We spent hours playing it, not caring who won or lost, but just trying to make the flashiest movies. Mostly, it was fun just trying to figure out how to trigger the various crazy dunks. I wasn't the biggest fan of sports titles at the time (I'm arguably still not), but I was willing to overlook most of my usual boredom with the genre in the name of flaming basketballs. When my friends and I rented the inevitable SNES port sometime later I finally got to try it out for myself. And what did I spy but my favorite players windmilling 50 feet into the air, slamming flaming basketballs into the hoop while an excitable announcer called the action. Keeping in mind that this was back in the midst of the NBA's heyday, when myself and millions of other kids religiously followed the sport. I was wandering through my local Aladdin's Castle (I was poor and couldn't afford to actually play anything, so I just had to watch), when I noticed some kind of crazy basketball game tucked back near the line for Mortal Kombat (or maybe it was Street Fighter II).
I'll still never forget the first time I saw an NBA Jam cabinet.
Hell, you're probably pissed that this isn't in the top 100.
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