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About a year ago, we told you about the fan-made RPG Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, which is a spiritual cousin to the 16-bit classic Barkley: Shut Up and Jam!. I LOL'd; you LOL'd. We moved on. Now Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa is available for download.
 
The story follows an aged Charles Barkley. It was his insanely powerful Chaos Dunk that led to the outlawing of basketball and the massacre of the world's greatest ballers. Twelve years later in 2053, Neo New York is hit by a Chaos Dunk, and Barkley is blamed for the destruction. This forces him to go underground to escape Michael Jordan and his B-Ball Removal Department. He sets out on a journey to find who was behind this Chaos Dunk as well as discover the secrets behind the terrorist organization B.L.O.O.D.M.O.S.E.S.
 
The game looked pretty nifty last year, but it has since seen a bit of a visual upgrade thanks to the power of DX10. I'm only about one hour into the game, but I've laughed about 20 times in that hour. No one should expect a next-gen RPG -- this is RPGMaker, folks. What you can expect is a silly, fun game with a battle system that is so stupid that its actually brilliant. 
 
If battling through a post-cyberpocalyptic world with basketball powers is your thing, you can download Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden at Tales of Game's temporary page.

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Andrex's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 11:29
Andrex
IVe seen Sadie G cover this already.. but now interested actually trying it soon.. after a finish columbine RPG
moonkid's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 11:30
moonkid
The game looks amazingly fun and yeah it was C-blogged yesterday.
martinine's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 11:32
martinine
This game is amazingly fun
timtheterrible's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 11:48
timtheterrible
Fun this game looks
CaffeinePowered's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 11:48
CaffeinePowered
Sweet
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 12:07
Holyetheline
I'm stoked to play this crap.
F Whipple's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 12:51
F Whipple
the prenise is so bad that it's genius
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 12:51
Cheeburga
Kick ass.
Snaileb 's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 12:52
Snaileb
If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest.

Plus Ecto Cooler is an item! How cool!
Rucksack's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 13:02
Rucksack
Jaming!
UreshiiShonen's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 13:20
UreshiiShonen
I loved the original demo. It's also cool how the basic attacks require skill and timing to deal good damage with.
ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 14:06
ArrestedDeveloper
I actually downloaded this earlier this week, it's pretty funny. The only part I don't like about it is every time you save you get a speech on how Japanese developers are better than western developers and that madden is stupid, it gets a little old.
UMF Skibum's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 14:17
UMF Skibum
Man, this is my lucky day. I thought they stopped making games aimed at me after Shaq Fu and Michael Jordan in Chaos in the Windy City.
Im OK's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 15:38
Im OK
I played the demo of this, and it was pretty cool. I'll be checking this one out soon.
Batthink's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 16:42
Batthink
That looks good. Charles Barkley should promo this. :O)
DryvBy's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 17:08
DryvBy
This is awesome. Better than Chuck Norris.
Pacman's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 17:35
Pacman
Heard about this the other day and downloaded it. I'll probably get to it around mid-March though.

But hey, it looks cool.
Hamsizzla's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 18:43
Hamsizzla
That is fucking brilliant. I bet if you had slapped the word portal on it everyone else on the site would think so too!
enfaw's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 18:45
enfaw
anyone ever seen space jam?
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 20:02
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain
In before Lemon and Riser.

Holy shit.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 20:11
Necros
Best game ever?
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/24/2008 20:47
MechaMonkey
This if proof there is a God.
Wedge's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/25/2008 01:30
Wedge
Oh lawd. I finally got this running right and it's awesome.
Fading Star's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/25/2008 07:17
Fading Star
.....
:D
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