The original nba jam arcade game generated revenue of over $1 billion in quarters in its first year. Even by the 1990s, arcades were starting to move away from having you put quarters directly into the machines. Nba jam (video game 1993) - in early 1994, the amusement & music operators association reported that nba jam had become the highest-earning arcade game of all time, creating revenue of $1 billion. However, it was the release of nba jam that brought mainstream success to the genre. The gameplay of nba jam is based on arch rivals, which was also a 2-on-2 basketball game; A lot of that revenue was most likely obtained from tokens, which were in turn purchased using larger currency denominations. · the company also created mortal kombat, the comic book-style animated fighting game and would go on to dabble in more sport games like nfl blitz, nba showtime and nba hangtime for coin-operated arcade machines. · according to some estimates, the game took in about $1. 1 billion in its first year, and was one of the first to generate $2 billion in revenue strictly from quarters (space invaders was the first. Probably fewer than 4 billion quarters. · nba jam earned profits of over $1 billion dollars during its original arcade run, rivaling the box office success of jurassic park.
