Pros: Exciting basketball arcade action, with fun new mechanics that you can only do in the world of video games! Also, credit to the SNES version for being up to four players using the Multi-tap! Two on two matches are a blast, pushin, shovin, passin and high ballin, doing incredible slam dunks with pizzazz! Get repeated shots in a row and you're ON FIRE! Where you can do even more spectacular moves, especially dunks where you fly sky high into the air, and come crashing down with style, often shattering the backboard!! This game is a riot, it's so much fun, and playing it on the SNES was the next best thing to the arcade.

Cons: It ain't the arcade version, and it still pales in comparison to later games, like T.E., Hangtime, and the Wii revival. But this original still holds up great! The arcade version has better graphics, sound, commentary (though thankfully all the best iconic lines are still here), and one of the graphical elements that the SNES version lacks, is the photo real faces during gameplay... But, for me personally, what NBA Jam, any version of NBA Jam, lacks most of all, that brings down the experience... is that there is no Michael Jordan... But hey, he'd have been a lose-proof cheat anyway, heh.

What it means to me: I was a huge basketball nut in the 90s, being from Chicago (as was NBA Jam developer, Midway), during the Chicago Bulls reign of dominance, so this game was right up my alley as a Nintendo fan. Enjoyed it plenty, and still do.