NBA Video Games Online Meet-Ups and Discussions

[retrosportsgamer]

Back to twitter harrassing:

retrosportsgmr Mr. Retro Sports

@nbajam Where is Allen Iverson? You treat us with Andres Freakin' Nocioni but no unlockable AI?

[Weekend_Warrior]

The online play of this new NBA Jam game may be great but the single player game sucks.

Do you mean the AI/difficulty or the single player modes? I kind of like the road trip as it has quick matches for medals and points. Really works for ADD gamers. I love unlocking stuff and since I had the disc-based game for the 360, I didn't get $15,000 up front. I'm working through to 100% on that piece of the game.

I can't believe that I seem to be the only person pissed off at being stuck on the right side of the court during all the games in Road Trip mode! In all the old NBA Jam games, Player 1 always started on the left side of the court no matter if you were home or away. Also, didn't you usually switch sides after halftime? It doesn't happen with the offline play, only during the online games. I mean... wtf?

[retrosportsgamer]

Good Racket Boy gaming last night - but I need to confirm with 7o7, was it set on easy as difficulty? That could explain 15 3's by Erik. Nobody missed on either team. We need to boost that!

[dsheinem]

I should be able to play tonight for a bit - last night was no good!

[retrosportsgamer]

I should be able to play tonight for a bit - last night was no good!

We missed you as ZenErik just held down the L1 button all game so the cpu went crazy knocking us both around to clear him space to shoot threes. He got 7o7 and I a couple times

108 shoves the one game for Garnett too.

[ZenErik]

Also makes my AI teammate less good being on easy.

[sevin0seven]

Good Racket Boy gaming last night - but I need to confirm with 7o7, was it set on easy as difficulty? That could explain 15 3's by Erik. Nobody missed on either team. We need to boost that!

the difficulty was set on medium (first 5 - 6 games). all i remember from last night was when we played as the Bulls team (Pippen and Rose) and dominated both ends of the floor on that one game. i want to further improve that.

Also makes my AI teammate less good being on easy.

..but you still control it's mind on defense by that L1 button.

[retrosportsgamer]

Suggestions for which team/player combo to use to defeat the Celtics Gold challenge (3pters are 4 pts, 2's are 3 pts and Dunks are 1 pt)? I generally like to play the road map on a challenging difficulty but this one is tough against Bird/Allen.

I gave Curry/Ellis a ride and lost - think I need to go back to my new standard - Iggy and Dr. J.

[retrosportsgamer]

Random NBA chat - totally forgot that Shaq was in the original arcade NBA Jam.

This also me:

Some earlier cartridges of the SNES, Sega Genesis, and Sega Game Gear versions have Charles Barkley and Kevin Johnson on the Phoenix Suns; however, later versions replaced Barkley with Dan Majerle because Midway lost the rights to include Barkley when Accolade developed Barkley Shut Up and Jam!.

I believe most of my versions have Barkley.

Arcade question for the group - NBA Maximum Hangtime, a follow up from NBA Hangtime was an Arcade only upgrade. Is this on MAME or has anyone ever seen it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Hangti ... m_Hangtime

[sevin0seven]

Arcade question for the group - NBA Maximum Hangtime, a follow up from NBA Hangtime was an Arcade only upgrade. Is this on MAME or has anyone ever seen it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Hangti ... m_Hangtime

yes it's on MAME.

edit: updated post title.