This may very well be old news for everyone save for me, but EA Sports is bringing back NBA Jam, this time exclusively for the Nintendo Wii.  Happy New Year indeed, people.

I’m 30 years old.  What does that mean besides suddenly having to trim previously nonexistent ear hair and realizing my 9 year old is arguably smarter than me?  It means NBA Jam was right in the wheelhouse of my youth, that I spent untold amounts of time and money fine-tuning my game, entering cheat codes, and dropping high-voiced f-bombs as my friends and brothers and I did battle on an all too frequent basis.

NBA Jam!  The greatest arcade game ever created, and arguably a top ten Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis game of any genre.   And it’s coming back!  Along with MarioKart 64 and GoldenEye, it still makes weirdos like myself (and the dude who created this quiz) reminisce a simpler time, when ear hair, mortgages, and beer bellies were foreign concepts.

An update has been a long time coming, and there’s a chance to see what I think would be the most formidable NBA Jam duo ever trotted out:  Steve Nash and Amar’e Stoudemire.

• deadly 3-point accuracy? CHECK
• unmatched dunking ability? CHECK
• no semblance of defensive prowess whatsoever? CHECK

Make it happen, EA Sports.  Stand pat, Steve Kerr.