Does EA own NBA jam engine ?

[sva91]

I honestly think EA would make more money selling a revamped nba jam than Live. Exact same engine as NBA hang-time/NBA Jam, but with updated graphics. Nba playgrounds just isn’t the same as nba jam.


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[GisherJohn24]

I think they own the rights . They should continue making Jam but not give up on Live . Jam is for arcade style fans, not necessarily appealing just to NBA fans. .

We need competition for the NBA. Makes publishers and devs work a little harder and set better standards

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[jugaaribros]

According to my opinion, Ea should own NBA Jam Engine. As, It will help them in future for sure!

[ILLSmak]

Jam is meh. Street needs to be remade. IMO the best arcade bball game ever. Even got my friends who were skaters into it cuz they liked to chain all the dribble tricks. haha, those game breakers. The Yeti. That game was fire.


Hard to imagine how it wouldn't be even better now.



Jam was good like back in 94. Loved the music. Loved the janky graphics. But Street was actually a good game. NBa Jam was like arch rivals level skill, or so it seemed to me.



Edit: rekt, gonna get banned for posting in this old thread. haha.




-Smak

[GisherJohn24]

nba STREET def needs to come back. I'd do anything to be able to play NBA Street 1 or Vol 2. Maybe we can dream...

[ILLSmak]

Quote: Originally Posted by GisherJohn24

nba STREET def needs to come back. I'd do anything to be able to play NBA Street 1 or Vol 2. Maybe we can dream...

I dunno if it's too far fetched. But that was the most 'different' bball game I ever played, while still keeping bball as a part of it. I remember just wetting 3s with Larry Bird to troll my friends who would try to do a bunch of tricks.



I'd def play a new version. I'm sure you can play the other ones. THERE ARE WAYS.



But that'd be a dream game for me. I'd love to see how it held up competitively 5 v 5. I don't think EA should ever abandon Live, but I wouldn't hate if they came out with a street style game like that.



That might be their ticket to money making, but I dunno. NBA Jam just has name recognition cuz it's a classic arcade game. People who played Street know that game was a classic.





-Smak

[BA2929]

Quote: Originally Posted by ILLSmak

That might be their ticket to money making, but I dunno. NBA Jam just has name recognition cuz it's a classic arcade game. People who played Street know that game was a classic.

Easy fix: Name it NBA Jam, but make it NBA Street. Just say it's a "fresh new take on NBA Jam" but secretly all of us old folks know it's NBA Street.

Best of both worlds.


We used to run the student union back in college with NBA Street v1. They had a PS2 hooked up and me and my buddy Jamal used to own all comers with our John Stockton/Karl Malone tandem.