NBA Live is a very classic and popular video and PC game series themed around NBA (National Basketball Association) basketball matches, developed by EA Canada and published by EA Sports. It's the successor of EA's previous game series released before 1994: NBA Playoffs and NBA Showdown. Since 1994 (until now), it releases a title with the name like NBA Live 9X, 20XX every year, and has got a large number of loyal players around the world.

From TV Animation Slam Dunk: I Love Basketball (AKA: ?????? ?????? I Love Basketball) is a basketball video game for Sega Saturn game console adapted from the classic Japanese manga and TV anime Slam Dunk. It was only released in Japan by BANDAI in 1995.

Slam Dunk is considered to be the noonday work of Japanese realism manga, its fame in the whole manga/animation world can not be overlooked. Especially when its TV Animation broadcasted around the world, it raised an unprecedented hot wave of basketball in adolescents. Believe that many 80 and 90's love to basketball might be based on the this animation. Thereinto, almost everyone who saw it must fell in love with its songs (including OP, ED and ES).

As is known to all, Slam Dunk is Inoue Takehiko (????)'s master manga work. Accordingly, many game works with the same name emerged at the right moment. But there are mainly 3 Slam Dunk games are celebrated, that is: the version on SNES/SFC (Super Family Computer) platform with cartoon style; the most popular version on Sega Mega Drive console; and the totally orthodox sports game version for MAME with the highest playability.