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 the Silly Rosters that Lutz made for NBA Live 95.
From the moment I discovered the NLSC – then the NBA Live Series Center – way back in August 1997, I was enthralled with the work that our founders were doing. As is the case with basically everyone who’s joined our community over the years, I was utterly amazed at what was possible with modding; even in those early games. After trying to update NBA Live 96’s rosters with only the in-game functions for a year or so before that, the possibilities now seemed endless. You’re telling me that my created Michael Jordan can have full bio data, and that I can overwrite players? Incredible!
The work that Lutz and Tim were doing with those original NLSC updates inspired me to try my hand at the hobby, which led to me creating my own site, and ultimately still being a part of the community over twenty years later. Those roster packs were more than just current season updates, and when I picked up NBA Live 95 PC a year or so later, I was finally able to mess around with Lutz’s rosters on top of dabbling with some work of my own. A project from that pack that I’ve mentioned a few times before but haven’t covered yet is the Silly Rosters. It’s a product of its era, and the early days of our modding community. Let’s take a look back…way back…
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