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- If you're playingagainst the computer it's never going to allowyou to get too far in...

[NBA Jam music] - If you're playing
against the computer it's never going to allow
you to get too far in front

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[NBA Jam music]
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- If you're playing against the computer
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it's never going to allow you to get too far in front.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
45
Timestamp in Movie
00:55:17
Uploaded
May 31, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

The oral history of a team of geeks and misfits in the back of a Chicago factory creating the biggest video games (Mortal Kombat, NBA JAM, and others) of all time.
Or the computer will start missing shots a lot, - Insert Coin 00:05
Or the computer will start missing shots a lot,
So it doesn't allow the scores to get too far apart, - Insert Coin 00:08
So it doesn't allow the scores to get too far apart,
- If you're in the fourth quarter, - Insert Coin 00:21
- If you're in the fourth quarter,
- Rubberbanding is, - Insert Coin 00:16
- Rubberbanding is,
But also, it makes for really heightened moments - Insert Coin 00:05
But also, it makes for really heightened moments
- [Game] At the buzzer, he scores! - Insert Coin 00:04
- [Game] At the buzzer, he scores!
- We were getting calls about games that were broken. - Insert Coin 00:05
- We were getting calls about games that were broken.
I said, "What?" - Insert Coin 00:07
I said, "What?"
And to have a game that's not working, - Insert Coin 00:05
And to have a game that's not working,
- It had accumulated so many quarters, - Insert Coin 00:09
- It had accumulated so many quarters,
At all of our test locations, - Insert Coin 00:13
At all of our test locations,
- Jurassic Park was the biggest film at the time, - Insert Coin 00:07
- Jurassic Park was the biggest film at the time,
And that was a milestone that people said - Insert Coin 00:07
And that was a milestone that people said
And here comes NBA Jam, and Mark said, I said, - Insert Coin 00:08
And here comes NBA Jam, and Mark said, I said,
"NBA Jam made a billion dollars." - Insert Coin 00:16
"NBA Jam made a billion dollars."
- And when people were playing together, - Insert Coin 00:07
- And when people were playing together,
- Whereas some games are abstract, - Insert Coin 00:11
- Whereas some games are abstract,
That becomes a very appealing thing to people - Insert Coin 00:10
That becomes a very appealing thing to people
[game announcer yelling] - Insert Coin 00:04
[game announcer yelling]
John Tobias - The home versions of the early Mortal Kombat games - Insert Coin 00:05
John Tobias - The home versions of the early Mortal Kombat g...