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NBA Live 97

1996 basketball video game
VideoGame video_game Q428548
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Summary

NBA Live 97 is a video game[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of video game entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (272 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Composer: Brian L. Schmidt[4]
  • Publisher: Electronic Arts[5]
  • Genre: basketball video game[6]
  • Developer: EA Sports[7]
  • Part of the series: NBA Live[8]
  • Platform: Microsoft Windows[9], Super Nintendo Entertainment System[10], Sega Genesis[11], PlayStation (console)[12]
  • Game mode: multiplayer video game[13], single-player video game[14]
  • Distribution format: ROM cartridge[15]
  • Review score: ★★★★★[16]
  • Input device: gamepad[17]
  • Publication date: 1996[18], November 1996[19]
  • Sport: basketball[20]
  • ESRB rating: Kids to Adults[21]
  • USK rating: USK 0[22]
  • Main subject: basketball[23]
  • Title: NBA Live 97[24]
  • Set in period: 1997[25]
  • PlayStation DataCenter URL: https://psxdatacenter.com/games/U/N/SLUS-00267.html[26]
  • P14470: Games/NBA_Live_97[27]

Why It Matters

NBA Live 97 has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

Related Entities

EA Sports Electronic Arts gamepad Microsoft Windows United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . redump.org. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Gen4. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . USK Classification Database. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . PlayStation DataCenter. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · JzK · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Playstation datacenter url → https://psxdatacenter.com/games/U/N/SLUS-00267.html
    Review score → ★★★★★
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en', 'fr', 'it', 'lld', 'nl', 'pt', 'sv']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Playstation datacenter url: https://psxdatacenter.com/games/U/N/SLUS-00267.html, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/84919141|NBA LIVE 97 (#84919141)]] in [[:toolla"
  2. 21d ago · Mule hollandaise · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Usk rating → USK 0, USK 0, USK 0
    Abandonware-france game id → 1555
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Abandonware-france game id: 1555, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275230|batch #275230]]"
  3. 9w ago · Matthias M. · 2026-08-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Usk rating → USK 0, USK 0, USK 0
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Usk rating: USK 0"
  4. 10w ago · Matthias M. · 2026-08-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Usk id → 2281, 2380, 2516
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Usk id: 2281, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/142832526|NBA Live ’97 (#142832526)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5476|USK]] #mix'n'match"
  5. 15w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Distribution format → ROM cartridge
    Publisher → Electronic Arts
    Composer → Brian L. Schmidt
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/38730|batch #38730]]: adding Giant Bomb Wiki game IDs matched via OpenRefine"
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