NBA Jam
Midway
1993
He’s heating up!!!!!!!
Take basketball, lose 3 players per side on the court, drop the time down to 3 mins a quarter. you have 2 on 2 back and forth quick scoring basketball. its like the arena football of basketball games.
The game was released by Midway in another attempt to bring sports to those who normally would not play them. Originally released in the arcades the game became a huge success. At the time it was considered an expensive game ranging anywhere from 1.00 to 2.00 dollars to play the whole game and generated an estimated billion dollars in quarters. (Anyone need change for Laundry? Midway’s got ya!)
No fouls, no free throws, the only violations one can make in this game are goal tending and shot clock violation. Make 3 shots consecutively without the opponent scoring and the announcers will make the call we have all come to know and love. “He’s on Fiiiiire!” Have the opponent score, or make 4 shots in a row and this goes away. During this time however the only rule that applies to you is the shot clock, goal tend away my friends.
One of the greatest feature of this game is the codes. The codes in the first game were no where near as impressive as the other ones but who doesn’t want play as Bill Clinton?
The first one had:
Air Dog
Al Gore
Bill Clinton
Chow-Chow
Eric ”KABUKI” Kuby
Jamie Rivett
Mark Turmell
P Funk
Sal Divita
SCRUFF
Warren Moon
Weasel
The list got better as the games went on. As far as the success of this franchise it went on to do versions of other sports that were high impact low rules such as NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz, MLB Slugfest, and RedCard 20-03.
Chachi Says: this is a keeper, one of those games that allows you to play sports when you don’t want to play by the rules. Or if you wanna goof around and make Hilrod go up against Bill with your friends. this is the game for you.
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