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Double Dribble = Best Basketball Game EVER!!??
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alkaline black said:
God yes. I'm really not that big of a basketball fan, but it was hard to ignore In The Zone 2.
There ya go. In the Zone. It wasn't a great game but it had some cool features for a b ball game released at that time. I loved the fact that you could change your shot in mid air. That game just ran smoother than any other game released at that time.
"He brings the THHUUNDERRR!!!"JoeBroni said:Double Dribble was/is awesome. Fade away trey-bombs = gaming goodness. We used to have some intense tournaments with this in High School. I was pretty middle-of-the-road skills wise, but for one glorious week I was the undisputed DD champ. Good times.
Another bball game I loved that never got much run was Slam N Jam for the 3DO:
It wasn't licensed but the teams basically mapped over their NBA counterparts. Lenoard Lanning was more Scottie Pippen than Pippen ever was.
Davidion said:
Well, I can't tell ya explicitly...
But I will say this: it's rather easy to be a hustler, if you just know where to look.
And don't forget to look out for the new Dodge Ball game coming to a DS near you. In the mean while, here are some youtube vids that hopefully will do more to demonstrate why Dunk Heroes is such an awesome game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Y5gDlCCHA - "Tutorial" some one whipped up. Watch the onscreen PAD graphic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NQCfavxxCI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNABE8GJw9o&feature=related
A Black Falcon
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SummaGGL said:
Yeah, NBA Jam T.E. was the best basketball game ever. After that they started messing up the series with either no additions or unwanted features, but T.E. pretty much had it perfect... plus, I loved the options like powerups and hotspots. And turbo mode -- X4 speed NBA Jam is awesome...
TreIII said:
There's an ice hockey-game in that series as well, but it never came out even though it was fully developed. Or it might be that it was released in limited quantities in Japan, and an English version was made but never released. I don't remember. It's one of the "holy grails" of 8-bit collecting.
A Black Falcon said:Yeah, NBA Jam T.E. was the best basketball game ever. After that they started messing up the series with either no additions or unwanted features, but T.E. pretty much had it perfect... plus, I loved the options like powerups and hotspots. And turbo mode -- X4 speed NBA Jam is awesome...
You should really play NBA Showtime. It pretty much takes everything they did in TE but balanced it more. You still have to put in the tournament mode code to take away the rubber band though.
They did, actually!
And everyone complained that it was too much like the original NBA Jams :lol Then again, they DID release it shortly after NBA Street Vol.2, which at the time had killed just about everything else.
BravoSuperStar
Member
I always preferred Run & Gun 2 to NBA jam games.
A Black Falcon
Member
alkaline black said:
I have Showtime for DC... they removed the turbo mode (x1/x2/x4 speed), hotspots, and powerups from the option menu. They probably are still accessible with cheatcodes (activated by which buttons you press in the loading screen), but that's a much more annoying way to have to get to them... plus, you have to enter a password every time you want to use your player file! Annoying... and besides the graphics, roster update, and create-a-player mode, it had nothing that TE didn't. I thought TE was still the better game overall.
thomaser said:
"Ike! Ike! Ice Challenge" was indeed planned to be released in the States at one point (underneath the "Crash n Da Boyz" heading), but for whatever reason, Technos USA dropped the ball, and both Ice Challenge and Super Dodge Ball SNES were never given US releases, despite the notion that they seemed to have working translations that were advertised on the back of game boxes and in Nintendo Power.
A shame too...there were a lot of high quality Kunio games that never got over here. It's thanks to the fans that there exist ways to pretty much play the games in English through other means...
domokunrox
Banned
I'm going to have to disagree and mention NBA jam.
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
The best part of the game was shooting the automatic 3 pointer from the corner. Then having your player float in midair back and forth just so you could release it right.
Takeda Kenshi
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That Kunio-Kun basketball game looks badass...
But I need to give the nod to NBA Jam TE. Loved that frickin game.
But I need to give the nod to NBA Jam TE. Loved that frickin game.
Hard to say if it is the greatest of all time, but it is definitely the most played basketball game ever for me. Me and my friends would play small tournaments between 5 or 6 people. I use tear my friends up for a couple weeks, but they caught on to my team and players. There was a couple guys who would always hit a 3 pointer from a couple spots, they wouldnt miss. :lol We would rotate Double Dribble, Blades of Steel and Tecmo Bowl. Good times.
I had this game on NES, Magic Johnson's fast-break.
From what I could gather, Magic Johnson starred as all 4 players, the coach, and the ref, since a full screen picture of his floating head would tell me what to improve on, and announce "that's a foul." to me with a big smile.
The chance of a shot going in was the same for every point within half-court. This includes dunks, which were really just jump shots right next to the basket. I only knew if it was a dunk if Magic Johnson's floating head told me it was. Even as a young kid I could still identify how very crappy the game was.
From what I could gather, Magic Johnson starred as all 4 players, the coach, and the ref, since a full screen picture of his floating head would tell me what to improve on, and announce "that's a foul." to me with a big smile.
The chance of a shot going in was the same for every point within half-court. This includes dunks, which were really just jump shots right next to the basket. I only knew if it was a dunk if Magic Johnson's floating head told me it was. Even as a young kid I could still identify how very crappy the game was.
Starchasing
Member
No one ever played TV Sports Basketball??? 
Kestastrophe
Member
2K and 2K1 were simply awesome games. The character customization was so much fun, you could create the most ridiculous looking players (i.e. stick calves, balloon thighs, etc.). The announcers would always use nicknames of players too (i.e. Corliss Williamson=Big Nasty, Jason Williams=White Chocolate). Most importantly though, the game looked and controlled great.
Augemitbutter
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they were awesome for sure.
i remember renting the game quite a few times, as it was the best BB game around. its my most played basketball game to date, because i lost interest and basketball sucks.
i remember renting the game quite a few times, as it was the best BB game around. its my most played basketball game to date, because i lost interest and basketball sucks.
Sato Koiji
Member
You are all wrong.
The best BAsketball game is NBA HAAANG TIIIIME!!!!!!
That was sick. Especially the 1000 fire ball planet blast combo.
The best BAsketball game is NBA HAAANG TIIIIME!!!!!!
That was sick. Especially the 1000 fire ball planet blast combo.
JoeBroni said:Double Dribble was/is awesome. Fade away trey-bombs = gaming goodness. We used to have some intense tournaments with this in High School. I was pretty middle-of-the-road skills wise, but for one glorious week I was the undisputed DD champ. Good times.
Another bball game I loved that never got much run was Slam N Jam for the 3DO:
It wasn't licensed but the teams basically mapped over their NBA counterparts. Lenoard Lanning was more Scottie Pippen than Pippen ever was.
I loved double dribble... the three from the top corner was WATER everytime.... with the BOOM sound to go with it
ALso
that 3DO game was All types of awesome, my boys had it and I played it everyday.
Tecmo NBA basketball was another great
pete_clarf
Member
Sorry for resurrecting an 8.5 year old thread, but Double Dribble is still pretty fun!
I found an old NES and the cables in my closet when I was cleaning stuff out yesterday. I went and picked up a controller and the cheapest game I could find to make sure it still worked. That cheap game was Double Dribble. I played through an entire game (everything works!) and was surprised how easily it all came back to me. It has to have been at least 25 years since I last played it. I played on Level 1 with 5-minute quarters and won 97-39.
I found an old NES and the cables in my closet when I was cleaning stuff out yesterday. I went and picked up a controller and the cheapest game I could find to make sure it still worked. That cheap game was Double Dribble. I played through an entire game (everything works!) and was surprised how easily it all came back to me. It has to have been at least 25 years since I last played it. I played on Level 1 with 5-minute quarters and won 97-39.
schwabdizzle
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The_Hitcher89
Member
So Idle Thumbs could say it in that funny voice
And yes, I know this post is 8 (eight) years old
Jerm411
Member
Double Dribble was awesome because like so many other NES games it had that "secret" (shooting 3s from the nails in the court) everyone thought was true and would spread it around playgrounds, etc. I miss those days lol....
NBA Hang Time is criminally underrated IMO...friends and I logged tons of hours on it on N64 back in the day.
NBA Hang Time is criminally underrated IMO...friends and I logged tons of hours on it on N64 back in the day.