NBA Jam Tournament Edition

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NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Image:Nbajam te.jpg
Developer(s)Midway
Publisher(s)Acclaim Entertainment
Released1994
GenreSports
Mode(s)Up to 4 players simultaneously
Platform(s)Arcade, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, Game Boy, Sega CD, Sega 32X, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar
Input methods8-way Joystick, 3 buttons
Arcade cabinetUpright
Arcade systemMidway T Unit
Arcade displayRaster, horizontal orientation, 400x254 resolution

NBA Jam Tournament Edition (commonly referred to as NBA Jam T.E.) is a basketball arcade game created by Midway in 1994 as a sequel to the hit game NBA Jam. The game featured rosters from the 1993-94 NBA season. The console versions follow the 1994-95 NBA season, with updated rosters and team logos. Impressively, the entire game was coded in assembly and features more new features and easter eggs combined with the same gameplay as it's predecessor. Console versions were well known for featuring tons of easter eggs; the home versions of Jam T.E. let the play use a variety of characters who were not NBA players but athletes from others sports such as the Chicago White Sox baseball player Frank Thomas, Philadelphia Eagles football player Randall Cunningham and also play using non athletes including actors and musicians such as Heavy D, the Fresh Prince, Jazzy Jeff and the Beastie Boys. The game even allowed a gamer to use then-U.S. President Bill Clinton, then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, or then-Vice President Al Gore (and Atari's Vice President of Software Development Leonard Tramiel on the Atari Jaguar version) as well as the Crown Prince of England, Prince Charles. To access these special 'Bonus Players' required a use of inputing cheat codes to do so.[1] The early arcade versions (<3.0) even allowed players to choose from hidden Mortal Kombat characters (Raiden, Reptile and Sub-Zero).[2]

Contents

[edit] Features

  • Baby, Giant and Big Head modes
  • Secret Players and codes
  • Over 120 NBA stars
  • 9 point shots from the Hot Spots
  • Super Jam Power-ups
  • Rookie and All-Star teams
  • 3-5 players per team
  • Same team match-ups
  • Substitutions after every quarter
  • Tournament mode
  • Injuries and fatigue factor
  • 8 player attributes

[edit] Featured teams and players

Players listed in italic are part of the "expanded roster", unlocked after defeating all 27 NBA teams in Tournament Mode, which adds additional players to each team. Also, the 17-player Rookies team is replaced by a 24-player All-Star team.

  • Other teams
    • Rookies: Bill Curley, Yinka Dare, Tony Dumas, Grant Hill, Eddie Jones, Jason Kidd, Donyell Marshall, Aaron McKie, Eric Mobley, Eric Montross, Wesley Person, Khalid Reeves, Glenn Robinson, Jalen Rose, Brooks Thompson, Monty Williams and Sharone Wright
    • All-Stars: Kenny Anderson, B.J. Armstrong, Mookie Blaylock, Derrick Coleman, Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Horace Grant, Kevin Johnson, Shawn Kemp, Karl Malone, Danny Manning, Alonzo Mourning, Charles Oakley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Gary Payton, Scottie Pippen, Mark Price, Mitch Richmond, Clifford Robinson, David Robinson, Latrell Sprewell, John Starks, John Stockton, Dominique Wilkins

[edit] Conflict

Due to contractual obligations from having their own video games and/or acting in the movies, several players were not allowed to be featured in NBA Jam T.E. Chief among those barred from appearing in the game were Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, and Charles Barkley.

Due to controversy surrounding the violence in videogames debate in the early 1990s, the Mortal Kombat characters were eventually removed from the game by request of the NBA in later revisions of the arcade games.

[edit] Game history

[edit] Midway history

Title Year Platforms
NBA Ballers: Phenom 2006 Playstation 2, Xbox
NBA Ballers 2004 Playstation 2, Xbox
NBA Hoopz 2001 PlayStation 2, Dreamcast
NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC 1999 Arcade, PlayStation, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64
NBA Maximum Hangtime 1996 Arcade
NBA Hangtime 1996 Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Sega Genesis,
Super NES, Arcade, Windows
NBA Jam Tournament Edition 1994 Arcade, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis,
Sega Game Gear, Game Boy, Sega CD,
Sega 32X, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar
NBA Jam 1993 Arcade, Super NES, Sega Genesis,
Sega Game Gear, Game Boy, Sega CD
Preceded by
NBA Jam 		NBA games designed by Midway
NBA Jam Tournament Edition 		Succeeded by
NBA Hangtime

[edit] Acclaim history

Title Year Platforms
NBA Jam 2003 2003 PlayStation 2, Xbox
NBA Jam 2002 2001 Game Boy Advance
NBA Jam 2000 1999 Nintendo 64
NBA Jam '99 1998 Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color
NBA Jam Extreme 1996 PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Microsoft Windows
NBA Jam Tournament Edition 1994 Arcade, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis,
Sega Game Gear, Game Boy, Sega CD,
Sega 32X, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar
NBA Jam 1993 Arcade, Super NES, Sega Genesis,
Sega Game Gear, Game Boy, Sega CD
Preceded by
NBA Jam 		NBA Games By Acclaim
NBA Jam Tournament Edition 		Succeeded by
NBA Jam Extreme

[edit] External links

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Midway NBA basketball games
GamesNBA Jam  · NBA Jam T.E.  · NBA Hangtime  · NBA Maximum Hangtime  · NBA Showtime: NBA on NBC  · NBA Hoopz  · NBA Ballers  · NBA Ballers: Phenom
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Acclaim's NBA Jam video games
GamesNBA Jam · NBA Jam T.E. · NBA Jam Extreme · NBA Jam '99 · NBA Jam 2000 · NBA Jam 2002 · NBA Jam (2003)
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