If you miss the old NBA Jam games, this new Harlem Globetrotters game looks like a slam dunk

If you miss the old NBA Jam games, this new Harlem Globetrotters game looks like a slam dunk | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Games All Playground Basketball codes for March 2026: coins Roguelike Slay the Spire 2 dev says its Marathon joke turned out ‘a bit meaner than expected’ in hindsight: ‘To be fair I didn’t think we’d actually pass Marathon in concurrent users’ Card Game Please send help: We can’t stop opening packs in Wikigacha, a browser-based card game where you collect Wikipedia articles like ‘List of Red Hot Chili Peppers band members’ or ‘Bariatric Surgery’ Action Before Doom, there was Dangerous Dave, and John Romero’s 8-bit hero is getting a spiritual successor next week Games The best free PC games FPS Citing Halo, FEAR, and Half-Life 2 as inspirations, Sprawl: Zero waves goodbye to boomer shooters and heralds the arrival of the Millennial FPS Games The best browser games Platforms Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 9, 2026) Racing One coder’s ‘winter madness project’ was making the Dreamcast-era cityscapes of Crazy Taxi explorable in our browsers Adventure The world’s first ‘standardized gaming test’ will see if you can beat an ’80s adventure game without a walkthrough—and it’ll even monitor you over a webcam to make sure you don’t cheat Games Time Takers is an era-mashup lightning-fast survival shooter with a beta test you can dive into next month Games New games 2025: The year’s PC game releases Sports I’m extending the Winter Olympics for a few more hours by playing 1985 sports classic Winter Games Roguelike The makers of idle farming sensation Rusty’s Retirement have announced a new game, and this one’s taking over your whole screen Platforms Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 2, 2026) PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!MarathonArc RaidersBest PC gearQuizzes Games Sports If you miss the old NBA Jam games, this new Harlem Globetrotters game looks like a slam dunk News By Christopher Livingston published 9 March 2026 The Globetrotters are celebrating a century of basketball swagger with a new game. 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter I’d have bet money that the Harlem Globetrotters were founded in the 1960s or maybe the ’70s, but nope: today I learned the madcap basketball exhibition team has been around for a solid century, formed in 1926 as The Savoy Big Five (and in Chicago, not New York).To celebrate 100 years of baffling basketball trickery, the Globetrotters have unveiled a new game: Super Basketball Classics, a retro-style basketball game filled with trick plays and slam dunks. Here’s the teaser: Super Basketball Classics | Reveal Teaser – YouTube Watch On “From playground rivalries to cheat-code-style moves, Super Basketball Classics Featuring the World-Famous Harlem Globetrotters reimagines basketball as both competitive arcade action and pure spectacle,” says developer Acclaim.Article continues below You may like That golf game with orbital death lasers sold 100k copies in two days: ‘We made Super Battle Golf together in 4.5 months and are so happy’ Super Battle Golf improves the world’s least interesting sport by letting you blast your competitors with orbital lasers I’m extending the Winter Olympics for a few more hours by playing 1985 sports classic Winter Games “Whether players are running a full season, challenging friends head-to-head, or dazzling the crowd with over-the-top Globetrotter performances, every match is designed to feel like a show.”Unfortunately, the teaser shows more of the real Globetrotters in action than it does actual gameplay, but the screenshots and gifs on the Steam page are promising: the throwback looks remind me of classic 16-bit games like NBA Jam, and Acclaim promises the game is filled with “over-the-top moves, alley-oops, half-court bombs, and dunk animations that feel straight out of a Globetrotters performance.”That’s an easy layup for me: I never saw the Harlem Globetrotter’s live but when I was growing up they always seemed to be on TV, torturing the poor Washington Generals with their trick plays—and I’d jump at the chance to step into their shoes and do a bit of fancy footwork myself.The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware dealsKeep up to date with the mo