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NBA Courtside 2002 for Nintendo GameCube
NBA Courtside 2002 for Nintendo GameCube lets you play basketball with NBA teams and players from the beginning of this century. You play full games, look for an open shooter and use dribbling moves to create space for a lay-up or dunk. You can pass with a button or with the C-stick, pointing it towards a teammate. On defence, you switch players to meet the ball handler or grab a rebound.
You can start a single game or guide a team through a season. Along the way, you track statistics and can trade, sign and release players. Training gives you room to practise the controls, while the three-point contest focuses on shooting from distance. Create-A-Player also lets you make your own basketball player. Up to four players can take part locally at the same time, so you can play with friends on the same screen.
Arcade moves the action to a rooftop court, where you play three against three. Jumps and dunks are exaggerated here, and special spots appear on the floor that can earn you extra points. As a result, you also watch the position of those spots when building an attack. This format gives NBA Courtside 2002 a different rhythm alongside its regular basketball games.
Region and language
Our Nintendo GameCube games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
NBA Courtside 2002 for Nintendo GameCube includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of NBA Courtside 2002
NBA Courtside 2002 was released in 2002 for Nintendo GameCube. Left Field Productions developed the game, and Nintendo published it. It brought the Courtside series to Nintendo’s new console after two earlier games on Nintendo 64. Kobe Bryant remained a familiar face of the series. For this GameCube game, he also took part in motion-capture sessions that the developers used to animate the basketball players.
In presenting the game, Nintendo highlighted the players’ faces, their movements on the court and the ability to play with four people. The controls also used the C-stick for directional passes. This gave the second stick a specific role during a basketball game: you partly selected the recipient through the direction in which you moved the stick. The combination of season games and exaggerated arcade basketball followed the series’ earlier direction.
Ultimately, NBA Courtside 2002 remained the only Courtside game for Nintendo GameCube and the last game in the series. Basketball games from EA and Sega also appeared on the same console, with their own approaches to team management and street basketball. This instalment therefore preserves a distinct chapter in Nintendo’s sporting history. It shows how Left Field adapted the familiar structure of its Nintendo 64 games to a different controller and a new generation of player models.
Similar games for Nintendo GameCube
NBA 2K3 also lets you play official NBA games on Nintendo GameCube, but develops club management further through Franchise. There, you also take account of contracts and the period between seasons. NBA Courtside 2002 focuses its season play on the current competition and also offers a separate arcade version with three players per team.
NBA Live 2005 adds an extensive All-Star Weekend, including a dunk contest in which you influence how your dunk is performed. NBA Courtside 2002 also has a three-point contest, but its most distinctive change of pace comes from the rooftop arcade basketball. Alongside regular NBA games, both give you room to practise individual basketball skills.
NBA Street focuses entirely on three-on-three basketball, tricks and a Gamebreaker that you build up through eye-catching moves. This has something in common with the exaggerated jumps in NBA Courtside 2002’s Arcade. Courtside also lets you play full NBA games. You can therefore switch between competition with complete teams and a more relaxed format on a rooftop court.
NBA Street Vol. 2 combines street basketball with NBA legends and lets you save a Gamebreaker for a stronger Level 2 Gamebreaker. Tricks are a continuous part of your attack there. In NBA Courtside 2002, Arcade instead uses special scoring spots to change your decisions. Regular season games also remain a separate part of the game.
NBA Street V3 gives you a Trick Stick and options to create your own court. On Nintendo GameCube, Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach also take part as the Nintendo All-Stars. NBA Courtside 2002 sticks to NBA basketball players and a player you create yourself. The main similarity is the room for big dunks and local play with friends.
