Harlem Globetrotters to featured in video game as part of centennial season

The Harlem Globetrotters volition merchandise a video crippled aboriginal this twelvemonth arsenic the legendary squad celebrates its centennial season, Acclaim announced connected Monday.

"Super Basketball Classics Featuring the World-Famous Harlem Globetrotters" is acceptable to springiness sports fans the quality to prime up and play whether they’re connected a PC oregon console.

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Globetrotters lukewarm up arsenic fans enjoyed legendary antics during the Harlem Globetrotters 100 Years of Legacy circuit astatine Exactech Areana astatine the Steven C. O'Connell Center successful Gainesville, Florida, connected Monday, Jan. 12, 2026.  ] (Alan Youngblood/Gainesville Sun)

"We combined a batch of things but it’s prime up and play and truthful whether it’s a half-court changeable from astir retired of bounds oregon up successful the stands and each the interaction, you’re going to person the wow factor, which I deliberation that for a feline who sits down and conscionable wants to crippled for a small portion disconnected his couch, that’s important," pro wrestling legend, and laminitis of the revived Acclaim company, Jeff Jarrett told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview.

"We’re going to integrate arsenic galore elements arsenic we tin and it’s fun. At the extremity of the day, you travel to a Harlem Globetrotters amusement live, aforesaid arsenic the game, we privation you to person amusive and bask yourself."

Jarrett is mostly known for his prowess successful the quadrate ellipse for respective decades. But it was his emotion for hoops that led him down the way of getting a caller Globetrotters crippled started.

The existent All Elite Wrestling prima said his archetypal "true love" was hoops – adjacent earlier pro wrestling.

Splash Blount (38) of the Harlem Globetrotters interacts with fans during a crippled against the Washington Generals arsenic portion of a 100th-season circuit halt connected Dec. 30, 2025, astatine the Resch Center successful Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin. (Sarah Kloepping/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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"But the Globetrotters are a wholly antithetic communicative for me," helium explained. "I could retrieve going arsenic a small kid. Meadowlark Lemon and Curly (Neal) and each the celebrated players, I wanted to beryllium similar them due to the fact that the swagger, the style, the showmanship on with the crippled of basketball. We’re celebrating on with the full satellite due to the fact that it’s acold reaching from basketball, the Globetrotter brand.

"It’s the centennial celebration, the 100th year, which I deliberation is truly unthinkable due to the fact that a batch of radical don’t understand. When you get into the DNA, the archetypal squad inducted into the Naismith (Basketball) Hall of Fame, it wasn’t some, you know, a squad that went undefeated, it’s the Harlem Globetrotters …

"So erstwhile you harvester the crippled of hoops successful its truest sense, but past you harvester the showmanship and a batch of folks, whether it’s football, basketball, baseball, hockey, immoderate it whitethorn be, there’s touchdown celebrations and slam dunk celebrations and slap shots and each that benignant of stuff. The Globetrotters are the pioneer, truly, of sports amusement erstwhile it truly relates to truthful galore things, not conscionable the satellite of basketball."

Basketball fans volition beryllium capable to get an arcade-style crippled and person the accidental to spell done a afloat season, play with their friends oregon dazzle the crowd.

Harlem Globetrotter Bulldog Mack (5) interacts with a instrumentality during the Harlem Globetrotters 100 Years of Legacy circuit astatine Exactech Areana astatine the Steven C. O'Connell Center successful Gainesville, Florida, connected Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (Alan Youngblood/Gainesville Sun)

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"The Harlem Globetrotters are synonymous with hoops and entertainment," Acclaim CEO Alex Josef said successful a quality release. "This crippled celebrates that tone portion honoring the classical arcade hoops experiences fans grew up loving portion gathering a full caller procreation of fans, for years to come. With choky controls, large personalities and instant pick-up & play action, Super Basketball Classics brings the Harlem Globetrotters bequest to gamers and sports fans astir the world."