NBA Jam

NBA Jam is a basketball arcade game created by Midway in 1993. Many critics claim that the release of NBA Jam gave rise to a new genre of sports games, which were based around action-packed, unrealistic gameplay.

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Midway, no stranger to releasing landmark games having released Ms. Pac-Man, had started experimenting with the ideas two years earlier, with the High Impact Football series. Both High Impact and Super High Impact had somewhat average success in arcades. It was not until the release of NBA Jam that gamers noticed the new genre. The game became exceptionally popular, and generated a lot of money for arcades after its release, largely because of the fairly expensive prices put on these games; a game quarter generally took two credits and a full game generally took eight, typically equal to $2.00. Nonetheless, the game was a smash hit.

Basketball: Basketball is a ball sport in which, under organized rules, two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop....

Arcade game: An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, pubs, and video arcades. Most arcade games are video games or pinball machines....

Midway: Midway may refer to:...

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