Customer Reviews

NBA Hang Time

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Not many games in the video game industry can actually be a triumph as a spinoff, or a remake. For Midway, following up the success of NBA Jam was a difficult challenge. It became the highest-grossing video game in the industry, with more than $1 billion to the name. As NBA Hang Time was set to commence, many people had no idea of how good this game was going to be.

NBA Hang Time was the very first full-length Basketball video game for the Nintendo 64, giving newcomers who had just bought the smash console a chance to really get some air. Hang Time had also created something new to the mix that makes it all seem interesting. The game is a bit similar to NBA Jam, but there was something a little different. The game also included a create a player mode, a mode where instead of speding a few quarters at the arcade, you can createyour very own basketball player, by controlling how tall you want him, how good he can block you, and even how good his aim is for the hoop.

Although many people aren't interested in NBA Hang Time as much as they're interested in newer games that came out for Playstation 2 and XBOX, but there are some new gamers out there who have the Nintendo 64, that might want to enjoy the 2 on 2 Basketball fever. If you own the Nintendo 64, but you don't have NBA Hang Time, you need to make that shot for 3, and get this video game.

This game was a great purchase. An excellent multiplayer experience. Classic mid-90's excitement. This game is ON FIRE. And when I've been playing it, all I can think of is this: BOOM SHAKA LAKA!!!

This game is like NBA Jam only better. The dunks are incredible, the gameplay is easy and extremely fun, the graphics are great (real heads and names are used on the characters!), and the sound is an A+ as well. You can play with teams already created or make your own character. And, you can access hidden codes and players which make the game that much more fun! You can save your data with a controller pack that only uses a few pages of data! Only 3 I think! It's great. This is a great game for any sports fan. Don't miss it. Even after playing it for hundreds of hours, I still see new things happen everytime I play.

NBA Hangtime was originally an arcade game that continues on the NBA Jam franchise with updated roster, graphics and the ability to create a player with its own attributes. It did pretty well and eventually it was ported to the SNES, Nintendo 64, Playstation and PC. While it's a spot on arcade port, it's okay when you play it by yourself but best played with other people.

You start off by choosing to create a player or just picking a squad of two guys from any NBA team to go against the computer for 4 quarters each lasting 15 minutes. Whoever has the most points wins the game. Beat all 29 NBA teams and you will be crowned the grand champion. The game's option screen lets you choose to lower or higher the audio and sound effects, increase or decrease the game's difficulty and to slow down or speed up the game clock. As for creating a player, you choose a name and pin number, then choose a head for your player, color of uniform, how to distribute attribute points, pick a nickname and then save it all so you can use it during the match ups. You can bring up to 3 other players to play 2 on 2 matches at any time. As an added bonus, you can find online and enter various cheat codes to activate different effects, get additional players, courts and a different basketball.

The PROS: Midway gave us an exact arcade port of the hit arcade game. Everything that was in the arcade game is in here so you won't miss anything. Don't worry about the controls because it is easy to get used to. You can even customize the buttons to your liking. The create a player and cheat codes are welcome additions while the multiplayer portion proves that is where the real fun is at; especially if you and your friends like to trash talk during the match ups.

The CONS: Nothing else was added to make this port stand out; no extra modes or bonus content means that all is you do is play against the other teams. Also, no matter which difficulty level you put it at, the A.I. players will ALWAYS catch up and make sure they can beat you at the last possible second. It can get frustrating when your shots are suddenly blocked with perfect precision, get shoved to the ground with lightning accuracy and have the A.I. players make perfect shots no matter where they are in the court. You will lose games every so often and to earn more attribute points for your created player, you have to win 4 games in a row for 2 APs and that's the ONLY way to earn them. At least when you play against other people, you level the playing field enough for the game to be enjoyable.

There's nothing special about NBA Hangtime. It's a perfect arcade port so you won't miss anything if you didn't play it in the arcades. It's a game best played with other people as the A.I. players make sure you don't win by a landslide and do whatever it takes to rob you of a win right down to the last second in the fourth quarter. And there's no special ending if you do beat all the teams so this is really for the fans of the NBA Jam series and no one else. Get this cheap and make sure you have friends to play this with. Otherwise, pass this one up.

This old arcade game is one of my favorite n64 games ever. The create a player option keeps me going for days playing it.

Iv'e been around videogaming quite some years now and i must say NBA Hangtime still, more then ten years after its release, is the best game iv'e ever played! Real live characters such as Dennis Rodman (with changable haircollors!) Patrick Ewing and Gary Payton are displayed hilaricaly realistic but still (deu to the just a little to big heads) caricutaristic.

Next to the real live players there is also the option to create your own character!!! Take your pick out of diferent figurine's like a yellow chicken, a green marsian or even a real live wherewolf! Then pick a nickname out of a list with hilarical name's like cuckoo, spanky or mad dog! Adjust your specialties and abilities (which increase after winning more game's) and game on!!!

Gameplay is fast and fun. No gamerules, foulcalling and freethrows here but an hilarical over the top 2 on 2 batlle for the ball complete with shoving over opponents, alley oops, double dunks and teamfire!!!

The ingame play by play comments by Bulls announcer Neal Funk are just as hilarical as the rest of the game with calls like "get that outer here!!!", "What a disaster!!!", "Is that legal???" and "What was heee thinking???"

On the overal soundpart there is not much to complain either. A booming rap presented by M-Dogg together with all sorts of friendly little samples during game- and braketime make this game a joy not only for the eye but also the ear!!!

All together i have to say that after more than ten years this game, deu to a magical mix off components, still hasn't been topped!!! Not only with 4 friends together this game stands for hours of fun but even alone its good for a rimrockin time!!!

B.t.w. this game is rumoured to be out for Live Arcade soon, we could compete online then. They'll be doing us all a big favour!!!

Being a followup version of NBA JAM it should have kept some of the same options previous versions had. Particuly the "dunks from anywhere" and "unlimited fire" codes. Because it's more fun to play with those codes sometimes then it is to play this difficult game. The stratagy compared to JAM is a lot harder and makes it less fun IMO, you can't just turn up the juice and kick your opponents a## in this one because the computer will always make a comeback instantly every single time, even if you get 20 points ahead all of a sudden you cant sink a bucket, your instantly blocked by the comp or it will steal from nowhere and there 3 pointers never miss even with players who in real life cant shoot for $#!%.

It is very hard to block or grab rebounds against the computer, shots dont go in nicely like in NBA JAM, and it's difficult enough to get on fire, let alone, stay on fire with the cheating computer instantly making come backs to make it a hard to win matchup everytime... eventualy you do work out the stratagy and it becomes a challenge to win instead of being fun to play.

There are some cool new options tho, the graphics are better then the old SNES Jams and there is new cool dunks and ally oops, double dunks, and "team fire" where if you can make 3 ally oops in a row both of your teamates become on fire with a blue colored flame. The create a wrestler is a cool idea, but you cant do much then just choose heads and attributes and a nickname.. tho I dunno what more you could create for a basketball game? Maybe a whole new team or something and a cheat to get max points, you have to win 4 games in a row to 2 new atributes... ok if you have a memory card, but it sucks if you dont and all data is lost when the machine is turned. Why does it use a memory card???? The SNES versions never needed to use them, and it takes up little space on the memory card, enough to have been in a battery backup option.

Overall I'd much rather be playing the much funner versions on the SNES then this one... I dont like that there is no "unlimitd on fire" or "unlimited team fire" cheat. The code "461" does enable a cool out=door, street style court to play on which is a lot easier on your eyes then the red and orange of the usualy looking indoor courts (codes hold left, block, block ...[<200])... but unless you are playing this game with 4 people then its no fun. probably a lot of fun with a game shark, but not on its own.. and when you get through the 29 teams, there is no cool ending like on the SNES one where it showed video things of real dunks... this one just rolls credits and says thanks for letting us waste your time.

Hang Time was the newest incarnation of the very popular and ongoing NBA JAM series except now it went a little more high scale because it takes the NBA on NBC jingles, videos and of course the stills and visuals of the NBA on NBC TV programming.

Like all NBA JAMs, totally outrageous basketball from start to finish. You can expect anything and everything in this one from more out of this world dunks to being "On Fire" shooting and of course the newly added alley oops and free throws. Yes that's right, no more shoving your opponents all over the place because now they get 2 foul shots, each worth 3 points a piece (and even Shaq can hit these free throws!)

You can even create your own character and build that character to be the best as you take on the entire NBA in 2 on 2 mayhem. You also get to answer NBA trivia (just like on TV during games). Pretty cool.

I'd get this one because I personally think that this is NBA JAM at it's best. Very fun and also very cool to play with friends. Especially if you and a friend are good enough to pull off the triple alley oop pass for Team Fire. Again, check it out!

Another lousey boring basketball game. where do they come up with these games. this game was stupid.