NBA Hangtime does not get the credit it deserves. Jam is great, but from a gameplay perspective Hangtime is better in every aspect. Jam is a great game, but HT is a more hardcore version of the engine that allows for better play at a high level
@GisherJohn24 facts I've played from the genesis to snes to ps1 to n64 and by far the n64 version is the best I'm even looking for a n64 at the moment because I bought n64 cheap for 7.00 just because I miss playing it on n63
Totally agreed. Jam was fun, but Hangtime was better. Loved playing it in the arcade and had it for my N64. More players, more dunks, team fire, crazy alley-oops, better graphics, smoother gameplay. Plus it had its own theme song, which was FIRE (not in the Genesis version, but in N64 and arcade). “A three-point threat, no sweat, you can bet, back y’all in or fade away, all net, HANGTIME”
Impressive video editing! That intro was 🔥 I think NBA Jam is remembered so fondly because it was the original over-the-top basketball title. The "sequels" were basically an extension of that original idea, and most people probably have a "been there, seen that" attitude, despite the games being better.
Yes, NBA Jam had the "WOW" factor because it was something we've never seen before. I remember getting NBA Jam T.E. for my birthday from grandma. RIP Grandma!!
Bruh. Story time. My mom got me Street Fighter 2 Alpha for SNES, which I returned to the store for NBA Hangtime because I like SF2 Turbo better. My friend and I ended up playing Hangtime for the next 15 years. Our goal was always to score 100 points and keep the CPU under 50. Our peak best score was the night he was moving out of the country. We played for a solid 2 hours trying to get to 200 points and keep the CPU to 0. Well, the last game, we did it. We scored 200 points exactly while the CPU got 0. It was one of the best gaming nights of our lives. We wonder, to this day, if it's a record.
@@PersonalMagnusGames we didn't think it was because the game literally cheats if it gets behind to try to make it competitive. But, we would steal the ball 2-3 times or block their shot and do three alley oops in a row to get team fire. Rinse, repeat. But, we had well over 1000 hours into this game at this point. The only regret is that it was back in like 2008 so I didn't have a camera phone at the time. =/ wish I coulda gotten a picture. Otherwise, it's just a cool story that we hope people believe.
2008? I had it back in the 90s. Yeah the AI would shoot threes when they were behind even the most scrub player would make threes What's the difference between this and maximum Hangtime?
@@tazz5406 I mean, that we beat the computer 200-0 in 2008 when my friend moved out of country. I had the game since about 1997 or so. We had thousands of hours in the game by 2008 when we played that perfect game. And to answer your question, I actually never played maximum Hangtime. I only ever played it for the SNES.
I would've thought the rubber-banding would've made this impossible. I remember always having a tough time gaining a sizable lead over CPU opponents, and I played the hell out of Hangtime on SNES as well. But sounds like you guys figured out how to beat the CPU's tricks!
Well Midway lost the rights to use the word “Jam” because Acclaim got the rights to use the word Jam for consoles so Acclaim did a arcade version of NBA Jam Extreme first before they port it to the Saturn and the PlayStation so that’s why Midway used the words Hangtime and Showtime with the NBA on NBC name because they got the rights from NBC to use it.
NBA Hangtime was my first experience with an NBA Jam-style gameplay. First time I played it was on the Nintendo 64. Later on, I’ve also played the Genesis, Super NES and the PC versions.
Excellent thoughts and perspective on a topic not often tread. As a fellow fan of the series that lived through each iteration, I agree with your premise and the pillars you use to prop it up. By the time NBA Hang Time arrived on the scene, it was victim of a confluence of factors, not the least of which was 2D sprite and general NBA JAM fatigue in general. I don’t know if you recall a game off the beaten path in the series-College Slam (a collegiate version of the game that offered some experimental features like tip jams)-but Midway certain seemed to be milking the series and concept for all it was worth over several iterations. As you astutely point out, prior to Hang Time, the series just didn’t have the depth to sustain so many sequels and iterations. While I enjoyed each game as it came along (a child of the 80s and 90s, I worshipped not only at the alter of arcades and home consoles, but basketball as well), even I became fatigued a bit after Tournament Edition. I first saw Hang Time in the arcades, however, and was absolutely blown away. The 16-bit ports are impressive, but firing this up either on an Arcade1Up machine, an N64, emulation, or any way you can is well worth the effort. While the general gaming public slept on this game, it is the gold standard for the franchise and a mainstay in my retro rotation (especially as a multi-player party game, sans pandemic). I prefer it to even the more updated versions of the franchise, nothing plays quite the same as Hang Time. I tend to favor Maximum edition (Midway milking the franchise again), and on a big screen with proper settings in emulation it’s still a stunner for what it’s worth. Thank you again for your perspective on this and a chance to contribute my own two cents!
Yup. Hangtime is my favorite. I like all Jams and while Showtime and Hoopz are good idk. Just something off when compared to the 2d smooth of Hangtime.
NBA hang time on the N64 is the best version in my opinion. The music and gameplay is great. Showtime would come in 2nd because it didn't have as good music.
I'm a fan of both but Jam left a more lasting impression on me and many gamers. Despite the over the top gameplay, it still had a sense of realism to it. Initially midway was going for something more realistic at the beginning stages. They gave it a broadcast feel, the animations were very nice and the flesh tone and colors looked sharp and amazing. many people who saw it at the arcade would visualize that they were in a actual NBA game. The developers had that in mind to allow fans to play as their favorite NBA players. Hangtime is lacking a lot of OH SHIT moments. Like people look back to NBA Jam and think... Backboard shatters OH SHIT. NBA halftime report aptitude with an attitude, OH SHIT FMV highlights, then there were the dunking animations where ppl deliver monster jams and send opponents to the floor, OH SHIT. Final moments of the game, At the buzzer *bounce* bounce, it's good! Ohhh shit! i think the term that kids use today is "Hype". Street fighter V failed cuz it didn't have those hype moments that SF4 had
the announcer really gave it a live broadcast feel. Hangtime is considered the more advanced game but it didn't really capture people's imaginations like NBA Jam did. It felt more how you say... cartoony. The animations weren't impressive, there weren't any backboard glass shattering stuff, the announcer was uninspired, none of the dunks made anybody go OH SHIT. obviously if you're comparing the N64 version of Hangtime or even the genesis port which was developed and produced in-house by midway themselves then it's going to run circles around Acclaim's port of NBA Jam which wasn't very good. I recently made a mod patch of NBA Jam for the PSX port which fixed a lot of the errors that acclaim made called NBA Jam 21. but yeah people will keep going back to Jam because it was more simple and it had a way of capturing the atmosphere of a live NBA game. I do plan on making a NBA Hangtime mod though, my idea is to reskin it into a anime style game with female players lol
Thanks for the comment! You hit on some very important points. By the time Hangtime came out, all of those special moments were just not there. I touched on the sound being better on NBA Jam, but the glass shattering dunking is something i forgot about! I'd love to check out your mod for Hang Time if you ever get around to it.
@@scooter_b123 more people play Street Fighter III 3rd strike than SF2 champion edition, turbo, ssf2t etc. we're not really talking about the superior game, rather the game that left a lasting impression on people and why. Jam just captured people's imaginations. if they were to put hangtime out first it would have been Run n Gun or any or those other Arcade bball games. Jam jus had that magic
Sooooo many quarters lost at arcades from all these basketball games. And there was also a college basketball game with hotspots... College Slam. Cant member if I had it for SNES or Sega
I love all three of them , NBA JAM will always live with me almost pushing 30 years because of the nights I would spend with my cousins they had the Sega version vs me with the SNES version . When NBA Hangtime came out I was 6 going on 7 years old and by that time PS1 was out . But thanks too a relative who had a SNES I was addicted too it ever since . Thank you for sharing this nostalgia with us and I definitely subscribed too your channel.
Ah yes....Hang Time....I unloaded tons of quarters in the NBA JAM arcade cabinet at a sports cards store owned by a friend of my parents back in the day, but I definitely gave hang time a lot of play time as well.... Awesome when it came to home consoles.
Run and gun was the best basketball game around that time, it just didn’t have nba licensing....it was actually the first game with the “2K” camera view
Got this for the SNES, still want the Genesis and PS1 versions of the game. Used to rent the PS1 version many years ago, even have the NHL game Midway put out on the PS1 and arcade (the first version of the game of course), 2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge. Did have an opportunity to play the arcade Hangtime in a Wal Mart as they had the cabinet after getting rid of the NBA Jam T.E. they once had back in the day (it was next to the first TMNT arcade game, hell of a side by side duo of arcade cabs). Still play it from time to time in MAME.
That’s the only reason I bought the nba jam arcade 1up cabinet I didn’t give a crap about nba jam or nba jam TE I bought it for nba hang time nba hang time is the goat !!
NBA Hangtime and Showtime are the DIRECT sequels to NBA Jam. Midway lost the license to NBA Jam to Acclaim so they rebranded as Hangtime and Acclaim came out with NBA Jam Extreme.
Out of curiosity, did you ever play NBA JAM Extreme? I've never seen it in arcades, but absolutely loved it on the PS1. I wasn't even aware Acclaim had stolen the name off Midway for it and it had absolutely nothing to do with the actual NBA JAM Series.
I had NBA Hangtime for MS-DOS as a kiddo when my father disposed of his old work laptop. Found Hangtime before Jam or Jam T.E. Little did I know, the MS-DOS version of Hangtime was almost exactly like the arcade cabinet aside from the difficulty.
0:11 BMG and Columbia House: "Let's advertise in Kids gaming mags. They TOTALLY won't enter into an illegal contract as minors." 90's kids: "12 for the price of NONE you say?" I wonder how many fake names and bogus residences I can come up before they catch on." BMG and CH: "WELP oh well, we were robbing the music artists blind too. Lets try and pass the buck and just send people CDs they didn't order and force them to pay because they didn't check our boxes saying they didn't want them." Kids today: "What's a Compact Disc?"
Hangtime is also my favorite of the NBA Jam series. it was one of the first games I got with my N64.... I remember playing it for hours with my friends.
NBA In The Zone for PS1, anyone? It was 5v5, and it had that fast simple arcade gameplay like Run & Gun, with real NBA players/teams and 3D graphics. One of the best non-sim sports games of the era.
I remember I played a ton of NBA Jam (Tournament Edition?) on the SNES. It wasn't exactly like the arcade but it was much faster and you could play lockdown defense if you got good. My brother and I had intense games.
I think rubber banding in NBA Jam is way more obvious than in NBA Hangtime. Unfortunately, I haven't experienced the Mega Drive version, neither have I a temptation for it, being able to play the arcade version on MAME. In the arcade version the sound is so much better except for the commentator. For some reason they didn't use Tim Kitzrow. Thank you for the video!
We played NBA Hangtime a ton back in high school and college for N64. We used to play Series of Series, which was best of 7 of a best of a 7, if that makes sense haha. Always random team select. The announcer was funny. Easy gameplay but took talent to master
I remember being at....Spencer’s? I think that’s what the store was....it’s long closed now. Seeing the N64 with like two games at release. I wanted nba hang time which was on the SNES. I was actually given the option by my father to choose the N64 with a game or nba hang time. Which I think nba hang time cost $80-$100 new. I saw an ad awhile back and was like holy crap SNES games were more expensive even back in the 90’s vs now. No wonder blockbuster and video stores took off. Long story short, I chose nba hang time and it was the best decision I made as a kid. The create a player with unlockable heads, upgrades. Even playing solo it was amazing....I also got bored of NBA Jam too quick. But add a create a character and some stats to increase as you play and it’s addicting as hell. Remember nba hangtime didn’t release on the N64 till after the SNES version came out.
I bought NBA Hangtime not that long ago for the Nintendo 64 and I would like to know the basics on how to play the game since I don't have a printed manual. How do the controls work and how can I do tricks/supermoves?
@@PersonalMagnusGames I'd downloaded hang time a few days ago from the games market on the pandora saga console. Pretty sure it's the megadrive/genesis version. It also has NBA jam, and NBA jam TE megadrive/genesis version. And it has the NBA jam arcade version. I'm hooked! Lol. I recently got back into vintage gaming. It's been great playing the games I used to love on the arcade and megadrive. Double dragon, golden axe, TMNT, and turtles in time, hyperstone heist, aliens, alien vs predator, x-men, final fight, simpsons, NHL hockey, punisher, terminator 2. Man, the list is endless. Would've bought one years ago if I'd have known I could get all my favourites from the 80s n 90s all in one console.
Hangtime arcade is the best but the Nintendo 64 one should've added a season and a tournament bracket. NBA showtime had the cool NBA on NBC intro but was too offensively oriented. The movement and spin move in NBA hangtime allowed you to push the computer to it's limits and be able to secure victories if you execute properly whereas NBA jam's limited movements forced you to submit to the computer cheating if they were down 15+, overriding even the most superb excecutions of defense and offense.
NBA Hangtime was a really good game, the styles vs. NBA Jam was really different. NBA Jam was like really like CPS-1 Street Fighter 2 NBA Hangtime was more like CPS-2 Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Badass review! I didn't even know NBA hangtime was part of the NBA jam series. I use to think it was a straight up knockoff that stole the gameplay. But I did always think I looked way better. For whatever reason, I never got to play it more then once tho
Still like to play NBA Jam On Fire Edition on Xbox 360/One from time to time. Also rebought NBA Street Vol 3 for Gamecube recently, but that game did not age well in my opinion. Still have Hangtime for the N64 and SNES. Loved the 64 version, great local multiplayer fun.
Yeah NBA Showtime for the dreamcast was lit too I wish at the time could own a dreamcast, luckily for me my cousin bought a dreamcast for his son and he had NBA Showtime
OK, here’s how I know we’re all being watched. Every morning before work I wake up and play 10 to 15 minutes of NBA jam. Now TH-cam, Where I’ve never searched for anything NBA jam related, recommends a video from a creator with less than 1000 subscribers about NBA jam. Great video though.
This might be the first video I've seen on here, favoring NBA Hangtime over NBA Jam. I think they're different enough that I don't think I'd ever confused the two of them. Hangtime is more fast paced, imo. I'd say the same for NBA Showtime. The three of them are different and all three pretty great. I can't say the same for games like NBA Hoopz.
the reviewer from Next Generation Magazine said NBA Jam Extreme had superior graphics to NBA Hangtime lol...i swear, back in the 90s, ppl were so dick-matized by those primitive 3D polygons but i knew what was better even back then....
Another one i like a lot of Barkley shut up and jam but i haven't played the jaguar one yet and not afan of the sequel . I never really played NBA jam and love hangtime from PSX and N64.
I got my hands on this game for the first time in 20 plus years and found myself in bliss for hours I’m still amazed that I’m still as good as I was when I was 12 5/5 kudos to NBA HANG TIME
I have Nba Hangtime on N64 and Nba Jam Tournament Edition for the Atari Jaguar and love both but I have to go with Hang Time. Game just feels more polished to me. I have fun with both but find myself going back to Hang time more. I love the PS3 Nba Jam game as well. That game is awesome. I want to track down the Sega Cd Port of the Original Nba Jam. I hear that Port is the best of the Original game.
I played all versions of NBA hanging from Genesis SNES PS1 N64 and will say it doesn't get the respect that it deserves! Sure NBA jam and NBA showtime were great game but hangtime had more varieties and opinions
Quite simply, Hangtime made NBA Jam obsolete. I used to rent it for SNES all the damn time. A few years later I found the PC version which was pretty much arcade-perfect, and that + my Gravis Gamepad Pro kept me occupied for years.
i heard about nba jam much much later, thankfully one of the guys had the nba hang time cartridge for the snes and that's what we played it haven't aged a day! (don't know about the genesis version though 😅sadly you had one of the worse versions of the game, later it came to the n64 and ps1 which were pretty much arcade perfect)
Hey Personal Magnus, sorry for pulling my comment after talking to you. I wish you would have responded to my comment sooner. I actually reached out to a couple people after talking to you to see if there was any interest and I found another TH-camr that was ready to commit to the idea immediately. He has a few friends that were gamers too that were willing to be part of the team too. We decided on a deal for me to fund his channel for the next year. I'm sorry, but i was in a little rush to get this going. I'm on a timeline with my other business. I wish you the best in your endeavors. I think you'll go a long way if you keep working hard. It's unfortunate we couldn't do business. You're gonna do fine if you keep making videos. Honestly, you really would have been a good fit for what i was working on. I thought we would have gotten along great. I wish you the best on your channel. I appreciate you responding to my comment. thx
NBA Showtime on NBC is the greatest game of this style.
He'll yeah
Betten than "Run and Gun" gang? That joint had the sickest crossovers and slams ever, in the arcade styled pro basketball games.
I agree nba on NBC was the best midway basketball game. I also had nba hoopz
Showtime was great
Couldn’t agree more !!!
On the Dreamcast baby
NBA Hangtime does not get the credit it deserves. Jam is great, but from a gameplay perspective Hangtime is better in every aspect. Jam is a great game, but HT is a more hardcore version of the engine that allows for better play at a high level
It's because Hangtime had more options, team power up was one of the them.
The n64 version is the version to get in my opinion. Music is arcade perfect on the n64 too.
@GisherJohn24 facts I've played from the genesis to snes to ps1 to n64 and by far the n64 version is the best I'm even looking for a n64 at the moment because I bought n64 cheap for 7.00 just because I miss playing it on n63
@@dlopezdlo11 Amen
Totally agreed. Jam was fun, but Hangtime was better. Loved playing it in the arcade and had it for my N64. More players, more dunks, team fire, crazy alley-oops, better graphics, smoother gameplay. Plus it had its own theme song, which was FIRE (not in the Genesis version, but in N64 and arcade). “A three-point threat, no sweat, you can bet, back y’all in or fade away, all net, HANGTIME”
The arcade theme song was indeed awesome, I remember that.
The spin move alone made "NBA Hangtime" better than "NBA Jam".
The N64 version was the best
It was OP
And the team fire when you did 3 Alleyoops in a row.
Impressive video editing! That intro was 🔥
I think NBA Jam is remembered so fondly because it was the original over-the-top basketball title. The "sequels" were basically an extension of that original idea, and most people probably have a "been there, seen that" attitude, despite the games being better.
Very true.
Yes, NBA Jam had the "WOW" factor because it was something we've never seen before. I remember getting NBA Jam T.E. for my birthday from grandma. RIP Grandma!!
thats true and the way it should be imo anyway.
Hangtime, Showtime and Hoopz are all better than original Jam
Exactly
@@B3astByNatur3 TE is my favourite NBA game.
Bruh. Story time. My mom got me Street Fighter 2 Alpha for SNES, which I returned to the store for NBA Hangtime because I like SF2 Turbo better. My friend and I ended up playing Hangtime for the next 15 years. Our goal was always to score 100 points and keep the CPU under 50. Our peak best score was the night he was moving out of the country. We played for a solid 2 hours trying to get to 200 points and keep the CPU to 0. Well, the last game, we did it. We scored 200 points exactly while the CPU got 0. It was one of the best gaming nights of our lives. We wonder, to this day, if it's a record.
That's crazy. Never even dreamed that was possible!
@@PersonalMagnusGames we didn't think it was because the game literally cheats if it gets behind to try to make it competitive. But, we would steal the ball 2-3 times or block their shot and do three alley oops in a row to get team fire. Rinse, repeat. But, we had well over 1000 hours into this game at this point. The only regret is that it was back in like 2008 so I didn't have a camera phone at the time. =/ wish I coulda gotten a picture. Otherwise, it's just a cool story that we hope people believe.
2008? I had it back in the 90s. Yeah the AI would shoot threes when they were behind even the most scrub player would make threes
What's the difference between this and maximum Hangtime?
@@tazz5406 I mean, that we beat the computer 200-0 in 2008 when my friend moved out of country. I had the game since about 1997 or so. We had thousands of hours in the game by 2008 when we played that perfect game. And to answer your question, I actually never played maximum Hangtime. I only ever played it for the SNES.
I would've thought the rubber-banding would've made this impossible. I remember always having a tough time gaining a sizable lead over CPU opponents, and I played the hell out of Hangtime on SNES as well. But sounds like you guys figured out how to beat the CPU's tricks!
The halftime song is awesome.
"Showtime on NBC" is probably the most superior out of all the NBA Jam type games until "NBA Street" came out.
That's my shit showtime on nbc I would put in the code for grandpa and isaiah thomas (Detroit pistons)
Toronto Raptors (Tmac and VC) for the win.
I agree
Facts
Agreed loved that game
Well Midway lost the rights to use the word “Jam” because Acclaim got the rights to use the word Jam for consoles so Acclaim did a arcade version of NBA Jam Extreme first before they port it to the Saturn and the PlayStation so that’s why Midway used the words Hangtime and Showtime with the NBA on NBC name because they got the rights from NBC to use it.
NBA Showtime was my fave!
Oh, the NBA JAM announcer is Tom Kitzrow, he did a few other games too like NFL Blitz and more recently Mutant League Football.
Loved NBA Hangtime as well. The rooftop court was my favorite. The Rap theme song was classic
Only posers play NBA Jam.
TE is better and Hangtime is the greatest sports game of all time.
NBA Hangtime was my first experience with an NBA Jam-style gameplay. First time I played it was on the Nintendo 64. Later on, I’ve also played the Genesis, Super NES and the PC versions.
N-64 was by far the best version!
Excellent thoughts and perspective on a topic not often tread. As a fellow fan of the series that lived through each iteration, I agree with your premise and the pillars you use to prop it up. By the time NBA Hang Time arrived on the scene, it was victim of a confluence of factors, not the least of which was 2D sprite and general NBA JAM fatigue in general. I don’t know if you recall a game off the beaten path in the series-College Slam (a collegiate version of the game that offered some experimental features like tip jams)-but Midway certain seemed to be milking the series and concept for all it was worth over several iterations. As you astutely point out, prior to Hang Time, the series just didn’t have the depth to sustain so many sequels and iterations. While I enjoyed each game as it came along (a child of the 80s and 90s, I worshipped not only at the alter of arcades and home consoles, but basketball as well), even I became fatigued a bit after Tournament Edition. I first saw Hang Time in the arcades, however, and was absolutely blown away. The 16-bit ports are impressive, but firing this up either on an Arcade1Up machine, an N64, emulation, or any way you can is well worth the effort. While the general gaming public slept on this game, it is the gold standard for the franchise and a mainstay in my retro rotation (especially as a multi-player party game, sans pandemic). I prefer it to even the more updated versions of the franchise, nothing plays quite the same as Hang Time. I tend to favor Maximum edition (Midway milking the franchise again), and on a big screen with proper settings in emulation it’s still a stunner for what it’s worth. Thank you again for your perspective on this and a chance to contribute my own two cents!
Yup. Hangtime is my favorite. I like all Jams and while Showtime and Hoopz are good idk. Just something off when compared to the 2d smooth of Hangtime.
NBA hang time on the N64 is the best version in my opinion. The music and gameplay is great. Showtime would come in 2nd because it didn't have as good music.
Agree.
I'm a fan of both but Jam left a more lasting impression on me and many gamers. Despite the over the top gameplay, it still had a sense of realism to it. Initially midway was going for something more realistic at the beginning stages. They gave it a broadcast feel, the animations were very nice and the flesh tone and colors looked sharp and amazing.
many people who saw it at the arcade would visualize that they were in a actual NBA game. The developers had that in mind to allow fans to play as their favorite NBA players.
Hangtime is lacking a lot of OH SHIT moments. Like people look back to NBA Jam and think... Backboard shatters OH SHIT. NBA halftime report aptitude with an attitude, OH SHIT FMV highlights, then there were the dunking animations where ppl deliver monster jams and send opponents to the floor, OH SHIT. Final moments of the game, At the buzzer *bounce* bounce, it's good! Ohhh shit! i think the term that kids use today is "Hype". Street fighter V failed cuz it didn't have those hype moments that SF4 had
the announcer really gave it a live broadcast feel. Hangtime is considered the more advanced game but it didn't really capture people's imaginations like NBA Jam did. It felt more how you say... cartoony. The animations weren't impressive, there weren't any backboard glass shattering stuff, the announcer was uninspired, none of the dunks made anybody go OH SHIT.
obviously if you're comparing the N64 version of Hangtime or even the genesis port which was developed and produced in-house by midway themselves then it's going to run circles around Acclaim's port of NBA Jam which wasn't very good. I recently made a mod patch of NBA Jam for the PSX port which fixed a lot of the errors that acclaim made called NBA Jam 21.
but yeah people will keep going back to Jam because it was more simple and it had a way of capturing the atmosphere of a live NBA game. I do plan on making a NBA Hangtime mod though, my idea is to reskin it into a anime style game with female players lol
Thanks for the comment! You hit on some very important points. By the time Hangtime came out, all of those special moments were just not there. I touched on the sound being better on NBA Jam, but the glass shattering dunking is something i forgot about! I'd love to check out your mod for Hang Time if you ever get around to it.
I play hangtime everyday on my arcade 1up. I dont even touch jam.
@@scooter_b123 more people play Street Fighter III 3rd strike than SF2 champion edition, turbo, ssf2t etc. we're not really talking about the superior game, rather the game that left a lasting impression on people and why. Jam just captured people's imaginations. if they were to put hangtime out first it would have been Run n Gun or any or those other Arcade bball games. Jam jus had that magic
I only know of NBA Jam but Hangtime looks like a worthy successor. My brother would dig it on the 64!
Sooooo many quarters lost at arcades from all these basketball games. And there was also a college basketball game with hotspots... College Slam. Cant member if I had it for SNES or Sega
If it had no music, you had the SNES version. Both versions were based on their own NBA jam ports
I love all three of them , NBA JAM will always live with me almost pushing 30 years because of the nights I would spend with my cousins they had the Sega version vs me with the SNES version . When NBA Hangtime came out I was 6 going on 7 years old and by that time PS1 was out . But thanks too a relative who had a SNES I was addicted too it ever since . Thank you for sharing this nostalgia with us and I definitely subscribed too your channel.
There was also "College Slam" as well.
It’s great considering I now have the Arcade1Up NBA Jam Deluxe 30th anniversary cabinet with Hangtime on it so I have my own version to play.
Ah yes....Hang Time....I unloaded tons of quarters in the NBA JAM arcade cabinet at a sports cards store owned by a friend of my parents back in the day, but I definitely gave hang time a lot of play time as well.... Awesome when it came to home consoles.
I legit didn't even know that nba hang time came out for the sega genesis.
Hahaha. Genesis was almost irrelevant by the time it came out.
Run and gun was the best basketball game around that time, it just didn’t have nba licensing....it was actually the first game with the “2K” camera view
I agree! NBA Hangtime had stuff that Jam didn’t have like having your entire team on fire as well as alley-oops.
Got this for the SNES, still want the Genesis and PS1 versions of the game. Used to rent the PS1 version many years ago, even have the NHL game Midway put out on the PS1 and arcade (the first version of the game of course), 2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge. Did have an opportunity to play the arcade Hangtime in a Wal Mart as they had the cabinet after getting rid of the NBA Jam T.E. they once had back in the day (it was next to the first TMNT arcade game, hell of a side by side duo of arcade cabs). Still play it from time to time in MAME.
That’s the only reason I bought the nba jam arcade 1up cabinet I didn’t give a crap about nba jam or nba jam TE I bought it for nba hang time nba hang time is the goat !!
I have both nba hangtime and nba showtime on the N64. I spent hours playing both. 👍🏽
Can you please do a video on the NBA Shootout? Plus have you played it? By the way great video keep it up!
Thank you! I will in the future.
NBA Hangtime and Showtime are the DIRECT sequels to NBA Jam. Midway lost the license to NBA Jam to Acclaim so they rebranded as Hangtime and Acclaim came out with NBA Jam Extreme.
Out of curiosity, did you ever play NBA JAM Extreme? I've never seen it in arcades, but absolutely loved it on the PS1. I wasn't even aware Acclaim had stolen the name off Midway for it and it had absolutely nothing to do with the actual NBA JAM Series.
I had NBA Hangtime for MS-DOS as a kiddo when my father disposed of his old work laptop. Found Hangtime before Jam or Jam T.E. Little did I know, the MS-DOS version of Hangtime was almost exactly like the arcade cabinet aside from the difficulty.
0:11 BMG and Columbia House: "Let's advertise in Kids gaming mags. They TOTALLY won't enter into an illegal contract as minors."
90's kids: "12 for the price of NONE you say?" I wonder how many fake names and bogus residences I can come up before they catch on."
BMG and CH: "WELP oh well, we were robbing the music artists blind too. Lets try and pass the buck and just send people CDs they didn't order and force them to pay because they didn't check our boxes saying they didn't want them."
Kids today: "What's a Compact Disc?"
I really love nba showtime "nba on nbc" lol. The dreamcast version played exactly like it did in the arcade
Hangtime is also my favorite of the NBA Jam series. it was one of the first games I got with my N64.... I remember playing it for hours with my friends.
Hangtime was the best in the series!
I remember that, This game got me liking NBA, I loved those games
I still play nba Hang Time on my N64 ! It's a great port.
NBA In The Zone for PS1, anyone? It was 5v5, and it had that fast simple arcade gameplay like Run & Gun, with real NBA players/teams and 3D graphics. One of the best non-sim sports games of the era.
Play your save after decades was the best for sure!
Just picked up the arcade 1up hang time baby
I remember I played a ton of NBA Jam (Tournament Edition?) on the SNES. It wasn't exactly like the arcade but it was much faster and you could play lockdown defense if you got good. My brother and I had intense games.
2024 me playing 2K with my kids, sometimes the odd “Boomshaqalaka” slips out my mouth.
I think rubber banding in NBA Jam is way more obvious than in NBA Hangtime. Unfortunately, I haven't experienced the Mega Drive version, neither have I a temptation for it, being able to play the arcade version on MAME. In the arcade version the sound is so much better except for the commentator. For some reason they didn't use Tim Kitzrow. Thank you for the video!
I first played hangtime on Genesis.
Yo I remember playing this for arcade the first time, then my pops got it for me for n64 but it was nba maximum Hangtime
We played NBA Hangtime a ton back in high school and college for N64. We used to play Series of Series, which was best of 7 of a best of a 7, if that makes sense haha. Always random team select. The announcer was funny. Easy gameplay but took talent to master
I don’t even like traditional sports games but NBA hangtime especially the N64 version was the definitive 2 on 2 game.
I remember being at....Spencer’s? I think that’s what the store was....it’s long closed now. Seeing the N64 with like two games at release. I wanted nba hang time which was on the SNES. I was actually given the option by my father to choose the N64 with a game or nba hang time. Which I think nba hang time cost $80-$100 new. I saw an ad awhile back and was like holy crap SNES games were more expensive even back in the 90’s vs now. No wonder blockbuster and video stores took off. Long story short, I chose nba hang time and it was the best decision I made as a kid. The create a player with unlockable heads, upgrades. Even playing solo it was amazing....I also got bored of NBA Jam too quick. But add a create a character and some stats to increase as you play and it’s addicting as hell. Remember nba hangtime didn’t release on the N64 till after the SNES version came out.
the n64 version of this game is where its at!
I bought NBA Hangtime not that long ago for the Nintendo 64 and I would like to know the basics on how to play the game since I don't have a printed manual. How do the controls work and how can I do tricks/supermoves?
Awesome vid my man!! This game is an all time classic!!
Been playing hang time these last few day's, and it's awesome! Looks and plays fantastic.
NBA jam tournament edition is still my favourite though.
NBA Jam TE is a great game! Can't take away anything from that game!
@@PersonalMagnusGames I'd downloaded hang time a few days ago from the games market on the pandora saga console. Pretty sure it's the megadrive/genesis version. It also has NBA jam, and NBA jam TE megadrive/genesis version. And it has the NBA jam arcade version. I'm hooked! Lol.
I recently got back into vintage gaming. It's been great playing the games I used to love on the arcade and megadrive.
Double dragon, golden axe, TMNT, and turtles in time, hyperstone heist, aliens, alien vs predator, x-men, final fight, simpsons, NHL hockey, punisher, terminator 2. Man, the list is endless.
Would've bought one years ago if I'd have known I could get all my favourites from the 80s n 90s all in one console.
Have you ever tried maximum hang time. It kinda remind me
Of this and it’s FIRE
Hangtime arcade is the best but the Nintendo 64 one should've added a season and a tournament bracket. NBA showtime had the cool NBA on NBC intro but was too offensively oriented. The movement and spin move in NBA hangtime allowed you to push the computer to it's limits and be able to secure victories if you execute properly whereas NBA jam's limited movements forced you to submit to the computer cheating if they were down 15+, overriding even the most superb excecutions of defense and offense.
NBA Hangtime was a really good game, the styles vs. NBA Jam was really different.
NBA Jam was like really like CPS-1 Street Fighter 2
NBA Hangtime was more like CPS-2 Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Very true
Hangtime was amazing on EVERY CONSOLE
Badass review! I didn't even know NBA hangtime was part of the NBA jam series. I use to think it was a straight up knockoff that stole the gameplay. But I did always think I looked way better. For whatever reason, I never got to play it more then once tho
Thanks for the comment! It was a good time when it was released!
Glad I was able no pick up all three on the countercade this year for $99.
Still like to play NBA Jam On Fire Edition on Xbox 360/One
from time to time. Also rebought NBA Street Vol 3 for Gamecube recently, but that game did not age well in my opinion. Still have Hangtime for the N64 and SNES. Loved the 64 version, great local multiplayer fun.
Yeah NBA Showtime for the dreamcast was lit too I wish at the time could own a dreamcast, luckily for me my cousin bought a dreamcast for his son and he had NBA Showtime
OK, here’s how I know we’re all being watched. Every morning before work I wake up and play 10 to 15 minutes of NBA jam. Now TH-cam, Where I’ve never searched for anything NBA jam related, recommends a video from a creator with less than 1000 subscribers about NBA jam. Great video though.
Thanks man! We are def being tracked...
Spooky. 👻😬
This might be the first video I've seen on here, favoring NBA Hangtime over NBA Jam. I think they're different enough that I don't think I'd ever confused the two of them. Hangtime is more fast paced, imo. I'd say the same for NBA Showtime. The three of them are different and all three pretty great. I can't say the same for games like NBA Hoopz.
Hang time was my shit too! The basketball head character was crazy! And the spin move was OP!😂 fun times
I am big fan of nba hang time and their 1 up cabinets
NBA Jam "On Fire Edition" is my favorite version.
the reviewer from Next Generation Magazine said NBA Jam Extreme had superior graphics to NBA Hangtime lol...i swear, back in the 90s, ppl were so dick-matized by those primitive 3D polygons but i knew what was better even back then....
College slam was great too underrated
All you had to do in this game was turbo to half court, hit the spin, then go to the rack. It worked way, way, too often
always loved NBA Hangtime, also didn't know there was a version on the Genesis I had the N64 version but that's an amazing record lol 150-2!!
Another one i like a lot of Barkley shut up and jam but i haven't played the jaguar one yet and not afan of the sequel . I never really played NBA jam and love hangtime from PSX and N64.
With the n64 expansion pack upgrade this co op full season was breakthrough shit my friend and I are tripping!!!!!
I got my hands on this game for the first time in 20 plus years and found myself in bliss for hours I’m still amazed that I’m still as good as I was when I was 12 5/5 kudos to NBA HANG TIME
It is STILL an awesome game!
I have Nba Hangtime on N64 and Nba Jam Tournament Edition for the Atari Jaguar and love both but I have to go with Hang Time. Game just feels more polished to me. I have fun with both but find myself going back to Hang time more. I love the PS3 Nba Jam game as well. That game is awesome. I want to track down the Sega Cd Port of the Original Nba Jam. I hear that Port is the best of the Original game.
To this day I still hum the Hangtime menu theme
I 100% agree brother! Hangtime gets slept on!!!
So true!
I played all versions of NBA hanging from Genesis SNES PS1 N64 and will say it doesn't get the respect that it deserves! Sure NBA jam and NBA showtime were great game but hangtime had more varieties and opinions
Checkout NBA Hangtime for the 64. It's essentially the same as NBA Jam.
That was the first time I played the game. On N64. I really liked it....then when I discovered it on the Genesis, I was like...WOW.
I played a ton of hangtime on the n64 - def thought showtime was the best of all of them but I love them all
8:12 rip ears
So sorry for that!
This game was so dope on ps1
Quite simply, Hangtime made NBA Jam obsolete. I used to rent it for SNES all the damn time. A few years later I found the PC version which was pretty much arcade-perfect, and that + my Gravis Gamepad Pro kept me occupied for years.
NBA Showtime was the best. Fouls aside, it's the definitive basketball game.
everyone forgets about College Slam
Both of those games are basically nba jam made by the exact same teams
Hangtime, and I'm being completely serious, might be the greatest game of all time.
I like hangtime better too. Looks better and controls are tighter.
Very true
Tournament Edition ftw
Even to this day me and the bros play NBA HANGTIME on the N64 every weekend
Hahhaa... it never stops being fun. Have you tried NBA Street?
@@PersonalMagnusGames ya I have it's just been a few years but I like it
I agree with you papi 100%!
Acclaim bought out NBA Jam under Midways nose which forced Midway to create NBA Hangtime, so Hangtime is the REAL NBA Jam
i heard about nba jam much much later, thankfully one of the guys had the nba hang time cartridge for the snes and that's what we played
it haven't aged a day! (don't know about the genesis version though 😅sadly you had one of the worse versions of the game, later it came to the n64 and ps1 which were pretty much arcade perfect)
Customised characters, infinite turbo, the spin move and team fire made Hangtime vastly superior to NBA Jam.
NBA Hang-time on Genesis was my favorite!!!
People group them all together and just remember them all as nba jam
Very true
Might have to agree !!
Tournament Edition is by far the greatest
It is fun, can't deny that.
Hey Personal Magnus, sorry for pulling my comment after talking to you. I wish you would have responded to my comment sooner. I actually reached out to a couple people after talking to you to see if there was any interest and I found another TH-camr that was ready to commit to the idea immediately. He has a few friends that were gamers too that were willing to be part of the team too. We decided on a deal for me to fund his channel for the next year. I'm sorry, but i was in a little rush to get this going. I'm on a timeline with my other business.
I wish you the best in your endeavors. I think you'll go a long way if you keep working hard. It's unfortunate we couldn't do business. You're gonna do fine if you keep making videos. Honestly, you really would have been a good fit for what i was working on. I thought we would have gotten along great. I wish you the best on your channel. I appreciate you responding to my comment. thx