Of course this meant that home ports were inevitable. Anyone who stepped into a bowling alley, fairground arcade, or similar, during that period would have heard the familiar sound of the commentator exclaiming “Boomshakalaka!” as four excited players crowded around an NBA Jam cabinet. The original arcade version made millions of dollars in revenue for arcade owners.
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Two-on-two, with very little in the way of actual rules, and an emphasis on crazy slam dunks, NBA Jam gave you the opportunity to select your favourite NBA player, complete with impressive digitised likeness, and send them whizzing around the court at turbo speed, jamming the ball into the hoop in a series of outlandish tricks, and even setting the ball on fire if you manage to pull off three unanswered scores with the same player.
NBA Jam gave arcade patrons a brash, officially licensed, four player game of basketball, the likes of which they had never seen before. Capitalizing on a golden period for the sport, where larger-than-life stars like Shaquille O’Neal, “Sir” Charles Barkley and my favourites, the pick and roll duo of John Stockton and “The Mailman” Karl Malone, were gaining popularity on this side of the Atlantic. Mortal Kombat was an attraction due to the evisceration and by-proxy cool that came with playing something that had been deemed controversial by the powers that be. When I was a youngster, frequenting the then-plentifully stocked amusement arcades of my fair city, the most popular cabinets were always either the top-tier Capcom/SNK fighting games, or the huge, incredibly noisy Midway behemoths that housed their mega-hits: Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam. Available on: Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 (Reviewed on Xbox 360)
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