NBA Showtime for PlayStation 1

Pros: High flying dunks, easy controls, ally-op feature, and it's the old NBA Jam style.
Cons: Unoriginal, and the computer AI.

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Pie, pie, me oh my, I like pie, but definitely not as much as NBA ShowTime! By the way, this review is part of ss3goku's Pie W/O. The write-off is on any game that is better then pie. I hope that answers your questions on why I refer to pie...

Pros: Create-a-Player, character animations, NBC licensed
Cons: Same ol NBA JAM engine, characters faces are disturbing, nothing new

There are some things in life that will never die. You can either love them or hate them, but these things will never go away, no matter how bad you want them to, they are here to stay and there is nothing you can do about it. Just take for instance...

Pros: NBA Jam Style action, nice looking graphics.
Cons: If you're tired of NBA Jam, or want realism, it's not your game.

I think I got a copy of this to review from Midway...it's been so long ago, I'd nearly forgotten about it. Anyway, NBA Showtime picks up where NBA Jam left off. In the early 90's NBA Jam was the coolest basketball game out there. It was great...

Pros: Fast, Fun Arcade Action, 4 player
Cons: Pushing is actually a major strategy of this game. Freethrows aren't

(In a cool Singing Voice to the NBA on NBC Theme Music): EEEEN BEEEEEE YAAAAA: Showtime! Da da de de da de de de (and so forth...)
I have always been a big fan of the NBA JAM/HANGTIME and now Showtime games from MIDWAY. They fill the gap for those...

Pros: Flawless arcade conversion
Cons: Nothing new added; single-player mode gets old after a while

NBA Showtime brings the arcade experience home with excellent graphics, sound, and gameplay; however, the arcade experience is all that the game has to offer. Granted, it is cheaper to buy a Dreamcast and this game than it is to buy the arcade original,...

Pros: Great party game, excellent create-a-player, superb graphics and controls
Cons: VERY repetitive, boring one-player mode

THE OLD MAN FOR THREE!!! This is the exclamatory remark I've heard oh so too many times from the anonymous announcer of NBA Showtime. When one takes a first glance at Showtime, they can't help but think of NBA Jam, since, well, this essentially IS NBA...

Pros: Graphics, Dunks and Multi-Player
Cons: Trying to rebound a loose ball

Lets get this straight this is no simulation game. If you want a realistic game stick to NBA2K. This game is made by the same people who made NFL Blitz 2000. So you know what to expect, this game is a 3 button madness at its best. You can consider this...

Pros: Somewhat better dunks...and that's about it
Cons: Everything but the dunks

I've been a long-time fanatic of NBA Jam...well, at least the first few versions (NBA Jam, NBA Jam: TE, NBA Hangtime). After NBA Extreme came out, I lost the love for it up until NBA Hangtime...the game I still think is the pinnacle of the whole series....

Pros: Good multiplayer action
Cons: Horrible load times, too hard AI

To repeat: Load times make any game bad. This is my theory and it has worked well for me thus far in life. This is why I don't use my Playstation much at all. Load times drive me nuts. This game has awful, and quite unecessary, load times that force...

Pros: Fast-paced action, friendly control, fun for all... finally, Shaq makes it to a home console in something other than Shaq-Fu
Cons: Too fast at times to follow the action, still no shattered backboard, and what seems like unnecessary load time, cheap AI, NBA2K is better suited to B-ball fans

NBA Jam... say this game title in a room full of people in their early twenties and you're sure to turn a few heads. This game, known for spectacular (at the time) digitized graphics and effects (characters got smaller as you moved further from...

Pros: fun fun fun
Cons: graphics could be better on dc

In NBA Showtime, you can select from over 130 real NBA players, or a plethora of secret, goofy characters, and go head to head against the computer or up to three friends in a furious-paced two-on-two match up. There's also a great create-a-player...

Pros: fun if you have 3 other friends over
Cons: collects dust

This game is overrated. I have owned it for 2 days and it is already tiresome. This is nothing more than a faintly souped up version of NBA Jam. Nevertheless, it is still fun to play with friends. That is why it gets 2 stars. When I am alone, I find it...

Pros: Hey, it's NBA Jam
Cons: Hey, it's NBA Jam

Try to cover up the name, NBA Hangtime, NBA Showtime whatever, it all boils down to the fact that this game was born as NBA Jam. Jam was the first four player game that really involved everyone, it helped make four player games almost standard.

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Pros: Quality Game
Cons: Still not as good as NBA2K

If there"s one thing that Dreamcast systems can do extremely well, it"s bringing home the arcade experience. Following up on their launch release of NFL Blitz 2000, Midway and Avalanche throw down the jams in NBA Showtime.

For the...

Pros: It was programmed very well, and will last the test of time...at least for a little while :)
Cons: There are a few glitches every now and then, allowing one to realize that it is a game and not reality.

You Dribble this way, and you dribble that way...but where does it get ya...? Either a LOT of slobber on the shirt :) or a LOT of time in front of a TV! Out of the two, I'd rather be spending the time in front of the tv...of course you could do...