Still, it’s fun, hilarious and actually takes a good amount of strategy to finish. The game isn’t actually approved by Barkley and was made by amateur game creators, and there’s a ton of swearing. It sounds strange but I couldn’t stop playing and ended up beating it in around three days. Oh, also, half robotic Vince Carter helps you out. Now Barkley needs to find his son Hoopz and stop a villainous group led by Michael Jordan. Then, in 2053, someone performs another Chaos Dunk, killing millions in the process. In 2041, Barkley did a dunk called the Chaos Dunk that accidentally killed almost everyone in the stadium (we should be terrified of ‘80s basketball stars in the future, apparently).

The Gaiden version is a fan-made Final Fantasy style RPG game feature Charles Barkley doing, well Charles Barkley things. I’m not talking about the Super Nintendo version.

Plus, the success of this series helped spawn NFL Street, one of my favorite sports games, period.īarkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden (PC-freeware) Playing it against a friend was always a good time. The amount of tricks you could string together was never ending. The second game of four in the series was widely popular, selling the sixth-most copies for a basketball game in video game history. The Gamebreakers, insane dribble moves, huge rejections the NBA Street series had everything you’d want in a basketball arcade game. NBA Street, Volume 2 (Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube) A lot of the good Looney Tunes characters are featured, the game play is simple and captivating, the soundtrack is fantastic, and it is just plain fun. It’s 2-on-2 basketball with gems the players can collect on the court to buy in-game power-ups and distractions. Sure it’s not for the hardcore basketball gamer or anyone over the age of 15 really, but I’ve never had anybody play this game and not love it.

Instead, what’s the best basketball game of all time? With 2K Sports owning the basketball video game market right now, it’s not much of a contest as to what the best basketball game currently is. Sometimes a video game drowns you in nostalgia, giving you no choice but to squeal with laughter at the memories of sheer joy you had with the game. It’s not a bad thing to be a child every once in a while.

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