EA SportsShaq returns to "NBA Jam" as one of the game's legends.If you worked as an intern for the Orlando Magic back in 1993, chances are, your job consisted of packing up and shipping Shaquille O'Neal's "NBA Jam" arcade machine from city to city as the team hit the road.
That's right, before players packed an Xbox in their luggage, a guy like Shaq, who found himself addicted to "NBA Jam" for all of its "boomshakalaka!" greatness, actually brought a full arcade cabinet with him when the team traveled
"Yeah, I'd bring the machine on the road every now and then just because I loved playing so much," Shaq told me over the phone while playing a game of the new "Jam," "NBA Jam: On Fire Edition." "I remember back in the day I used to play as Chris Mullin against my boys, and I'd hit like 12 threes in a row and start yelling: 'He's on fire!'"
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