Customer Reviews

NBA Jam 99

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

 

 

This game has great comentary,players,and swift cool moves.The create a player mode is one of the best I have ever seen.I would recomend this game to any NBA fan!

The trading feature in NBA Jam 99 has a trading standard restriction. The game play is frustrating. I don't ever want to play NBA Jam 99 again. An NBA video game with a non-restrictive trading feature would be a lot better. Spending time with playing and trading players in NBA Jam 99 was a waste of my time. It was the lousiest NBA video game that I've ever played.

First of all, I am pretty disapointed that this version of NBA JAM does not inculde the classic 2 on 2 style from the original and best NBA JAM games. This version is much like the NBA LIVE games and it's all 5 on 5 regular basketball. If you want the NBA JAM classic 2 on 2 game, I recomend the SNES versions. Dont even bother with NBA Hangtime, that game was rejected out of the arena.

Coming to terms with the fact that this is 5 on 5, I gave it a go and overall, i'm not thrilled with it.

This game is basicly the typical basketball game. It has a season mode, with drafts, trades, ceate a player etc.. but thats on just about every BBall game anyway. Then there is Jam mode, which is just an exhibition mode. And then there is a useless skills game to choose, where you pick either a 3 point shoot-out, which there is no stratagy to, it's boring and there is no real challenge to it but to just work out the timing of when to release the button when shooting. And there is also a free throw option, which makes no sense to choose random players, 'cause you only get to shoot as one. Its just a free throw practice, but it does however have an interesting stratagy to make a free throw that I do like better then a lot of other games ways. You have to use the stick to position a picture of a ball, inside a pic of a hoop (not tht easy) and then hit the shoot button.

There is the typical options, of real play to turning whatever option you want on and off.

The gameplay itself is no fun. The intros are annoying, and tho you can skip them, it would be nice to have an option to skip them automaticly. the tip off seems to have no real way of winning it, just mash the buttons I guess. Dribbling sucks because you can't stnd still for 1 second without the computer stealing the ball or pushing you over, and most of the time the computer plays a full court press and gets the ball when you inbound it, making it so annoying. Shots just do not want to go in. If you try to dunk, you'll most likely get blocked if a computer player is near you. If you try to go for a break-a-way, the computer will shove you, even if it's 1000 feet away from you.

The only way I was able to enjoy this game for a breif time was using these codes..then it made it a bit better.

Garenteed to make next shot (within offense half court)
Pause the game and press, L L (C^) L L (C^) L L (C^) Z

Dunk From Anywhere (individual player you use when entering code)
Pause the game and press, L L (Cv) L L (Cv) L L (cV) Z

Tie The Score
Pause the game and press, L L Down L L Down L L Down Z

Whole Team Is On Fire
Pase the game and press, L L Right L L Right L L Right Z

There are other codes at www.gamefaq.com

With those cheats the game became a bit better when shots would actualy go in for a change. The on fire code was badly needed. It was good to be able to use anybody and knock a 3 pointer in from anywhere within the offensive half court zone. Some shots would even go from the half court line. The dunk from anywhere code is OK, but there is an annoying dunk where the player bounces the ball first then takes off a second later, and that one is a garenteed steal for the computer if there defending you and close enough.

There is no Michael Jordan in the game, the PG for the bulls is Jordan, but it's player number 99, just like a lot of other games. I might be wrong about this, but there is no way to edit a created player once you've created them. The whole game needs a memory pak and uses the whole thing up.

Overall, I think this game is better then NBA Hangtime, but I do wish this one had an out-door court. It is almost the same as NBA LIVE, only there is the NBA JAM style of B.S dunks, and on fire etc... and it's a bit better then those Kobe Court Side games. But still, compared to the old SNES BBall games, these games might have better sound and graphics, but the game play and fun factor havent been found on the 64.

This is a good game if there's a lot of people at your house, but the Season mode does't live up to its NBA Jam predecessors. It also uses every space on a normal memory card,so don't buy this game unless you need every basketball game on earth.

i love this game. it's fun to play . but it takes practice to make the shots. when i first started to plai it i suckeed and i taught it was boring. but now i love the game and i play it everyday. i think who ever created thid game should think of making a new one. maybe nba jam 2002./ they should make it just like nba jam 99. not nba jam 2000...

This game has some of the best cheats, most awesome moves, and a great training area. The big (and I do mean BIG) problem is the fact that it takes up an entire memory pack just for this game. I bought "The World Is Not Enough" and it takes up only 2 pages (image that!) of memory. This biotch is so outdated that it takes up all 121 pages. And anything you want to save must be on a memory pack! Forget about a season, it can't even keep the name of your favorite team in Exhibition. A typical Nintendo Memory Pak costs about 10 bucks! That is almost more than the game! Unless you have a constant supply of memory paks, don't even consider buying this!

okay nba jam is not the greatest game in the world but it does have positive features like it has really good graphics. It has decent sound for a N64 game. The season mode will keep you busy for a while it has an in-depth trades, stat-tracking, and fantasy draft. Imagine having a team with Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Kevin Garnett, Shaq, and Tracy McGrady. The only problems is the computer is kind of stupid, the game doesn,t have the speed of most basketball game. It's too slow. The jam mode is pretty stupid also. If you stick with the sim mode, and you can put up with the game's speed, you're gonna get a darn good game

Horrible. The gameplay is trash and I have only made a 3-pionter in 1 time with Tim Duncan for the whole time I rented it. There are way to many fouls and the players on your team are idiots. You can't charge the basket because your get stopped.

This game was a lesson learned. It was extreemly too hard to play and you couldn't even change that. But perhaps that was because there might have been something wrong with the version I rented and/or the instruction manual was missing. Anyhow, I'm glad it was just a rental. I'd rather have a normal version of a game to own, not to mention an INSTRUCTON MANUAL (I'm mad at whoever threw that away). The fact that you couldn't change the difficulty of the game was a BIG detraction from the fun. That's why I liked NBA Courtside Featuring Kobe Bryant a lot better. It was a whole lot easier and funner. Buy Courtside if you want an easier version to play, but buy this game if you don't care about not being able to win ever but just want to *TRY* to play.