
As a result, basketball was made illegal and nearly all great players were killed in 'The Great B-Ball Purge of 2041' (a.k.a 'B-Ballnacht')."

Twelve years before the game, Charles Barkley, in order to win his first game attended by his then-infant son Hoopz Barkley, performs the first Chaos Dunk-and inadvertently kills almost everyone present. "The game takes place in a post-cyberpocalyptic New York called 'Neo New York', after a 'chaos dunk' causes the death of millions. An excerpt from the Wikipedia article on the game: Games like this are typically lost forever in the annals of bad 16-bit-era gaming history, but in 2008 an indy game developer called Tales of Game's Studios augmented the original Barkley and created Japanese role-playing game called Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa. It all starts with a largely forgettable NBA Jam ripoff called Barkley Shut Up and Jam, released for Sega Genesis, SNES, & Atari Jaguar in 1994:Īs you can see, it's basically a street-oriented, poor man's Jam. Here's a hilariously bizarre layup for all mid-1990s NBA/video game fans:īarkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaĬrazy amounts of backstory here.
