Cast your memory, or if not recollection, your imagination, back nearly forty years to the first good electronic basketball game. The game that marks the true beginning of EA Sports, back in 1983. That’s right, it’s One On One: Dr. J. Vs Larry Bird. It’s ironic that EA has more or less abandoned serious NBA simulations (for now anyway), because they are the ones who started it all. (There was a time when NBA Live was for “purists” who wanted to see basketball that more or less looked like the game we see, and 2K was the “arcade” version of the NBA.
One on One
