The three decades after the 90s have been trash for sure. Not sure if they match the dumpster fires of the 1910s-40s, but they’re down there. This game has so many Marv-isms in the announcer lines, from “Yes!” To “Delivers a facial!” It takes me back.🥹
@@jdigitalseven7 i would dare to say Charles Barkley is the best player in the game, he has an excellent 3 point shot, a reliable mid-shot jumper and he is a great rim finisher His only weakness is his defence
I own this actual arcade cabinet! When I was a kid I thought it would he so amazing to have it and MK2 next to each other. 25 Years later I have them both side by side as well as T2 and TMNT
I remember when this first hit the arcades. It was a arcade place near Midway studio here in Chicago I remember seeing it and couldn't wait to get a turn. I was hyped when I found out it was coming to the consoles I picked it up day one at Funcoland 😂
NBA Jam is way better than any of that shit except for maybe NBA Street i tried to play NBA 2k the other day. Shit is way too fucking complicated. You have to input these Mortal Kombat Fatality combos just to score a layup wtf
I wish I grew up in this time. Good music, good games, more good people than there are today, you couldn’t get canceled for saying almost nothing, you wouldn’t have to worry about social media. Being born in 2010 sucks but at least there’s still some good things in the world
@@scottd7222 used to play it on holidays at a mini golf joint down the road where we used to stay , was the best thing ever after playing basketball nightmare on sega master system
The game was devised after Midway's previous arcade release Total Carnage (1992) failed to meet sales expectations. Lead designer and programmer Turmell wanted to develop a game with a wider appeal and decided to mix the digitized graphics of some of Midway's previous titles to create a title similar to Midway's previous basketball game Arch Rivals (1989). Midway was able to procure a license from the NBA, paying royalties of $100 for each unit sold. The NBA initially reacted negatively to the game feeling that an arcade game was wrong for the branding; however, after a second pitch, they eventually became convinced of its potential. In one of Midway's original pitch videos to the NBA, they stated that they planned on including various additional features. These included different camera angles, tips from coaches, instant replays and a first-person view on fast breaks. None of these features were included in the final game. The graphics for the NBA players were created from digitized video footage of several amateur basketball players, including future NBA player Stephen Howard. These players were available as secret characters in certain versions of the game.
the nights i spend playing this with my old brother, and my father asking us to shut up 😂 good times really good times.. doom, jack jazz rabbit, lotus, fifa 96, mk..
Late 90's I played this game during lunch every day. All American meal from McD's, 1.99. NBA Jam, Free. (Knew arcade guy well and he always hooked it up)
Fun fact: programmer Mark Turmen rigged the game a bit, he put into code that if the score was even, Bulls couldn't score points in the end of the game's few seconds. That was because he was Detroit fan and Bulls were so much succefull at the time.
Despite I'm more into the basketball simulators like NBA Live and the earlier NBA 2K games, I like NBA Jam and it's a cool game. It's a fun, arcade-style game, similar to NFL Blitz and NHL Hitz (the latter two were also made by Midway) that came later.
Designers of this game be like: Boss: dont add foul rules let em kill each other it will be fun Employee: ok. Lets just remove Goal tending too Boss: wtf bro we gotta keep it man we need to stick by the rules.....
By the way, you did NOT want to be the Mavericks in this game or the Tournament Edition. In those two seasons alone, the head coach was fired, the _interim_ head coach was fired, the coach they hired to replace _HIM_ was fired, and they had to beg Dick Motta out of retirement just to get going again! Even Motta couldn't turn them around, and he retired in disgrace after being fired by the Denver Nuggets in 1997. The Mavericks were a first-class joke until they drafted Dirk Nowitzki.
I watched the whole 1st quarter. Pippen slapped them around in the 1st and made the Pistons look sorry. The first quarter ended... The second quickly began. I was thinking... more of the same. More one-sided destruction. I thought... Surely the first play of the 2nd quarter will show me just what the Bulls are going to do. Here is what I saw: 4:31 An excellent play develops later. As the play begins... The Bulls stumble. They almost gave away an easy two points. Pippen drops a wicked recovery-to-block-to-assist of the year candidate. What a play: 5:28 FIRST FLAME: 6:18 I watched till 7:49 then decided to hit [Comment] Thank you
sainttrunks1982 they made a version especially for him where he is on it. Arstechnica just wrote and article about it this week. It is believed Jordan has one; and there is one, only one, actually out in the wild with a working Jordan on it.
@@thagreatone3139 Here you go my friend. arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/boomshakalaka-how-the-original-nba-jam-caught-fire-through-chaos/?comments=1 You can watch the video or find the part in the article where they made MJ his custom version of the game.
NBA Jam was the third basketball video game released by Midway, after TV Basketball (1974) and Arch Rivals (1989). The NBA Jam games were ported to many home video game consoles as well as PC, beginning with the original's debut on the highly publicized Jam Day (March 4, 1994). Console versions were well known for featuring many new secret characters; the home versions of Jam T.E. even allowed the player to use then-President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, and Atari's Vice President of Software Development Leonard Tramiel on the Atari Jaguar version. Acclaim published the console versions and later ended up winning the exclusive rights to use the NBA Jam name. Acclaim used the name on NBA Jam Extreme in 1996, a 3D version of Jam which featured Marv Albert doing commentary (whereas the previous games by Midway had Tim Kitzrow doing an impression of Albert on the commentary). The game was a flop in comparison to Midway's version released that same year, rechristened NBA Hangtime. Hangtime added a create-a-player option to the usual batch of new features combined with classic, but refined NBA Jam gameplay. An update called NBA Maximum Hangtime was subsequently released. Also in 1996, Acclaim released a collegiate version of NBA Jam for home consoles entitled College Slam. Although the game was created to capitalize on the popularity of March Madness and the subsequent Final Four, it did not enjoy the popularity of the earlier NBA Jam games. The release of NBA Jam gave rise to a new genre of basketball sports games which were based around fast, action-packed gameplay and exaggerated realism, a formula which Midway would also later reused the concept for apply to the sports of football (NFL Blitz), hockey (2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge, later NHL Hitz, Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey), baseball (MLB Slugfest), and wrestling (WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game). Midway had also developed Power Up Baseball around 1996 based on the same concepts as NBA Jam, but was cancelled as they found the game did not test well due to the large number of paid plays users would need to complete one game, among other issues. Midway produced successors to the series with 3-D graphics, NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC and NBA Hoopz. Acclaim continued to keep the name alive with its console games, although the games were only mildly popular. After making the switch to develop console games exclusively, Midway used Jam's idea on several other sports, with NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz, MLB Slugfest, and RedCard 20-03. Many of Jam's influences remained in their games including the NBA Ballers series. On October 5, 2010, EA Sports released a new version of NBA Jam for the Wii. The game was later ported to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2010. Original NBA Jam creator Mark Turmell was hired to work on this new version in conjunction with EA Vancouver. Following the game's critical and commercial success, a follow-up, NBA Jam: On Fire Edition was released on October 4, 2011 on PSN and XBLA on October 5, 2011. In 2020, Tastemakers LLC released a 3/4 scale replica of the original NBA Jam cabinet featuring emulated versions of the original arcade game, along with Tournament Edition and Hangtime, with newly added online play.
I had college slam (u sure that was the name?) Any way, the graphics were a major improvement, that's what grabbed me initially. The downside for me at least, was no player names, no real players. It had real college teams. I know now about college rules and why there was no player likeness. But that really zapped the fun out of the game for me. But I do remember the graphics being near arcade quality
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This and mortal Kombat were my go to games in 1993
Developed by Midway Games
Same
Yup
Same ! Lmao
I didn't even like sport games but I loved this 🤣
I feel 12 years old back in 1994 all over again. This, Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo and Mortal Kombat 2 DOMINATED arcades back then.
Exactly the big 3. I also played killer instinct
@@brownkiddy77 "C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!"
These were the best times
Same here lol
If you grew up playing this, you are a late 80s-90s kid and grew up in the last great decade
UNDEBATABLE
Agreed. Still don't know juice mode code for sega but fun game especially with the hidden characters.
What a time it was
100%
The three decades after the 90s have been trash for sure. Not sure if they match the dumpster fires of the 1910s-40s, but they’re down there. This game has so many Marv-isms in the announcer lines, from “Yes!” To “Delivers a facial!” It takes me back.🥹
As kids we all would imitate the announcer when we played in gym or something.
Exactly in gym class I actually started shooting like the characters on the game and I use to love when I hit all net.🏀
Hell yea!! Boom shake laka.
He's on fire!
Get that outta here!
I would always select Seattle SuperSonics and pick Shawn Kemp just so I could shatter the backboard with so many consecutive dunks!!!
Orlando was most balanced technically, but Bulls by far were best. In TE Charlotte is best team with the power/dunks/defense.
@@jdigitalseven7 i would dare to say Charles Barkley is the best player in the game, he has an excellent 3 point shot, a reliable mid-shot jumper and he is a great rim finisher
His only weakness is his defence
I sat next to Shawn Kemp at a UCLA game circa 1992
Back then, when pizzerias actually used to have arcades. Bringing it back to my childhood.
I own this actual arcade cabinet! When I was a kid I thought it would he so amazing to have it and MK2 next to each other. 25 Years later I have them both side by side as well as T2 and TMNT
Awesome!
T2 was an amazing arcade game
The envy of every kid on the block that wanted to be your friend when they found out u had arcades
Can I come over after dinner?
Lucky you! I hope the cabinet does not consume too much power
Watching this guy play gives me heartburn.
This game is full of hall of famers💪🏾💪🏾🙌🏾🔥🔥
I remember when this first hit the arcades. It was a arcade place near Midway studio here in Chicago I remember seeing it and couldn't wait to get a turn. I was hyped when I found out it was coming to the consoles I picked it up day one at Funcoland 😂
Holy shit I forgot about Funcoland what an absolutely legendary place
Worked at an arcade with this game. My friends would come by when it was slow and we would play this, very fun
No shit man, one of the best arcade games of all time! Even non-sports fan dug it
The good ole days! Let’s not forget about Mortal Kombat as well...
@@YeekTV_Atlanta Oh yeah we got MKII right as it came out. It was funny hearing people accidentally do some sort of special move and going nuts
@@JamesCraigWhoop Those were definitely some memories
@@JamesCraigWhoop aaah MKII.. I'll never forget how shocked everyone was with MK 1 with the graphics, it was insane for the time.
Before live, before 2k, before nba street (which was amazing, especially #2) this game was the go to basketball game
NBA Jam is way better than any of that shit except for maybe NBA Street
i tried to play NBA 2k the other day. Shit is way too fucking complicated. You have to input these Mortal Kombat Fatality combos just to score a layup wtf
@@skippythealien9627lol it's not that bad 😂😂
Seattle SuperSonics and Chicago Bulls were my favorite squads on there. 1993 was a terrific year for Arcade games.
loved this game so much. brings back so many memories.
the greatest game ever. 👍
It was a classic but so was NBA Street Vol.2 on Ps2... I reckon this is still better than NBA JAM. 🔥
@@jacobcollins9389 Well not necessarily PS2 but definitely in the arcade...
I wish I grew up in this time. Good music, good games, more good people than there are today, you couldn’t get canceled for saying almost nothing, you wouldn’t have to worry about social media. Being born in 2010 sucks but at least there’s still some good things in the world
Who remembers ARCH RIVALS.....original NBA JAM IN LATE 80,s
Damn you went all the way back lol
@@scottd7222 used to play it on holidays at a mini golf joint down the road where we used to stay , was the best thing ever after playing basketball nightmare on sega master system
Bro how TF is your neck so fn long??
The game was devised after Midway's previous arcade release Total Carnage (1992) failed to meet sales expectations. Lead designer and programmer Turmell wanted to develop a game with a wider appeal and decided to mix the digitized graphics of some of Midway's previous titles to create a title similar to Midway's previous basketball game Arch Rivals (1989). Midway was able to procure a license from the NBA, paying royalties of $100 for each unit sold. The NBA initially reacted negatively to the game feeling that an arcade game was wrong for the branding; however, after a second pitch, they eventually became convinced of its potential. In one of Midway's original pitch videos to the NBA, they stated that they planned on including various additional features. These included different camera angles, tips from coaches, instant replays and a first-person view on fast breaks. None of these features were included in the final game. The graphics for the NBA players were created from digitized video footage of several amateur basketball players, including future NBA player Stephen Howard. These players were available as secret characters in certain versions of the game.
Arch Rivals was great
people used to crowd around this at the arcade. Fun game
Nostalgia like a mf . The good old days ✌🏾✌🏾
Gets the rebound like 5 feet out of bounds, goes the other way and puts up a brick. And that goes in. Beautiful.
Funny when you show the kids how amazing this game was. What they must think 😂
Can the announcer just be the official NBA announcer for all actual games from now on?
This game, Mortal Kombat, and the GLITCH Street fighter, where you can throw fireballs in the air like Akuma did, were the games I played religiously.
The best line of all is when you try a monster dunk in the dying seconds and you don't beat the clock and the announcer goes "BAD DECISION!"
I feel like a little again seeing this! Thank you for uploading this to this platform!
That first game really had me hyped: cheering, oohing and aahing. 👏🏾😄👍🏾
Ohh the memories. 😄
I like when he says “ The Nail in the Coffin”
Yup, and he got that from Chick Hearn I believe
This game still looks really good.
ui so clean
4:15 was kind of funny. "Bad Decision!"
oooooooOOOH Bad Decision 😂
Hands down the funnest basketball game in the history of the universe.
I went to a wedding yesterday and they had 2 arcade machines one was nba jam and the other was final fight and I crushed people in nba jam
Spent a good amount of time playing this back in the day. Good times, thanks for the upload. 😀
im counting the days on when NBA JAM will finally hit modern consoles, specially the switch
the nights i spend playing this with my old brother, and my father asking us to shut up 😂 good times really good times.. doom, jack jazz rabbit, lotus, fifa 96, mk..
NBA Jam and Techno ball and Tyson punch out are still the best sport games invented.
Techmo bowl was on point
DAAYYUUUMMM I MISS THIS CLASSIC.!!!! The '90z' waz unique.
:s
Late 90's I played this game during lunch every day. All American meal from McD's, 1.99. NBA Jam, Free. (Knew arcade guy well and he always hooked it up)
This reminds me of watching my friends younger brother getting a turn.. always picking bulls, always shooting 3s....
Ahhhh that sweet arcade feel 😊
Greatest Arcade Game of All Time!!!! Well this, TMNT and X-Men. You could say Pac man too. Only thing I hated was all the damn quarters I spent....😒😒
It was fun, that's for sure. 👍
Don’t forget Galaga
Got to throw the Simpsons up there
And ninja turtles
@@bruschj that is what TMNT is
Teenage/Mutant/Ninja/Turtles
Whhooaaaaaa..BOOM Shakalaka! I remember this and it was the beast of all arcade sport games!
Is it the shoes?!?!?!
This game brings so much nostalgia 1900’s were the best lol
Fun fact: programmer Mark Turmen rigged the game a bit, he put into code that if the score was even, Bulls couldn't score points in the end of the game's few seconds. That was because he was Detroit fan and Bulls were so much succefull at the time.
also the game is haunted by petrovic
well also there's rubber band AI, soon as you go up big the opponent comes back with a vengance, when you're down big everything goes in.
Wow! That is nostalgia. I was like "NBA jam?...hey, I DID play this game".
That was an intense first game, I forgot how brutal this game was, no way you could do this in the NBA.
Ahhhhhh good ol games that would sprout out a epileptic seizure and u kept on playing.
93 was arguably the best year for entertainment if you were a kid.
Mortal Kombat I & II, Jurassic park, Last Action Hero, The Sandlot, Mrs Doubtfire,
notice mkII in the advertisement when they were made by the same company
No fouls, no outsides, no trouble, fuck rules loved this game
Great memories as a young child playing this I always chose Indiana Pacers.
Great game so much fun.
40:17 Petrovic rejects Shaq 😂😂
Back when the only kind of shot that anyone wanted to see in basketball was a DUNK!!
Better than 2k22
11:40 This dunk was so epic! OOOOHHHOOOOHHOOOOOOHHH!
Facts. I replayed it multiple times 🔥🔥
Despite I'm more into the basketball simulators like NBA Live and the earlier NBA 2K games, I like NBA Jam and it's a cool game. It's a fun, arcade-style game, similar to NFL Blitz and NHL Hitz (the latter two were also made by Midway) that came later.
The amount of hidden characters, "cheats," and secrets in this game was epic.
Sounds like a ticking time bomb when you didn't want to continue without a full game entering your initials or don't select a team
Designers of this game be like:
Boss: dont add foul rules let em kill each other it will be fun
Employee: ok. Lets just remove Goal tending too
Boss: wtf bro we gotta keep it man we need to stick by the rules.....
Slam dunks here are insane.
Half court shots went in like 30% of the time. We were coked out teenagers playing this!
We used to drop acid and play. Definitely made things interesting
Everytime I Play This Game I Always Hear That Quote "He's Heating Up! On Fire!"
"Delivers the facial!" Did not age well xD
By the way, you did NOT want to be the Mavericks in this game or the Tournament Edition. In those two seasons alone, the head coach was fired, the _interim_ head coach was fired, the coach they hired to replace _HIM_ was fired, and they had to beg Dick Motta out of retirement just to get going again! Even Motta couldn't turn them around, and he retired in disgrace after being fired by the Denver Nuggets in 1997. The Mavericks were a first-class joke until they drafted Dirk Nowitzki.
Best basketball game ever
BOOM SHAKALAKA
The announcer was awesome in that gane
I wonder how many NBA players were shocked when this came out that they couldn't jump as high as in the game.
I would always use Oursler (one of the programmers for the game) and make the head big lol
I hated when there was that one player who would eat your coins...😤
that one player must have been hungry 😂😜
I watched the whole 1st quarter. Pippen slapped them around in the 1st and made the Pistons look sorry. The first quarter ended... The second quickly began. I was thinking... more of the same. More one-sided destruction.
I thought... Surely the first play of the 2nd quarter will show me just what the Bulls are going to do. Here is what I saw: 4:31
An excellent play develops later. As the play begins... The Bulls stumble. They almost gave away an easy two points. Pippen drops a wicked recovery-to-block-to-assist of the year candidate. What a play: 5:28
FIRST FLAME: 6:18
I watched till 7:49 then decided to hit [Comment] Thank you
You're welcome ☺
These was the days NBA jam and mortal Kombat at the arcades I remember I had got a hundred dollars in quarters to play this All day
I used to love getting away with the blatant ass push in order to "steal" the ball 😂😂😂
Disappointed I didn’t hear BOOMSHAKALAKA!!
Tarzan on the 360 is epic! Loved this game as a kid.
can't believe you got those long range threes against the mavs far out !!! but still lost :(
yeah, it happens 😧
Iuzzolino GRABS THE REBOUND
I loved it
My dad saw me playing 2k and brought up this ☝🏽
Lol, far cry from 2k games.....
Also, nice profile Pic man lmao
This is the game that made Dr disrespect the 2x💪🏽🤣
I smiled on the first dunk
I remember how big of a deal it was to have those two FMV half time videos back then! I was groundbreaking lol!!!
I would always pick the Houston Rockets to play with Olajuwon.😂
For me, it was either him or Rodman I would choose.
I remembered shaq was playable in arcade but not on console
I cannot believe bow amazing the graphics is!!!!!! It looks more realer than nba jam 2011!!!
I was always Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen
That's not MJ lol
I Love NBA Jam❤😊😊
This game & Street Fighter 2 🔥🔥🔥 we're my games.
PIPPEN! OOOOOOHHHHH
Could you imagine Michael Jordan on NBA Jam 😲🔥
sainttrunks1982 they made a version especially for him where he is on it. Arstechnica just wrote and article about it this week. It is believed Jordan has one; and there is one, only one, actually out in the wild with a working Jordan on it.
@@Anth8787 Wow, id like to see it
@@Anth8787 dope💯 link the information
@@thagreatone3139 Here you go my friend. arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/boomshakalaka-how-the-original-nba-jam-caught-fire-through-chaos/?comments=1
You can watch the video or find the part in the article where they made MJ his custom version of the game.
@@Anth8787 whoa never knew that
Dope! Even tho you play like you got 2 fingers on each hand.
This dude shooting threes with Shaq 😳
7:20 Grant out here makin plays
NBA Jam could get Barkley and Reggie Miller, but NBA 2K couldn't .
Geez, Barkely and Miller both said no to 2k.
@@andrewmoore7927 Rightfully so, no one should support that gambling game
NBA Jam was the third basketball video game released by Midway, after TV Basketball (1974) and Arch Rivals (1989).
The NBA Jam games were ported to many home video game consoles as well as PC, beginning with the original's debut on the highly publicized Jam Day (March 4, 1994). Console versions were well known for featuring many new secret characters; the home versions of Jam T.E. even allowed the player to use then-President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, and Atari's Vice President of Software Development Leonard Tramiel on the Atari Jaguar version. Acclaim published the console versions and later ended up winning the exclusive rights to use the NBA Jam name.
Acclaim used the name on NBA Jam Extreme in 1996, a 3D version of Jam which featured Marv Albert doing commentary (whereas the previous games by Midway had Tim Kitzrow doing an impression of Albert on the commentary). The game was a flop in comparison to Midway's version released that same year, rechristened NBA Hangtime. Hangtime added a create-a-player option to the usual batch of new features combined with classic, but refined NBA Jam gameplay. An update called NBA Maximum Hangtime was subsequently released.
Also in 1996, Acclaim released a collegiate version of NBA Jam for home consoles entitled College Slam. Although the game was created to capitalize on the popularity of March Madness and the subsequent Final Four, it did not enjoy the popularity of the earlier NBA Jam games.
The release of NBA Jam gave rise to a new genre of basketball sports games which were based around fast, action-packed gameplay and exaggerated realism, a formula which Midway would also later reused the concept for apply to the sports of football (NFL Blitz), hockey (2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge, later NHL Hitz, Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey), baseball (MLB Slugfest), and wrestling (WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game). Midway had also developed Power Up Baseball around 1996 based on the same concepts as NBA Jam, but was cancelled as they found the game did not test well due to the
large number of paid plays users would need to complete one game, among other issues. Midway produced successors to the series with 3-D graphics, NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC and NBA Hoopz. Acclaim continued to keep the name alive with its console games, although the games were only mildly popular.
After making the switch to develop console games exclusively, Midway used Jam's idea on several other sports, with NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz, MLB Slugfest, and RedCard 20-03. Many of Jam's influences remained in their games including the NBA Ballers series.
On October 5, 2010, EA Sports released a new version of NBA Jam for the Wii. The game was later ported to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2010. Original NBA Jam creator Mark Turmell was hired to work on this new version in conjunction with EA Vancouver. Following the game's critical and commercial success, a follow-up, NBA Jam: On Fire Edition was released on October 4, 2011 on PSN and XBLA on October 5, 2011.
In 2020, Tastemakers LLC released a 3/4 scale replica of the original NBA Jam cabinet featuring emulated versions of the original arcade game, along with Tournament Edition and Hangtime, with newly added online play.
I had college slam (u sure that was the name?)
Any way, the graphics were a major improvement, that's what grabbed me initially.
The downside for me at least, was no player names, no real players. It had real college teams.
I know now about college rules and why there was no player likeness.
But that really zapped the fun out of the game for me.
But I do remember the graphics being near arcade quality
this game legitimately screwed with my view of what was allowed in basketball lmao
4:17 Cliffhanger. 😂🤣
The good old days man 93 man !!
Best game in the world memories