street. Up to four players can share the court at once, which made it an easy party pick for GameCube owners with a full set of controllers, and the customization tools let you tweak player names, faces and stats to suit your own league. Eurogamer gave it 8/10, praising the graphics, ball physics, AI and sound, and argued it outclassed EA's NBA Live 2002.

Its appeal today is partly historical. This is the end of the line for a Nintendo-published basketball series that began on the N64, and it plays like a launch-era Nintendo production: clean, fast and built for the GameCube controller rather than adapted from another console. For a GameCube sports shelf, it is the system's own NBA game, and a vivid snapshot of the league at the height of the Kobe and Shaq years.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2002
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Left Field Productions
Players
Single player, Split screen
About the game

Developed exclusively for Nintendo GameCube by Nintendo and Left Field, NBA Courtside 2002 taps into the power of Nintendo GameCube to deliver authentic NBA action that makes those other games look like they're stuck in the era of the two-handed jump shot. Up to four players can hit the hardwood simultaneously and talk trash to their hearts' content as they bust sweet cross-overs, first-step jukes and monster dunks.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.

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