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** Saber Interactive followed the game up with ''VideoGame/NBAPlaygrounds'' which included equally cartoony gameplay and physics.
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** Saber Interactive followed the game up with ''VideoGame/NBAPlaygrounds'' which included equally cartoony gameplay and physics.physics as well as the ability to make dream teams with past and current (to time of release) players.
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** Saber Interactive followed the game up with ''VideoGame/NBAPlaygrounds'' which included equally cartoony gameplay and physics.
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* SpiritualSuccessor:
** ''NBA Jam'' itself could be seen as a spiritual successor to ''Arch Rivals'', which debuted a few years earlier and [[TropeCodifier popularized]] the concept of arcade-style 2-on-2 basketball.
** After Midway lost the ''NBA Jam'' name to Acclaim in the mid '90s, they released a series of games with different names. First came ''NBA Hangtime'', which added a create-a-player mode and refined the gameplay elements, then ''[[UpdatedRerelease NBA Maximum Hangtime]]'' refined things even further. ''NBA Showtime'' then took the series into 3D, ''[[XtremeKoolLetterz NBA Hoopz]]'' made it 3-on-3 as opposed to the 2-on-2 of previous games, then the ''VideoGame/NBABallers'' series added extra "bling". Then, EA Sports got the license, which was well-received.
** Midway also applied the ''NBA Jam'' formula of "loose adherence to the rules and fast-paced gameplay" to other sports games. The best example of this is the ''VideoGame/NFLBlitz'' series (with 7-a-side teams and 30-yard first downs and [[WrestlerInAllOfUs suplexes and leg drops on downed players between plays]]. After EA gained exclusivity of the NFL license, Midway succeeded it with ''Blitz: The League'', which ramped the violence aspect of ''NFL Blitz'' up to eleven[[note]]EA would later release their own classic-formula ''NFL Blitz'' in the wake of the success of their ''NBA Jam''[[/note]]). Midway also did it with hockey (''NHL 2 On 2 Open Ice Challenge'', ''Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey'', and ''NHL Hitz''). More Midway-style interpretation of other sports includes soccer (''Red Card Soccer 20-02'', in which Zidane can headbutt players a few years before he committed the deed in real life), baseball (''MLB Slugfest''), golf (''Skins Game''), combat sports (''VideoGame/Ready2RumbleBoxing'', ''VideoGame/WWFWrestleManiaTheArcadeGame'') and motorsport (''CART Fury'').
** Every game in EA's ''[[VideoGame/EASportsStreet Street]]'' series took a lot of cues from ''Jam'', though ''NBA Street'' is the obvious spiritual successor, to the point that Stretch was included in EA's ''Jam'' revival.
** ''NBA Jam'' itself could be seen as a spiritual successor to ''Arch Rivals'', which debuted a few years earlier and [[TropeCodifier popularized]] the concept of arcade-style 2-on-2 basketball.
** After Midway lost the ''NBA Jam'' name to Acclaim in the mid '90s, they released a series of games with different names. First came ''NBA Hangtime'', which added a create-a-player mode and refined the gameplay elements, then ''[[UpdatedRerelease NBA Maximum Hangtime]]'' refined things even further. ''NBA Showtime'' then took the series into 3D, ''[[XtremeKoolLetterz NBA Hoopz]]'' made it 3-on-3 as opposed to the 2-on-2 of previous games, then the ''VideoGame/NBABallers'' series added extra "bling". Then, EA Sports got the license, which was well-received.
** Midway also applied the ''NBA Jam'' formula of "loose adherence to the rules and fast-paced gameplay" to other sports games. The best example of this is the ''VideoGame/NFLBlitz'' series (with 7-a-side teams and 30-yard first downs and [[WrestlerInAllOfUs suplexes and leg drops on downed players between plays]]. After EA gained exclusivity of the NFL license, Midway succeeded it with ''Blitz: The League'', which ramped the violence aspect of ''NFL Blitz'' up to eleven[[note]]EA would later release their own classic-formula ''NFL Blitz'' in the wake of the success of their ''NBA Jam''[[/note]]). Midway also did it with hockey (''NHL 2 On 2 Open Ice Challenge'', ''Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey'', and ''NHL Hitz''). More Midway-style interpretation of other sports includes soccer (''Red Card Soccer 20-02'', in which Zidane can headbutt players a few years before he committed the deed in real life), baseball (''MLB Slugfest''), golf (''Skins Game''), combat sports (''VideoGame/Ready2RumbleBoxing'', ''VideoGame/WWFWrestleManiaTheArcadeGame'') and motorsport (''CART Fury'').
** Every game in EA's ''[[VideoGame/EASportsStreet Street]]'' series took a lot of cues from ''Jam'', though ''NBA Street'' is the obvious spiritual successor, to the point that Stretch was included in EA's ''Jam'' revival.
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* MemeticMutation:
** "BOOM SHAKALAKA!"
** "He's heating up... He's ON FIRE!!!" The latter has even been recreated as [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/moerder/all-time-greatest-beer-pong-house-rules a rule in Beer Pong]].
** "BOOM SHAKALAKA!"
** "He's heating up... He's ON FIRE!!!" The latter has even been recreated as [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/moerder/all-time-greatest-beer-pong-house-rules a rule in Beer Pong]].
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* MemeticMutation:
**MemeticMutation: Pretty much all of Tim Kitzrow's AnnouncerChatter, especially "BOOM SHAKALAKA!"
**SHAKALAKA!" and "He's heating up... He's ON FIRE!!!" The latter has even been recreated as [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/moerder/all-time-greatest-beer-pong-house-rules a rule in Beer Pong]].FIRE!!!"
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* PortingDisaster: The Game Boy versions of the first two games, which suffered from wonky controls[[note]]which, to be fair, weren't entirely the fault of the game itself as the Game Boy had only two buttons[[/note]], weak graphics, and poor artificial intelligence.
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** In the 2010 version, "Dr. J" Julius Erving. For the other boss battles, there's clear strategies to beat them. The Dr. J boss battle though, due to the rules of the match and lack of clear strategy, is incredibly difficult. Beating him requires you to pace yourself scoring and, for when he ''does'' have the ball, to be good at blocking.
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** In the 2010 version, "Dr. J" Julius Erving. For the other boss battles, there's clear strategies to beat them. The Dr. J boss battle though, due to the rules of the match and lack of clear strategy, is incredibly difficult. Beating him requires you to pace yourself while scoring and, and to be good at blocking for when he ''does'' have the ball, to be good at blocking.ball.
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** If you want a major challenge, try playing against Dwayne Wade and [=LeBron=] James. ''They will kill you''.
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** If you want a major challenge, try playing against Dwayne Wade and [=LeBron=] James. ''They will kill you''.you''.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Midway was forced by the NBA to remove the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' characters from the arcade version due to the gory content of that franchise. The 2010 game freely features [[VideoGame/DeadSpace Issac Clarke]], whose home series is '''''[[{{Hypocrite}} just as violent]]'''''.
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* GameplayDerailment / EmergentGameplay: Because the original game allowed "Prison Rules" where you could repeatedly knock down players (and not receive penalties for it), this allowed some interesting "House rules" in which the actual game is secondary:
** Free for all for the Arcade - in which four players try to repeatedly knock each other over. Because this makes them weaker, a player would them find it harder to play the actual basketball game, so in order to remain competitive they have to swap. First person to swap loses, or person who swaps the ''least'' loses.
*** Alternatively, first half of the game is everyone just repeatedly ganging on each other... then the second half is played "Clean", but with the weakened players from the first half brawl.
** Pick a player being played by the AI. Any player. Your goal is to gang up on them and to try and make them get swapped out at half time.
** 1.5 v 1.5 - both players pick ''one'' player as their champion, then repeatedly weaken the two players designated to be the "0.5" player.
** Free for all for the Arcade - in which four players try to repeatedly knock each other over. Because this makes them weaker, a player would them find it harder to play the actual basketball game, so in order to remain competitive they have to swap. First person to swap loses, or person who swaps the ''least'' loses.
*** Alternatively, first half of the game is everyone just repeatedly ganging on each other... then the second half is played "Clean", but with the weakened players from the first half brawl.
** Pick a player being played by the AI. Any player. Your goal is to gang up on them and to try and make them get swapped out at half time.
** 1.5 v 1.5 - both players pick ''one'' player as their champion, then repeatedly weaken the two players designated to be the "0.5" player.
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* BrokenBase: The Nintendo 64 "Jam" games for their heavy sim leanings (although Jam 2000 did include a 2-on-2 "Jam Mode" that was relatively faithful to the classic Jam games).
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** In the 2010 version, "Dr. J" Julius Erving. For the other boss battles, there's clear strategies to beat them. The Dr. J boss battle though, due to the rules of the match and lack of clear strategy, is incredibly difficult. Beating him requires you to pace yourself scoring and, for when he DOES have the ball, to be good at blocking.
** If you want a major challenge, try playing against Dwayne Wade and Lebron James. THEY WILL KILL YOU.
** If you want a major challenge, try playing against Dwayne Wade and Lebron James. THEY WILL KILL YOU.
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** In the 2010 version, "Dr. J" Julius Erving. For the other boss battles, there's clear strategies to beat them. The Dr. J boss battle though, due to the rules of the match and lack of clear strategy, is incredibly difficult. Beating him requires you to pace yourself scoring and, for when he DOES ''does'' have the ball, to be good at blocking.
** If you want a major challenge, try playing against Dwayne Wade andLebron [=LeBron=] James. THEY WILL KILL YOU.''They will kill you''.
** If you want a major challenge, try playing against Dwayne Wade and
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** The boss battle music for "The Mailman" Karl Malone, Shaq Diesel, and Dr. J for ElectronicArts' game.
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** The boss battle music for "The Mailman" Karl Malone, Shaq Diesel, and Dr. J for ElectronicArts' Creator/ElectronicArts' game.
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* FridgeBrilliance: The Phoenix Suns' roster in the recent game is like that because the real life Suns are known for playing "small-ball" and since they're NBA Jam 2010 line-up will have Steve Nash, Grant Hill, Jason Richardson, Kevin Johnson, and Dan Majerle (who are all guards in the NBA)...
* MemeticMutation: "BOOM SHAKALAKA!"
** "He's heating up... He's ON FIRE!!!"
*** The latter has even been recreated as [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/moerder/all-time-greatest-beer-pong-house-rules a rule in Beer Pong]].
* [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Music of Awesome]]: The boss battle music for "The Mailman" Karl Malone, Shaq Diesel, and Dr. J for ElectronicArts' game.
* MemeticMutation: "BOOM SHAKALAKA!"
** "He's heating up... He's ON FIRE!!!"
*** The latter has even been recreated as [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/moerder/all-time-greatest-beer-pong-house-rules a rule in Beer Pong]].
* [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Music of Awesome]]: The boss battle music for "The Mailman" Karl Malone, Shaq Diesel, and Dr. J for ElectronicArts' game.
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* FridgeBrilliance: The Phoenix Suns' roster in the recent game is like that because the real life Suns are known for playing "small-ball" and since they're NBA Jam 2010 line-up will have Steve Nash, Grant Hill, Jason Richardson, Kevin Johnson, and Dan Majerle (who are all guards in the NBA)...
* MemeticMutation: "BOOM SHAKALAKA!"
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**"He's heating up... He's ON FIRE!!!"
*** The latter has even been recreated as [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/moerder/all-time-greatest-beer-pong-house-rules a rule in Beer Pong]].
* [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Music of Awesome]]:The boss battle music for "The Mailman" Karl Malone, Shaq Diesel, and Dr. J for ElectronicArts' game.
* MemeticMutation: "BOOM SHAKALAKA!"
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*** The latter has even been recreated as [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/moerder/all-time-greatest-beer-pong-house-rules a rule in Beer Pong]].
* [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Music of Awesome]]:
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* ThatOneBoss: In the 2010 version, "Dr. J" Julius Erving. For the other boss battles, there's clear strategies to beat them. The Dr. J boss battle though, due to the rules of the match and lack of clear strategy, is incredibly difficult. Beating him requires you to pace yourself scoring and, for when he DOES have the ball, to be good at blocking.
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* ThatOneBoss: FridgeBrilliance: The Phoenix Suns' roster in the 2010 game is like that because the real life Suns are known for playing "small-ball" and since their ''NBA Jam 2010'' line-up has Steve Nash, Grant Hill, Jason Richardson, Kevin Johnson, and Dan Majerle (who are all guards in the NBA)...
* MemeticMutation:
** "BOOM SHAKALAKA!"
** "He's heating up... He's ON FIRE!!!" The latter has even been recreated as [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/moerder/all-time-greatest-beer-pong-house-rules a rule in Beer Pong]].
* ThatOneBoss:
** In the 2010 version, "Dr. J" Julius Erving. For the other boss battles, there's clear strategies to beat them. The Dr. J boss battle though, due to the rules of the match and lack of clear strategy, is incredibly difficult. Beating him requires you to pace yourself scoring and, for when he DOES have the ball, to be good at blocking.
* MemeticMutation:
** "BOOM SHAKALAKA!"
** "He's heating up... He's ON FIRE!!!" The latter has even been recreated as [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/moerder/all-time-greatest-beer-pong-house-rules a rule in Beer Pong]].
* ThatOneBoss:
** In the 2010 version, "Dr. J" Julius Erving. For the other boss battles, there's clear strategies to beat them. The Dr. J boss battle though, due to the rules of the match and lack of clear strategy, is incredibly difficult. Beating him requires you to pace yourself scoring and, for when he DOES have the ball, to be good at blocking.
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