NBA Jam

Two-on-two exaggerated arcade basketball with licensed players and commentary as pure spectacle.

Released 1993 Developer Midway Platform Arcade Genre Sports Era 8- and 16-bit

Mechanics it built on

Ideas NBA Jam inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

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