Magic Johnson's Fast Break and NBA Jam

I did another ten game purchase from PedroGames.Com.  There was nothing too exciting to report, however I did make an interesting observation with Magic Johnson's Fast Break.

I don't particularly like sports games, but there is the occasional sports video game I will play for good or ill.  The Fast Break purchase was a necessity since I am still trying to collect them all, but I certainly would not go out of my way to play this this title.

I also don't know anything about Magic Johnson, except I remember it being a big deal that he had HIV, and on two seperate occasions I ran into him at McCarran airport in Las Vegas.  The first was at the ticketing counter and the second was him departing a Southwest airlines plane a 2am.  He was one of the last people to depart and he seemed prepared to sign autographs but nobody seemed to care and he shrugged his shoulders and wandered off to the baggage claim.

Anyways, this Fast Break game could have been easily modified to be an NES version of NBA Jam.



NBA Jam was pretty neat at the time. Initially released in the Arcade it had an all star line up with digitized images of all of the playable players, plus codes and other stupid tricks would unlock other players (like the Clintons above)

Besides being a two-on-two basketball game like NBA Jam with a similiar feel, Fast Break has one other cool thing: PEPSI