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. Tales of Game’s Studios Presents Chef Boyardee’s Barkley, Shut Up & Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa.He just wanted to forget, but it was Barkley that got the world into this mess. Joined by allies along the way, including his son Hoopz, Barkley must face the dangers of a life he thought he gave up a long time ago and discover the secrets behind the terrorist organization B.L.O.O.D.M.O.S.E.S.Ī tale of zaubers, b-balls, and atonement brave dangers unheard of, face spectacular challenges that even the greatest ballers could not overcome, and maybe… just maybe… redeem basketball once and for all in: When the finger is put on the aging Charles Barkley, he must evade the capture of the B-Ball Removal Department, led by former friend and baller Michael Jordan, and disappear into the dangerous underground of the post-cyberpocalypse to clear his name and find out the mysterious truth behind the Chaos Dunk. A Chaos Dunk rocks the island of Manhattan, killing 15 million.
Among the few ballers and fans that survived the basketball genocide was Charles Barkley, the man capable of performing the “Verboten Jam”…įlash forward 12 years to the post-cyberpocalyptic ruins of Neo New York, 2053. The reason: the Chaos Dunk, a jam so powerful its mere existence threatens the balance of chaos and order.
Thousands upon thousands of the world’s greatest ballers were massacred in a swath of violence and sports bigotry as the game was outlawed worldwide. The Great B-Ball Purge of 2041, a day so painful to some that it is referred to only as the “B-Ballnacht”.
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