Combining turbo with steal has your player pushing an opponent to the ground, with no penalty, as the rules are only very loosely enforced here, with no fouls and only goal-tending penalised. Off the ball, pass attempts a swipe at the ball and a possible steal, while shoot launches your player into the air for a block or to grab a possible rebound. With the ball, you can also hammer turbo while stationary to ward off opponents, tap shoot to fake a shot (head fake), and hold shoot then hit pass to begin a jump shot and release the ball to a team mate. One button passes, another shoots, and a third adds turbo. Out on the court, simple controls enable accessible play. Another significant new feature is the inclusion of a third player in each squad, and an injury statistic as the game progresses, which adds a tactical element, including substitutions. Turning ‘tournament’ mode on just locks out certain options, including the more wacky additions (such as power-ups and special areas on the court that may net additional points), keeps the difficulty at a certain level, and turns off computer assistance (which artificially keeps the scores close). Taking charge of any of the (then) 27 NBA teams, you must defeat them all to claim the overall title, although despite the sneakily-misleading name, there’s no NBA season or meaningful tournament option on offer here. With no Jordan, the Bulls aren’t one of the strongest teams.Īnyway, as we mentioned, NBA Jam is an extremely loose interpretation of basketball, based on the arcade game, a coin-guzzling two-on-two affair.
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In any case, Jordan isn’t actually in any home version of the game (despite the proliferation of schoolyard rumours of a special secret unlock code) due to his personal image rights arrangements, although PC gamers, and fans of the great man himself, could console themselves with exclusive access to, er, Michael Jordan in Flight. However, a year or so later, the slightly-updated Tournament Edition did wing its way to DOS machines (although as far as I recall, it was a fairly low-key, possibly budget-only release, escaping any high profile review coverage), by which point UK-based NBA fever had died down slightly, with Michael Jordan retiring and then un-retiring during this period. In 1994, the idea of this one-time arcade favourite making its way to PC would have been fanciful, with its action-packed hi-jinks best suited to the 16-bit consoles of the day. As ever, video games provided a less challenging access route to the sport, and the most prominent one of the era also happened to feature a greatly simplified version of the game, with fewer players per team, virtually no rules, and – most importantly – an emphasis on ludicrous dunks, with players launched miles into the air as an excitable commentator uttered memorable, but borderline-nonsensical catchphrases: welcome to NBA Jam! However, any notions, if they existed, of emulating MJ, Shaq et al in real life, were in most cases swiftly deflated when confronted with the hard realities of the game: the technique required to master the basics, a ball that was much heavier than it looked, and the realisation that slam dunks were out of the question for puny 5ft 8in weaklings. Somehow, all the league’s big stars made their way into the consciousness of British teenagers, many of whom may well have been ignorant of the rules of the game of basketball, but felt perfectly comfortable wearing Air Jordan shoes or a Shaquille O’Neal T-shirt.
The glitzy world of the NBA made a sudden and unexpected appearance in the lives of pasty UK youths in the early 90s, thanks mainly to the impact of the Michael Jordan, the 1992 Dream Team, and the Chicago Bulls. Either that’s going in, or that’s going to hurt.
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