2008's Gaiden was a top-down RPG that took its cues from obscure cult Japanese games. 1994's Barkley was an arcade sports sim, apeing the popular NBA Jam in mechanics. Barkley Shut Up and Jam! was a game about basketball and so was Gaiden, but in a very different way. A sequel was released the following year.īarkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden was released in 2008. It was a basketball game, and starred that year's most valuable NBA player: the titular Charles Barkley. He accidentally destroyed the world as we know it with a Chaos Dunk: a slam dunk so dunktacular that it killed everyone who witnessed it – everyone but Barkley's young son Hoopz.īarkley Shut Up and Jam! was developed by Accolade and released in 1994 on the SNES and Mega Drive. This is tightly scripted and well thought out.Charles Barkley lives in Neo New York: a shattered city, ruined by 2041's Cyberpocalypse. More should focus on characters we can relate to. Less RPGs of this quality should be set in make-believe lands. That age group will hands-down love this game. Couple that with some swearing and you've got a game targeted at a very specific demographic. Even if it wasn't an RPG, the setting is crammed with backstory and in-jokes from a bygone era, rendering the entire thing a lost joke on children. Needless to say, the game is not for kids. Bitterness which he is all too eager to display. Apart from that the sarcastic game-hating "vidcon" save points and the bizarre characters, its emotion - mainly shown through Barkley - is one of bitterness. It's a pretty heavy game - if you can get past the ridiculous title, ludicrous setting and often times hilarious dialogue. Years later Barkley lives with his son, along with the shame and regret of his past actions.
The result was everyone present died instantly and basketball was outlawed. which features basketballer Charles Barkley.īarkley, the only one capable of pulling off a move reported to be as powerful as a 150 megaton nuclear blast - once performed the dreaded Chaos Dunk.
The game takes on from a game called Barkley: Shut Up and Jam! which was a sporting title featuring basketballer Charles Barkley. but that just seems too silly to reproduce in full. The fullest possible title for this game is: Tales of Game's Presents Chef Boyardee's Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa.
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