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In this regard, during important moments in the history of video game design, we have already taken a look at Kid Icarus Nintendo, Electronic Arts Mirror's Edge, Raven Software's Soldier of Fortune 2 and many others. The purpose of this series is to go beyond simple gaming magazines and iPhone Apps , and a closer look at what defines memorability and quality game design. In this part twenty-sixth of the series, we examine a few more of those moments where the classic video game developers certainly made no mistake and gave a memorable gaming experience sustainable and progressive.

NBA Jam (Arcade) - Developed by Midway and made arcades in 1993, NBA Jam was forever changed people's expectations of sports games. Before NBA Jam, players of basketball have been awkward, robotics, poorly animated characters that displayed less than even a certain resemblance to their real life counterparts. With the introduction of digital representations NBA Jam, figures from real life (a technology also used successfully in the title of Midway another monster of the same year, Mortal Kombat), along with higher CPU and memory which allowed for more fluid animations, NBA Jam was by far the basketball game the most playable of all time when it was released. But beyond the simple gameplay, NBA Jam was a lot to offer fans of the arcade era.

For starters, NBA Jam is an important physical footprint in the arcades around the world. His firm was absolutely huge, a necessity given that it has allowed four players to participate in two-on-two confrontations. He also had a screen much bigger than most arcade machines at the time, and sounds the way to "attract" were apparently still close to maximum volume levels. Although all these decoys were successful at the trial between the players, the gameplay is real and the bonus that has kept players coming back for more.

Very well coded, the gameplay of NBA Jam is demonstrative of the phrase "one minute to learn, a lifetime to master. Not at all difficult to play, the delicate balance of knowing when to pass, shoot and how to play the defense has presented a perfect balance that very few players have been able to master, but all those who have tried. Phrases such as NBA Jam "is on fire!" (Players who sank three shots in a row without reply would then become "hot" that the ball would literally burst into flames ") and" Boom Shakka-Lakka " remain a part of pop culture to this day. An often overlooked feature of the game was its ability to store files player. By participating in their birth dates and initials, players may keep records of wins and losses, and try to defeat all teams in the game in several weeks or months rather than in a single session.

With all the NBA teams of the time, Jam is a fully licensed product. Yet this has not prevented the loading of the game developers with secret characters that could be selected by entering a specific combination of the anniversary and initials. hidden characters Raiden from Mortal Kombat to then President Bill Clinton have been buried in the code of the game these hidden characters added humor to the game is already superior game style, and helped keep players hum character codes newly discovered escape.

NBA Jam has opened a new era of sports video games. It showed that more realistic graphics are possible, and that over the top gameplay has its place in the genre. The game has friends to play together, provided many months of discovery and character proved beyond doubt that the sports games could lead to a large audience of gaming. To be the greatest arcade game of basketball all the time, NBA.