to be Wii-based, EA bought the rights

http://sports.espn.go.com/videogames/news/story?id=4795625

1/5/2010 4:05:39 PM

I'm just one step ahead of the game

1/5/2010 4:13:04 PM

LOL that article is great

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"The Pack-A-Shaq "Shaq actually bought two machines," said Turmell. "He kept one at home and then, if you can believe this, they shipped the game with them on their road trips, setting up the machine in their hotel rooms as they traveled. The players would play, then get someone to pack it up and ship it off to the next city." The Pippen Jinx Did Scottie Pippen's ratings really drop when he played certain teams or was I just the least clutch shooter every time I played Detroit? "It's true, but only when the Bulls played the Pistons," explained Turmell. "If there was a close game and anyone on the Bulls took a last-second shot, we wrote special code in the game so that they would average out to be bricks. There was the big competition back in the day between the Pistons and the Bulls, and since I was always a big Pistons fan, that was my opportunity to level the playing field." The One Where Drazen Petrovic Haunted the Studio "We had already finished making 'NBA Jam' when Drazen Petrovic died," said Turmell. "The game had already shipped and he was on the Nets. So we had all of these coin-op machines around, and one night we were playing 'Mortal Kombat' and there was a 'Jam' machine next to it, and all of a sudden the game started calling out 'Petrovic! Petrovic!' And this only happened after Petrovic had died. Everyone started freaking out. Something weird was going on with the software, and to this day, if you have an original 'NBA Jam' machine every once in a while it will just yell out 'Petrovic!' It's wild.""

1/5/2010 4:22:23 PM

Mine yells "Iuzzolino !!!" randomly

really catches you off guard

1/5/2010 4:23:45 PM

1/5/2010 4:24:48 PM

since wii discs can hold more data now, i hope they include the old versions that can be unlocked ... i think even a PS2 disc for NHL 06 had the old 94 game on it

1/5/2010 4:28:43 PM

Sweet - I will be picking this up when it is released.

1/5/2010 4:33:58 PM

1/5/2010 4:34:48 PM

he's afraid he's gonna get those red dunk-lines on his wrists

1/5/2010 4:35:42 PM

Brezec? afraid?

lol yeah right, he's the most fearless athlete in the modern era of sports

1/5/2010 4:38:04 PM

What the rest of the league didn't know, what no one outside Slovenia knew, is that that model wrist band was made with a metal plate under it. Its the only thing that saved his career.

1/5/2010 4:43:21 PM

And when the NBA, when they assigned a whole army of referees to stop Primoz, what'd he do? He made 'em partners.

1/5/2010 4:45:09 PM

Primoz' methods of rebounding weren't scientific, but they worked. When he got fouled, he hit his free throws. When he committed a foul, he told the refs to go fuck themselves. I mean, what were they going to do, muscle Primoz ? Primoz was the muscle.

1/5/2010 4:49:40 PM

game better be online-capable

still pissed that new super mario bros isnt

1/5/2010 4:49:58 PM

No matter how big a guy might be, Primoz would take him on. You beat Primoz with hook shots, he comes back with a dunk. You beat him with a personal foul, he comes back with a flagrant foul. And you beat him with a flagrant foul, you better kill him, because he'll keep comin' back and back until one of you is dead.

1/5/2010 4:52:14 PM

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"i think even a PS2 disc for NHL 06 had the old 94 game on it"

yep, I still play the shit out of it

and I won many of NBA Jam tourneys in my day

1/5/2010 4:53:56 PM

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"game better be online-capable"

1/5/2010 4:58:11 PM

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"game better be online-capable"

1/5/2010 5:09:24 PM

sweet

1/5/2010 5:10:09 PM

This game would suck online

Half the fun is talking shit and seeing the other persons face as you rain in 3 after 3 with Scott Skiles

1/5/2010 5:11:33 PM

mister johnny raincloud

1/5/2010 5:12:29 PM

1/5/2010 5:14:15 PM

There should be a secret button on the side that lets you pull yo strap on the court

1/5/2010 5:14:30 PM

Online TWW NBA Jam Championship

1/5/2010 5:22:24 PM

lol @ the Primoz shit

1/5/2010 5:35:09 PM

I remember playing NBA Jam at Jungleland at Atlantic Beach. I played the shit out of that game. And this was 1993, so the Celtics team was the surreal combination of Kevin McHale and Reggie Lewis. The most exciting moment of that year for me was later that fall when I picked up a copy of Fantastic Four at Kerr Drug and saw the ad for the SNES/Genesis port that just said "JAM IT HOME". That made my life at that age.

Will buy this when it comes out and I hope they have that McHale-Lewis team hidden on there.

1/5/2010 5:35:28 PM

Only for Wii = failure

PS3 and XBOX = profit

1/5/2010 5:37:50 PM

Actually if they did have it on PS3 then I might be convinced to finally buy one so I can play the Metal Gear Solid sequels.

1/5/2010 5:39:51 PM

they need to have motion controls with the wii

some windmill 360 drunken antics could be a good time

1/5/2010 5:42:55 PM

from half court with hakeem

what you know about raiden setting a pick

1/5/2010 5:52:17 PM

TODAYS MATCHUP: Patrick Ewing and John Starks vs. Larry Johnson and Kurt Cobain

1/5/2010 5:54:15 PM

Last year I won the following:

Must win by 20 points: $100 vs $2 I won by ~31.


That suckered him for rematch: Must win by 20 points: $100 vs. ecstasy pill. I won by 35



3rd game: Must win vs me playing hands behind back $100 vs $3: Up 20 at half, game was restarted.


4th game: Must win vs me faced backwards not allowed to look only allowed to hear the sounds $20 vs ecstasy pill: Up 40-20 before he shut the game off while his g/f laguhed at him out loud hysterically

1/5/2010 10:08:04 PM

actually Slave Famous it looks like your about 4-5 steps behind the game

1/5/2010 10:12:36 PM

is this nba jam te, or just regular. TE was the shit.

1/6/2010 2:39:00 AM

i'd hope it was updated rosters


and i'd hope it was just released on the fucking Wii

1/6/2010 7:51:35 AM

I'm sure it's update rosters, they'd be dumb to release a game where the only guy from it still playing is...Shaq I guess, but he's only on the Arcade version.

Wonder if he'll license himself for this one. Same for Lebron. Jordan and Shaq wouldn't do that for the home ports, so maybe we'll get a Cleveland team consisting of Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Mo Williams, and JJ Hickson.

I had TE for DOS, lol.

[Edited on January 6, 2010 at 1:37 PM. Reason : .]

1/6/2010 1:36:46 PM

First screenshot



hahaha

1/13/2010 12:13:43 PM

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"game better be online-capable"

1/13/2010 12:22:19 PM

^^WOW!!! too much awesome

1/13/2010 12:28:18 PM

we need a TWW challenge where people guess the 2 players that will be representing their teams


Fans can vote for the rosters...looks like it'll be 3-player teams because you vote for 3 out of 5 or so players that they put on the poll (maybe one of the players can sub in and it's still 2 on 2?)

http://nba-jam.easports.com/home.action

[Edited on January 13, 2010 at 12:46 PM. Reason : ]

1/13/2010 12:28:47 PM

I used to love playing as the Charlotte Hornets...Mugsy, Mourning, and Grand-ma-ma

1/20/2010 12:41:23 AM

1/20/2010 12:43:22 AM

I will be downloading this on Wii tonight.

This is capable of drawing me away from my MW@ obsession for the moment.




Will this ever be released for 360 arcade? That'd be sweet.

[Edited on January 20, 2010 at 8:18 AM. Reason : kk]

1/20/2010 8:18:00 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UL49vb0HEQ

1/20/2010 9:35:09 AM

Too bad we can't skew that poll--

For Minnesota, I picked Jefferson / Brewer / Gomes
For Memphis, Mayo / Randolph / Gay
For G-State, Curry / Maggette / Randolph

1/20/2010 12:31:05 PM

1/20/2010 2:30:18 PM

MONSTER JAM!


HE'S HEATING UP!

1/20/2010 3:16:03 PM

Good, Shaq and LeBron aren't pulling a Shaq and Jordan on this one.

BOOMSHACKALACKA!

1/20/2010 6:20:18 PM

btt

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"Check out the full video on SPIKE's GameTrailers TV March 13 at 1230am EST (March 12 930pm PST)."

3/12/2010 11:18:33 AM

WILL

BE

BORING

3/12/2010 11:20:21 AM