History VideoGame / EASportsStreet

** It's also arguably a direct successor to EA's own ''NHL Rock the Rink'', which came out on the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation in 2000 and was developed by the same studio that went on to make most of the ''Street'' titles.

* AsHimself: Multiple rappers appeared as playable characters in the NBA and NFL Street games, including Nelly, Xzibit, and the Beastie Boys. Xzibit is practically the star of ''NFL Street 2''; not only does he have a spot on the cover and a song in the game, he also plays quarterback for a team named after himself stacked with an all-star roster of NFL players, narrates the tutorials, and gives your created character a primer on how to progress in Own the City mode.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: All three games run on this, with players pulling off impossible dunks, shots, or tackles like it's no big deal.
** The basketball courts in V3: sure Foss Park being dedicated to shooting victims or Rucker being the go to playground for street gods is awesome, but you'd think this is the hallowed ground of the DreamTeam home turf by how much they are revered.

* CharacterAsHimself: Multiple rappers appeared as playable characters in the NBA and NFL Street games, including Nelly, Xzibit, and the Beastie Boys. Xzibit is practically the star of ''NFL Street 2''; not only does he have a spot on the cover and a song in the game, he also plays quarterback for a team named after himself stacked with an all-star roster of NFL players, narrates the tutorials, and gives your created character a primer on how to progress in Own the City mode.

* MadeOfIron: The players on ''NFL Street''. They would be hit as hard as the usual American Football game but without all the armor.

* TotallyRadical: All of them, to some degree, but ''NFL Street'' gets hit with this the hardest thanks to the corny trash talk.

** It's also arguably a direct successor to EA's own ''NHL Rock the Rink'', which came out on the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation in 2000 and was developed by the same studio that went on to make most of the ''Street'' titles.

** It's also arguably a direct successor to EA's own ''NHL Rock the Rink'', which came out on the original PlayStation in 2000 and was developed by the same studio that went on to make most of the ''Street'' titles.

While they have the same publishers, each series were developed by the same team that developed the non-street version

* EasyModeMockery: Once you start winning consistently on easy in the original ''NBA Street'', the game gets pretty in your face with it. The announcer will berate you for playing on easy at the start AND end of each game. Eventually, the post-game tips will straight up tell you "Change the difficulty level. You're too good to be playing on easy."

* SpiritualSuccessor: It's very clear the ''Street'' series, especially ''NBA Street'', was heavily influenced by Creator/{{Midway}}'s ''VideoGame/NBAJam.'' This eventually [[HilariousInHindsight came full circle]], as EA Sports revived ''Jam'' in 2009, and included Stretch as an unlockable character.

* SpiritualSuccessor: It's very clear the ''Street'' series, especially ''NBA Street'', was heavily influenced by Creator/{{Midway}}'s ''VideoGame/NBAJam.'' This eventually [[HilariousInHindsight came full circle]], as EA Sports revived ''Jam'' in 2009, and included Stretch as an unlockable character.

* JiveTurkey: "Shoeless Joe" Jackson goes beyond TotallyRadical and into this with his play-by-play. Possibly justified, since he looks older than most of the players, so he might just be using the slang from when he was a player, but he still habitually says things like this:

* LargeHamAnnouncer: ''NBA Street'' revels in these, first with "Shoeless Joe" Jackson in the original, then with Bobbito Garcia in the games afterwards. The FIFA games' [=MCs=] were more subdued, and the NFL games ditched the announcer in favor of trash talk between the players.

* TotallyRadical: All of them, to some degree, but ''NFL Street'' gets hit with this the hardest thanks to the corny trash talk.

The EA Sports series of ''Street'' SportsGame is a series of game by ElectronicArts released under the brand name of EA Sports BIG. The games are a more arcade and less-realistic take on the sports when compared to the likes of ''VideoGame/MaddenNFL'' or ''VideoGame/FIFASoccer'', two other EA Sports games, but they still had the big sports stars that the two games had. There are different series of these games and they tend to be classified separately, but they usually have some common elements. The games would usually place more emphasis on tricks than tactics.

The EA Sports series of ''Street'' SportsGame is a series of game by ElectronicArts released under the brand name of EA Sports BIG. The games are a more arcade and less-realistic take on the sports when compared to the likes of ''VideoGame/MaddenNFL'' or ''FIFASoccer'', two other EA Sports games, but they still had the big sports stars that the two games had. There are different series of these games and they tend to be classified separately, but they usually have some common elements. The games would usually place more emphasis on tricks than tactics.

** In ''[[VideoGame/DefJam Def Jam Vendetta]]'', a redesigned Drake from the original ''NBA Street'' turns up as one of the first opponents you fight in story mode.

-> [[UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan MJ]] is in the house, baby! Ooooooo-wee!

* CharacterAsHimself: Multiple rappers appeared as playable characters in the NBA and NFL Street games, including Nelly, Xzibit, and the Beastie Boys. Xzibit is practically the star of ''NFL Street''; not only does he have a spot on the cover and a song in the game, he also plays quarterback for a team named after himself stacked with an all-star roster of NFL players, narrates the tutorials, and gives your created character a primer on how to progress in Own the City mode.

* LargeHamAnnouncer: ''NBA Street'' revels in these, first with "Shoeless Joe" Jackson in the original, then with Bobbito Garcia in the games afterwards. The FIFA games' MCs were more subdued, and the NFL games ditched the announcer in favor of trash talk between the players.

* OldSaveBonus: ''NFL Street 2'' gives you 25,000 credits for each save file you have of certain EA games. Also, when you complete Own the City mode, you unlock the ability to import that character into ''[[VideoGame/MaddenNFL Madden NFL 06'''s Superstar mode.

!!The games would provide an example of:

** The basketball courts in V3: sure Foss Park being dedicated to shooting victims or Rucker being the go to playground for street gods is awesome, but you'd think this is the hallowed ground of the DreamTeam home turf by how much they are revered.