NBA Jam coming to the Nintendo Wii?

[T.O.]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/61809

With EA Sports set to announce a mysterious "new game" sometime this month, the rumors continue to fly, with the latest pointing not to football, but basketball.
Citing "sources confirmed," ESPN reports that EA Sports has acquired the rights to the NBA Jam series and is readying a new Wii-exclusive entry. The long-lost over-the-top balling franchise, which emerged out of Midway in 1993, has laid dormant since 2003, when Acclaim produced a PlayStation 2 and Xbox entry simply titled "NBA Jam."

But while Acclaim and Midway both produced entries in the nearly twenty-year-old franchise, it seems the NBA itself has retained ownership of the "NBA Jam" property.

Of course, Destructoid recently chimed in, claiming that EA's "new game" is a Wii football trainer, but that doesn't automatically disprove either rumor. After all, EA Sports certainly has more than one unannounced project in the works, and one rumor specifies a revival of an existing franchise, while another points to a new property. Regardless of what happens, though, let's just hope the "boom," "shaka" and "laka" remain intact.

This needs to happen. NEEDS to happen.

Imagine the sick duos you can use nowadays. A Superman/Vinsanity combo would be insane.

[Rogue]

Peirce/Garnett?

Lebron/Shaq?

Kobe/Gasol?

Paul/West?

Westbrook/Durant?

Billups/Anthony?

Wade/Beasley?

Nash/Stoudamire?

Kidd/Dirk?

Smith/Johnson?


Ooooooo-wwweeeeeeeee this could be good.

[Son of Repoman]

As long as they throw in some legends and I get back my duo of Malone/Stockton, I will dominate.

[T.O.]

They absolutely have to get the announcer back too.

HE'S ON FIRE!

[Mentoch the Mindtaker]

I've always wondered why they havent just remade NBA Jam every single year but with updated rosters. IMO every other basketball game is really dull and boring, but Jam had it right.

I loved that announcer, he was the best.

"Wide Open!!!"

"He's Heating Up"

"Boom-Shakala"

[MissouriDragon]

Originally Posted by Son of Repoman

As long as they throw in some legends and I get back my duo of Malone/Stockton, I will dominate.

My Hornets team of Grandmama and Kendall Gill beg to differ. I remember Clyde Drexler being all kinds of kick-ass too. This and Goldeneye had to be the controller-throwin'est games ever made.

[Smart_Mark]

I'm not a basketball fan, but I'm convinced the SNES game was made out of crack-cocaine. Did anyone else use the sweet spot on the hard camera side of the goal to sink 3's? I'd make about 85%. Also, if they can get Clinton in the old game, they should put Obama in the next one.