NBA Jam
NBA Jam

NBA Jam

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"He's on fire!" Few lines of 1990s game audio are as instantly recognizable, and NBA Jam built an entire genre around the energy behind it. Midway's arcade game, led by designer and programmer Mark Turmell, took real NBA teams, cut each roster down to two stars and threw out nearly everything that slowed basketball down. The result was so popular that in early 1994 the Amusement & Music Operators Association reported it had become the highest-earning arcade game of all time, and Acclaim brought it home to the Super Nintendo while the craze was still at full volume.

The rules are simple and gloriously loose. It is two-on-two, shoving is fair game, and a turbo button powers sprints, steals and dunks that launch players far above the rim. Hit three baskets in a row with the same player and he catches fire, the ball trailing flames as his shots start dropping from everywhere. Tim Kitzrow's play-by-play keeps up the whole time, with "Boomshakalaka" and the rest of his catchphrases punctuating every highlight. Games are short, comebacks are constant, and the computer is not above a little rubber-band drama to keep the final seconds tense.

NBA Jam drew its foundation from Midway's earlier two-on-two game Arch Rivals, but this is the one that turned exaggerated arcade sports into a mainstream sensation. Midway carried the formula into football with NFL Blitz and hockey with 2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge, and its fingerprints are on just about every over-the-top sports game that followed. On the SNES it became a living-room fixture, and the cartridge was designed to support four players through a multitap adapter, which is when it is at its loudest.

As a home version of a legendary arcade cabinet, it captures what made people line up with quarters: instant, readable action that anyone can pick up and nobody wants to put down after one game. Load it up with a friend on the other controller and you will be trash-talking within a minute, which is about the highest praise a sports game can earn.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1993
Publisher
Midway
Genre
Sports
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-op
About the game

NBA Jam is a basketball arcade game published and developed by Midway in 1993. It is the first entry in the NBA Jam series. The main designer and programmer for this game was Mark Turmell. Midway had previously released such sports games as Arch Rivals in 1989, High Impact in 1990, and Super High Impact in 1991. The gameplay of NBA Jam is based on Arch Rivals, another 2-on-2 basketball video game. However, it was the release of NBA Jam that brought mainstream success to the genre. The game became exceptionally popular, and generated a significant amount of money for arcades after its release, creating revenue of $1 billion in quarters. In early 1994, the Amusement & Music Operators Association reported that NBA Jam had become the highest-earning arcade game of all time. The release of NBA Jam gave rise to a new genre of sports games which were based around fast, action-packed gameplay and exaggerated realism, a formula which Midway would also later apply to the sports of football (NFL Blitz), and hockey (2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge).

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Video: NBA Jam

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