{"id":7321,"date":"2012-05-05T09:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T23:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2014-05-13T12:13:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T02:13:47","slug":"nba-jam-on-fire-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=7321","title":{"rendered":"NBA Jam: On Fire Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nbajamofe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7322\" title=\"nbajamofe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nbajamofe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nbajamofe.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nbajamofe-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Platform:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>Playstation 3<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<strong>Developer:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/strong><em>EA Canada<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<strong>Publisher:\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><em> EA Games<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>rcade sports titles and basketball video games owe a great deal of their heritage to the <em>NBA Jam<\/em> franchise, a once great series that I can remember playing extensively on the Super Nintendo and Sega MegaDrive.\u00a0 The game&#8217;s accessible arcade gameplay and snappy Nineties one-liners (&#8216;BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA&#8217;) gave it a charm that meant long after the franchise became dormant, people were still fondly pining for a new installment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sometimes, you have to be careful what you wish for.\u00a0 EA Sports revived the <em>NBA Jam <\/em>franchise three years ago with a full retail release.\u00a0 Then last year they followed it up with a digital download version called <em>On Fire Edition<\/em> for $20.\u00a0 During a Christmas sale, I picked it up for $10.\u00a0 Using a free PSN voucher I got with <em>Uncharted 3<\/em>.\u00a0 I still feel slightly ripped off.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine what it&#8217;d be like to pay a full $100 for this game when it was first re-released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The presentation of the game is nice enough and the boom-shaka-lakking is still there.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just that in 2012, the gameplay feels shallower than a 99 cent iPhone game.\u00a0 You just take turns dribbling the ball to the other end of the court before pressing two buttons to do an over-the-top slam dunk.\u00a0 The gameplay is tissue-thin in depth.\u00a0 Winning a game against a friend feels almost completely up to chance.\u00a0 Back then, it was enough.\u00a0 Nowadays, its aged pretty badly.\u00a0 Pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fireable offense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[1266,1952,1081,1265],"class_list":["post-7321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-gaming","tag-acclaim","tag-ea-games","tag-ea-sports","tag-nba-jam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14829,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions\/14829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}