NBA Jam sur Game Gear est le premier jeu de basket à proposer de jouer avec des joueurs professionnels mais avec les règles de la rue. Les matches se disputent donc en deux contre deux et les fautes sont presque absentes. En revanche, les actions sont volontairement irréalistes, afin de pouvoir admirer ses stars de NBA préférées réaliser des dunks de plusieurs mètres de hauteur, tout en faisant des figures spectaculaires.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
