For a bball-playing tweenager in 1994, NBA Jam was peak - I remember pumping quarters into this cab at the arcade! Then it hit home consoles 🤯… I was (am) a Nintendo kid - SNES at the time.

Love this game and have been hunting for it in a high grade for awhile - just won at auction last week… felt right to snap a pic sitting on top of the NBA Jam cab (Arcade1Up) in my office.

Boomshakalacka! 🔥

Somehow this VIP pass hit one of my eBay saved searches… I’d classify as “didn’t know I wanted it until I saw it” 😂 The Jam Session graphic immediately brought back good vibes - it’s also present on an NBA Jam arcade cabinet I have. More 90s NBA memories for me! Took a pic of the pass hanging from the cabinet.

Even if you don’t think you know these shots, you know these shots 😆

Man the MJ era was so great… 90s NBA was something special!

…which can be unfortunate for your wallet 😂 (everything here is a tough resell if I move on!) - but I thought this picture captured that essence. Bball and Nintendo were core to my childhood… lot of 🏀, lot of games at MSG (Knicks and Big East / St John’s college ball) - and loved playing sports games 🕹 with my bro.

Here’s to the early/mid 90s 🍻

Would love to know what people think of this - particularly since Mantel is mostly card-focused. Did you even know graded games were a thing? Does the PSA rebrand immediately add (more) legitimacy and staying power to the hobby? I love it 😁 Sure, I have some comments on the label but generally love the direction and combined with the recent magazine addition PSA really is becoming the go-to across most categories I collect, which is cool just for consistency.