NBA Jam

NBA Jam is a series of arcade-style basketball games first developed and published by Midway Games in 1993. The rights to use the NBA Jam name were acquired by Acclaim Entertainment, who previously published the home ports of the first two games. Midway would continue to develop and publish games in the same vein as NBA Jam with various titles, beginning with NBA Hangtime in 1996. Following Acclaim's bankruptcy in 2004, the brand would lay dormant until being revived by Electronic Arts in 2010. The original Midway NBA Jam game is currently available from Arcade1Up.
==1992 (unused)==
Originally, the NBA wanted Midway to use the NBA Jam Session brand, which they were using for various NBA tie-ins at the time. Midway chose to shorten it to just NBA Jam, but remnants of the original name can still be seen in a few places, such as an unused logo in the game's code and on the game's copyright screen.
==1993-1995, 2020-present==
The original edition of NBA Jam was released in April of 1993. This logo would also be used on the arcade version of NBA Jam: Tournament Edition.
===NBA Jam: Tournament Edition (1995)===
An update for the game, NBA Jam: Tournament Edition, would be released in 1995. This version featured an updated roster and new features, such as three players on a team and a "Tournament" mode that turned off computer assistance.
==1994 (secondary)==
All ports of NBA Jam were published by Acclaim Entertainment. While in game the games continued to use a logo akin to the previous logo, the box art and promotional materials used a different logo with the NBA Jam text on a basketball.
==1995-1996 (primary), 1999-2001 (secondary)==
A revised flaming basketball logo, likely based on the previous logo, was used on the home ports of NBA Jam: Tournament Edition, once again published by Acclaim. Acclaim would gain the rights to use the NBA Jam brand from Midway after Tournament Edition's release, and would use the same flaming basketball logo on NBA Jam Extreme in 1996. Despite being replaced by the following logo with the release of NBA Jam 99, this logo (without the fire) would be used in NBA Jam 2001.
==1999-2002==
A more plain logo would be adopted for NBA Jam 99, and would be used through NBA Jam 2002.
==2003==
This logo would only be used on 2003's NBA Jam. This would be the last NBA Jam game published by Acclaim.
==2010-2011==
In 2010, Electronic Arts would gain the rights to the NBA Jam name; a reboot of the series would be released for Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 3. An enhanced version, NBA Jam: On Fire Edition, would be released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2011.
Category:Midway Games
Category:Acclaim Entertainment
Category:Electronic Arts
Category:EA Sports
Category:NBA
Category:NBA video games
Category:Video games
Category:Video games series
Category:Basketball video games
Category:1993
Category:1990s
Category:Arcade games
Category:NBA Jam (franchise)