In the first ever NBA Live for playstation (i forget what year it was) you could do a move that my friends and I referred to as BOMB SQUAD. After your opponent scored and your player went to inbound the ball from under the basket, all you had to do was run your player all the way down court directly under the opposing teams basket. Then simply chuck the imbounds pass all the way down the full court to your player. The other team could never steal the imbounds pass and then you can simply dunk the ball immediately.

Then there is my personal favorite. In the first NBA live for Sega Genesis (maybe it was the first NBA live of all time but i dont remember) Michael Jordan was absolutely unstoppable from one spot on the floor. The game was set up with a viewpoint as if you were sitting at half court watching the game. All you had to do with Jordan was run across the foul line to the high side of the court near the elbow… then simply press the shoot button and Jordan would immediately drive the lane for an easy layup. It didnt matter how many guys were in your way or how many times you pulled this move, he would score everytime (and of course he had the different colored shoes on).

I would like to add one more thing. In the original NBA Jam there was no Bill Cartwright, only Horace Grant and Scottie Pippen.

I remember the screaming and the panic when someone inititiated a wheel-play and a defensemen failed his check. (Marty McSorley was infamously uncheckable.)
Your only hope was to take control of the goalie (usually suicide) and dive at the player as he came across the goal mouth. Honestly, NHL ‘94 is probably the greatest passtime of my life. Not even just the greatest video-game, a title which it clearly locked up by the end of my sophomore year.

My favorite was the fact that you could pick, skinny, medium or fat players. The skinny ones being fast, the fat ones being better shooters.

Hurray for stereotypes!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acU-MY7ZqiU

And therefore, the greatest move in a hockey video game is when you started a fight between the two teams. Which caused all the players on the ice to pile on each other, with bodies being thrown out no less.

Plus what other games allowed you play as Poland AND the Soviet Union?