‘NBA Jam’ video game designer rigged Bulls to lose close games to Pistons

CHICAGO — You have to love the irony: A video game designer working for Chicago-based Midway Games in the 1990s tweaked “NBA Jam” so the Chicago Bulls would experience loss in heartbreaking fashion against their most hated rival, the Detroit Pistons.The 1993 arcade game pitted NBA players in two-on-two matchups. Former Midway designer and Pistons fan Mark Turmell told Ars Technica that if a Bulls-Pistons contest ever came close to a buzzer-beater, he programmed Bulls players Scottie Pippen or Horace Grant to miss the shot against the Pistons’ pairing of Isiah Thomas and Bill Laimbeer.“Making t…

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