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BSUJ let Barkley play with real life NBA stars. Where the original took place on small, squeaky courts, Gaiden took players into sugar mines, forgotten tombs, abandoned ball factories, Proto Neo New York, and dimensions devoted entirely to basketball. 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 might mean a lot of the “borrowed” assets and characters from the last game might need to be replaced, but I have faith the series’ ballin’ spirit will live on.Charles Barkley lives in Neo New York: a shattered city, ruined by 2041's Cyberpocalypse. A Kickstarter will going up soon, which means this chapter may end up being an actual game you have to pay for and stuff. You can download the game here.Īnyways, I’m pretty jazzed to report that the makers of Barkley: Gaiden are working on a sequel, The Magical Realms of Tír na nÓg: Escape from Necron 7 – Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie – Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa.

It was an era when stuff like Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City really did happen - nobody at the time would’ve batted an eye at an RPG starring Sir Charles Barkley. The game is completely ridiculous and yet feels like something that could have actually existed on the SNES or Genesis back in 1994. You’ve all played Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, right? Well, just in case you haven’t, Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden (full name - Tales of Game’s Presents Chef Boyardee’s Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa) is a fan made sequel to the Genesis “classic” Barkley, Shut Up and Jam, the movie Space Jam and uh, maybe Shaq Fu too? Phew, that’s a lot of italics.īasically the game is a surprisingly competent mash-up of two mid-90s mainstays - 16-bit Square-developed RPGs and basketball star vanity games of questionable quality.