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. But – and this should already be clear from the details above – Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden is absolutely insane. It's the standard JRPG format, and beyond a few innovations in the attack system, doesn't expand hugely on the template. When meeting an enemy, the screen shifts into a side on view of the forthcoming battle: played out with turn-based attacks selected from each member of your group's unique move-pool. Barkley is the player's main character, but is joined throughout his travels by another three companions. Looking to casual observers like a relic from Japan's 1995 Super-Nintendo catalogue, the game's party setup and battle system will be familiar to anyone who's ever tangled with a Final Fantasy game. Since that day, Charles Barkley has had to live in the city of Neo New York, knowing that he's the sole reason his beloved sport is expressly banned.įor unhinged indie collective Tales of Game's (the apostrophe is entirely intentional), Barkley's dunk-less world is best represented in a top-down lo-fi role-playing game. In focusing all of his basketball energies to impress his infant son Hoopz, Charles leapt in the air, performing a slam dunk so utterly awesome that everyone in the crowd was killed outright, bar his baby boy. In 2041, during the last seconds of a game his team were about to lose, Barkley performed a Chaos Dunk. He just wanted to forget, but it was Barkley that got the world into this mess.
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