A Detroit Pistons Fan Programmed NBA Jam and Snuck in the Ultimate Piece of Petty Code

If you grew up in the 90s like me, you definitely spent a ton of money at the local arcade or stayed up way too late playing NBA Jam on your Sega or Super Nintendo.

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You remember the announcer screaming "HE'S ON FIRE!" and players leaping twenty feet in the air to shatter the backboard.

At the time, I was a huge Shawn Kemp and Seattle SuperSonics fan so I would always play with them as my main team, and all the other times I would be the Detroit Pistons.

So many times against my friends or playing against the game I would win or lose a game on a last second buzzer beater.

When I played as the Detroit Pistons, one team that never seemed to make a buzzer beater against me was the Chicago Bulls.

It turns out it wasn't happening when I played. The game was actually rigged!

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The lead developer of NBA Jam was a guy named Mark Turmell, and he grew up right here in Michigan as a massive Detroit Pistons fan.

He absolutely hated the Bulls.

During the early 90s, the Pistons-Bulls rivalry was as heated as it gets, and Mark just couldn't stand seeing Chicago win.

So he snuck in a secret piece of code deep into the game's programming.

Whenever the Bulls played the Pistons, the game would automatically tweak the code in the final seconds.

If the Bulls took a shot right at the buzzer to win or tie the game against Detroit, the code forced the ball to brick off the rim.

I love that he did this and now is sharing it with everyone.

I'm glad I'm not a Bulls fan or I might have broken a few controllers.

NBA Jam had a hidden code that made the Chicago Bulls miss last-second shots against the Detroit Pistons. The creator was a Pistons fan.
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